Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

The presiding judge in the bankruptcy case involving Reverse Mortgage Investment Trust (RMIT) — the parent company of former leading reverse mortgage lender Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF) — has approved a request to transfer the company’s bankruptcy status to Chapter 7 from its current Chapter 11 status.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

Hometown Lenders has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Alabama, blaming the Federal Reserve’s policy to curb inflation for its debacle. Warehouse lender Flagstar Bank , which has a lawsuit filed against Hometown Lenders , has the largest unsecured claim, $20.1 million), investor Freddie Mac ($3.4

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

The bankruptcy plan administrator for Reverse Mortgage Investment Trust (RMIT), the parent company of former industry lender Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF), has filed a court petition to convert from Chapter 11 bankruptcy to Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2025

Mortgage veteran Glenn Stearns is taking a different approach with his latest venture. Kind Lending , a national wholesale mortgage lender and his second brainchild, is built on lean operations and a focus on efficiency — a contrast with his first company, Stearns Lending, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2019.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

In an era of high mortgage rates and stagnant home sales , a real estate transaction model is making waves by reintroducing and standardizing a once-popular financing method. Ive helped a lot of divorcees who have terrible credit and people that are a few months out of bankruptcy get into a home. Credit score isnt everything, he said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ordered TD Bank to pay $28 million for illegal actions that could tarnish consumer credit reports and for not taking timely action to correct its errors. The bank will pay $7.76 Regulators will need to focus major attention on TD Bank to change its course.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

One of the most unloved American economic success stories has been how spectacular American households with mortgage debt look today. As you can see below, when you lend to the capacity to own the debt, you should never see a rise in foreclosures or bankruptcies unless a job loss recession happens on a massive scale. Already a member?

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

A magistrate judge overseeing requests in a case against Ginnie Mae brought by Texas Capital Bank (TCB) has granted each side’s respective requests for an extension — one for a partial summary judgment for TCB, and the other for a change in venue by attorneys for the U.S. at the time of its 2022 bankruptcy. government.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

She had an association with Kind Lending before being hired as COO, as the company was a client of LendArch, the mortgage consulting firm she founded in 2021. Richards has a long history in leadership and executive roles in the mortgage industry. At the time of her hiring, she remained the CEO of LendArch. The case is still ongoing.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

government’s motion to stop the gathering of evidence in a case against Ginnie Mae , Texas Capital Bank (TCB) responded to the government’s attempt to dismiss the entirety of the bank’s complaint. The case stems from Ginnie Mae’s extinguishment of Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF) from its reverse mortgage-backed securities program.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

. $700 billion in taxpayer funds were authorized to help stabilize the economy in free fall in the wake of the Lehman bankruptcy and a mortgage market meltdown. The original plan — to buy up troubled mortgage assets — was quickly abandoned in favor of actions like capital infusions for banks and the bailout of our auto companies.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Bankrupt retail lender AmeriFirst Financial is seeking approval for a private sale of loans from a Delaware bankruptcy judge to pay off two warehouse lenders and fund restructuring costs. Law360 and National Mortgage News first reported on AmeriFirst’s motion seeking approval of loan sales. million to Centier Bank.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A 50-year-old former unlicensed mortgage broker from Long Island, New York, pleaded guilty Wednesday to defrauding clients and wholesale lenders out of $4.7 million in mortgage refinancing proceeds that were supposed to pay off existing client mortgages. Presented by: Flagstar Bank. Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

million settlement with Sprout Mortgage for unpaid wages goes through. million on mortgage purchase agreements. New Wave Lending Group , JMJ Financial Group and EF Mortgage filed on July 5 an involuntary petition against Sprout under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code in a New York court, claiming the lender owes $1.3

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), last week filed a slew of new documents in their court case against Texas Capital Bank (TCB). These were primarily in response to the bank’s prior motion for a partial summary judgment and offer reasons why the motion should be denied. The first filing made on Aug.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

Silvergate Capital Corporation , parent company of Silvergate Bank , which provided services to Sam Bankman-Fried’s now-collapsed crypto empire, walked away from its mortgage warehouse business and cut workforce by 20% as clients pulled $8.1 billion in crypto-related deposits. million in severance payments and $1.3

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2021

million to more than 5,300 home mortgage consultants to resolve a pair of class-action legal claims that allege wage-and-hour violations in California, according to the settlement agreement in federal court. Wells Fargo, the largest depository mortgage lender in America, has been plagued by scandals in recent years.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

One of the unsung heroes of the most prolonged economic and job expansion ever recorded in history was the passing of the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act and the 2010 qualified mortgage rule under Dodd-Frank. As we can see below, the bankruptcy levels were extremely high before the bankruptcy law was passed in 2005.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

When industry veteran Michael Strauss abruptly shut down Long Island-based Sprout Mortgage in early July, there was uproar. The lawsuits quickly came pouring in, but Strauss never did seek bankruptcy protection for Sprout or its affiliates. Michael Jeffrey Strauss registered a company called Smart Rate Mortgage, LLC.,

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

When assessing December’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) volume data for December 2023, Reverse Market Insight (RMI) used a choice word as the title for its commentary : “thud.” One of the top 10 lenders that posted gains, however, was Open Mortgage. This is a different situation.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Bank of America recently announced a loan for lower-income households that doesn’t require homebuyers to come up with a downpayment or closing costs, and doesn’t base the loan on a minimum FICO score. As you can see below, we haven’t had the mortgage credit boom like we saw during the housing bubble years.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

District Court for the Northern District of Texas , Ginnie Mae has filed its response to a lawsuit brought against it by Texas Capital Bank (TCB) saying the warehouse lender lacks standing and discounts the authority the government has to extinguish a lender from its reverse mortgage-backed securities program.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

While originations are down due to a volatile mortgage market, the population of underserved borrowers who require non-QM products is on the rise. The solution: Bank Statement loans. . Angel Oak’s Bank Statement loan is ideal for the self-employed. Loans up to $1.5

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2022

Likewise, Atlanta-based A ngel Oak Mortgage Inc. , a real estate investment trust focused on nonqualified mortgages, or non-QM, recently announced that it was struggling with red ink — recording a net loss of $52.1 a long-term player in the non-QM mortgage market. Redwood Trust Inc. , The Angel Oak Cos.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

Texas Capital Bank , after being granted an extension to respond to the federal government’s request to change the venue of the trial between the bank and Ginnie Mae , has filed an objection to the request saying that a “forum selection clause” cited by government attorneys is not enforceable.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2024

Attorneys for the federal government have issued an extensive new filing in the ongoing litigation between Texas Capital Bank (TCB) and Ginnie Mae , including a raft of correspondence that took place immediately prior to the seizure of the Reverse Mortgage Funding servicing portfolio by Ginnie Mae.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2021

In a comprehensive study of mortgage market liquidity, Liquidity Crises in the Mortgage Market , several well-known academics provided compelling evidence for “liquidity vulnerabilities associated with nonbanks.” Many of these firms experienced bankruptcies and closures similar to that of New Century.”. Similar results (2.57

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Mortgages Loans Bankruptcy Industrial 421

Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

Eric Hill, an Atlanta real estate agent representing a nationwide homebuilder, had a plan to help more than 100 homebuyers get mortgages. In the end, some $850,000 in claims had to be paid on defaulted government-backed mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). The problem: They did not qualify for the loans.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In the reflection, a mortgage executive sees faint images of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. The financial chaos that sparked the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, leading to a government bailout, now haunts the independent mortgage banking market this Halloween season — and beyond.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The lawsuit claimed the bank placed customers into these plans without notice, a direct violation of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. . a member of the Senate Banking Committee, pressed the bank for more details after the original allegations. Law360 reports that on Nov. Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s effort to temper inflation has cooled the housing market that remains subdued with mortgage rates north of 7%. While the central bank left the benchmark rate unchanged in the target range of 5.25%-5.5% Kim: Spreads in the mortgage space are wide. level, mortgage rates will probably run to 4.5%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2022

Mortgage operations veteran Suzy Lindblom was named chief operating officer at lender and servicer Arc Home this week. Lindblom joins the non-QM-focused lender following a stint at First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. where she was COO before the company declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy and folded.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Minneapolis-based CarVal Investors , a global alternative investment manager and long-time player in the mortgage market, has launched a real estate mortgage investment conduit, or REMIC, that plans to work with loan originators around the country to develop and acquire innovative nonagency mortgage products.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

A recently published report by the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) identified vulnerabilities at nonbank mortgage servicers that pose risks to financial stability. The attention on nonbank mortgage companies have increased since their expansion following the financial crisis of the late 2000s.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The first half of the year, with mortgage rates in the 3s and 4s, was like “Fast and Furious.” The number of home listings dried up , contracts were canceled , the few buyers still out there demanded concessions , mortgage rates spiked to 7% and homebuilder sentiment hit rock bottom. over asking price. High octane stuff.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

On Tuesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced it was looking into a situation with mortgage servicer Mr. Cooper after the company made unauthorized withdrawals from borrower accounts over the weekend due to a vendor error. Bank and PNC Bank.

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Bankruptcy Banks Title Mortgages 384

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Kind Lending , national wholesale mortgage lender and second brainchild to mortgage veteran Stearns, announced that the lender originated $1 billion in the first six months of production – a feat that took Stearns first company, Stearns Lending , 15 years to accomplish. Glenn Stearns is back, and not just on television.

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