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FAR parent updates investors on AAG integration, business performance

Housing Wire

The company also provides commentary for its fourth quarter 2023 financial performance, assesses its market advantages and offers an assessment of impacts stemming from changes in Ginnie Mae ’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Securities (HMBS) program.

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Reverse mortgage volume and securities issuance trend lower in December

Housing Wire

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. Beyond that will depend on what happens to rates.” This represents $15.6

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Ginnie Mae fires back over RMF lending suit, seeks case dismissal

Housing Wire

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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The 2022 housing market: A tale of two halves

Housing Wire

The first half of the year, with mortgage rates in the 3s and 4s, was like “Fast and Furious.” The Big Chill” or “Frozen,” says Green, principal at real estate law firm Polunsky Beitel Green. A mortgage rate lockdown freezes the housing market. Layoffs, LOs leaving the industry for good. over asking price.

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There’s more blood on the tracks in the non-QM market

Housing Wire

The latest non-QM player to feel the pain of the interest rate volatility afflicting the nation’s housing market this year is a Pasadena, California-based real estate investment trust called Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corp. The principal balance of WMC’s residential whole loan portfolio at June 30 stood at $1.24 a week earlier.

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This global investment firm wants to become a non-QM rainmaker

Housing Wire

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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“Last night, my Uber driver was a loan officer.”

Housing Wire

The steady drumbeat of dour news in the mortgage industry punctuated by headlines announcing layoffs and closures among the ranks of independent mortgage banks continues to play out, with several lenders over the last two weeks adding to the torrent of pink slips. Garth Graham, senior partner at stratmor group.