BAM Media

APRIL 3, 2025

1: Foreclosures & Bankruptcies Still Below Pre-Pandemic Levels Consumers still worry that were heading for a repeat of the Great Recession of 2008. Number one, foreclosures and bankruptcies were rising in 2005, -6, -7, and -8. People who cannot realistically afford a home are far less likely to be approved for a loan.

Bankruptcy

Rochester Real Estate

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

It’s unfortunate, but not every prospective buyer is going to be able to qualify for a home loan. In the simplest terms the main difference is that a bank has its own lending criteria and offers loans by using its own funds. You have no control over who you loan gets sold to.

Finance

Rochester Real Estate

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

In my experience as a Webster NY Realtor , not enough buyers understand the impacts of scores until they apply for a loan. Credit mix: The types of credit accounts, such as credit cards, loans, and mortgages. Lenders rely on credit scores to evaluate the risk of lending to borrowers. However, co-borrowing also carries risks.

Debt-to-income ratio

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In February 2024, Guild struck a deal to acquire retail lending rival Academy Mortgage Corp. HousingWire tracked 37 mergers, acquisitions, exits and bankruptcies involving originators, servicers, tech platforms, and appraisal and valuation companies. adding 20% to 25% more volume, 1,000 employees and approximately 200 branches.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

FGMC) and its affiliate Maverick II Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Wednesday. . In the wake of the mass layoff on Friday, correspondent lending partners have complained about a total lack of communication with the company. They are particularly worried about loans already approved but not purchased by FGMC. .

Bankruptcy

Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2025

TMAC, dba GoodLife Home Loans ) leads the pack. Not appearing on the list is the former HMBS portfolio of Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF), which has been held by Ginnie Mae since shortly after the companys late 2022 bankruptcy. For the remaining rankings, Traditional Mortgage Acceptance Corp. million, with a market share of 5.5%.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2022

Recent pleadings filed in the bankruptcy case of First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. FGMC and its affiliate, Maverick II Holdings LLC , on June 30 filed to reorganize under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Samples reveals in his declaration that FGMC was hemorrhaging cash just prior to filing for bankruptcy protection — posting a $23.3

Bankruptcy

Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

In a statement confirming the deal Tuesday afternoon, Guaranteed Rate said the acquisition of Stearns would enable a boost in retail loan originations and further scale its JV platform, while also developing “new multichannel capabilities.” The post Guaranteed Rate to acquire Stearns Lending appeared first on HousingWire.

Lending

Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2023

filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware, just two months after it got back into the forward mortgage origination business. Bankruptcy Court for Delaware. Other creditors in the AmeriFirst bankruptcy with unsecured claims exceeding $500,000 include – RCP Customized Credit Fund ($5.97 million, court pleadings show.

Bankruptcy

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As a premier provider of innovative, high-performance software, data and analytics for mortgage and home equity lending and servicing, Black Knight is transforming the housing finance industry. The comprehensive MSP servicing system supports all areas of loan servicing for both first mortgages and home equity products. Originations.

Lending

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. We are thrilled to introduce Kind Lending to the world.

Lending

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. Are we really doing those types of loans and promoting homeownership again without understanding the risks?

Loans

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. If approved, AmeriFirst’s retail and commercial loans worth more than $5 million will be sold to a non-QM lender Oaktree Funding Corp.,

Loans

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The non-QM mortgage market, which encompasses most home loans not backed by a government-sponsored guarantee, is expected to reach the $25 billion mark this year in private-label securitization volume. . It’s going to happen at some point, or at least make it much easier.”. Automation just increases efficiencies,” Hutchens added.

Lending

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In the world of mortgage-financing, there exists a product line defined by what it is not — non-qualified mortgage (non-QM), non-prime, non-agency or an alternative-documentation loan. Angel Oak, through its affiliates, both originates and securitizes non-QM loans. We just see tremendous opportunity.”.

Loans

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Post-2010, lending standards in America became normal again, and while I still believe they’re very liberal, they’re sane. What happened post-2010 is that exotic loan debt structures that don’t provide long-term fixed debt products left the system. The most important factor is that debt structures are vanilla.

Bankruptcy

Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

Silvergate’s provisional fourth quarter earnings report revealed that it exited its mortgage warehouse lending product in the fourth quarter of 2022 due to “the current macro environment, the rising interest rate environment and related reduction in mortgage volumes.”. billion in crypto-related deposits. million in severance payments and $1.3

Lending

Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

Ginnie Mae: loans are our ‘absolute property’ In a filing to the court submitted on Wednesday, Ginnie Mae — using its official acronym “GNMA” in court filings — said that TCB cannot challenge the authority the company maintains over the reverse mortgage securities program. TCB’s interest, Ginnie Mae said, “derived entirely from RMF.”

Lending

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Angel Oak Home Loans will exit its retail distribution channel following a sale of its retail offices to an unknown lender and servicer. The transaction includes an acquisition of Angel Oak Home Loans’ brick-and-mortar retail offices and associated salesforce.”. Of the total volume, conventional loans accounted for 85.7%

Loans

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Garth Graham, senior partner and manager of merger and acquisition activities for the Stratmor Group , said many of the layoffs in the IMB industry so far have involved employees working in support positions, with loan officer jobs being the last to be jettisoned. Charting the loan officer exit.

Loan Officer

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. Both these laws paved the way for more responsible lending and a more responsible consumer. Today, we are at 1.25

Bankruptcy

Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

It follows a request from the shuttered lender to halt the agreement due to an involuntary bankruptcy petition filed by three creditors. 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

Bankruptcy

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The company hopes to reach its goal by growing organically with more loan officers under a dozen business development managers. There were also a few cases of bankruptcy. HousingWire tracked 62 mergers, acquisitions, exits and bankruptcies covered by the newsroom in 2023. bankruptcies. exits and 3.2%

Mortgages

Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

8 was a nearly 400-page appendix of agreement terms, program information and correspondence between Ginnie Mae, TCB and leaders at Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF), the former lender at the center of the dispute that filed for bankruptcy in late 2022. The first filing made on Aug.

Bankruptcy

Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2022

where she was COO before the company declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy and folded. She was previously the COO at Glenn Stearns’ Kind Lending and Planet Home Lending. Arc offers a range of mortgage products, but specializes in non-QM loans.

Bankruptcy

Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Glenn Sanford’s eXp World Holdings announced Thursday a mortgage joint venture with Glenn Stearns’s Kind Lending , called Success Lending. The company will be headquartered in Santa Ana, California, Stearns said, home of Kind Lending. The second big mortgage joint venture announcement this week is a meeting of the Glenns.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2022

FGMC) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the end of June — leaving four warehouse lenders on the hook for more than $415 million. The bank calls out 16 non-QM lenders in the text message, indicating it is ramping up scrutiny of its loan reviews, prior to advancing warehouse funding.

Lending

Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2024

New filings The filing, posted to the court docket on Friday morning, shows the immediate bankruptcy concern of leaders at RMF and the lack of willingness from other reverse mortgage industry participants to assume control of the full loan portfolio. Ginnie Mae ultimately seized the RMF servicing portfolio on or about Dec.

Bankruptcy

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Non-QM loans aren’t government-backed and aren’t eligible for purchase by Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae. Angel Oak Home Loans LLC – a full-service mortgage lender with its own LOs, and part of the Angel Oak family of companies – originated $2.44 Presented by: Acra Lending. Angel Oak Solutions originated $101.6

Mortgages

Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2022

A closer look at WMC’s books, however, shows that as of June 30 its residential whole loan portfolio, nearly all of which is comprised of non-QM loans, was underwater by some $44 million. That’s based on a comparison of the principal balance of the loans on the books and their fair market value as reported by the REIT as of that date.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

It plays an essential role in the economics of homeownership, ensuring that credit reaches those who need it and providing safeguards to those who lend it. In a refinancing, homeowners obtain a new loan and lenders require a new title search and a title insurance policy on that loan to protect their investment.

Title

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The partnership was made public by Figure on Thursday and comes a day after an announcement from Celsius — which filed for bankruptcy in July 2022 — that it will be acquired by NovaWulf. Cagney’s attempt to bring blockchain technology to mortgage lending at scale dates back to August 2021. Figure Acquisition Corp.,

Bankruptcy

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

through its mortgage-backed securities conduit Angel Mortgage Trust , has unveiled its sixth private-label securities (PLS) offering of 2022, even as fast-rising interest rates have jumped far ahead of the lower-rate legacy loans securing the deal. Presented by: Acra Lending. Atlanta-based non-QM lender Angel Oak Cos.

Lending

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2008, the rise of foreclosures and bankruptcy were waving red flags before the job-loss recession even happened. Today, it’s the complete opposite story: the 2005 bankruptcy reform laws and the 2010 Qualified Mortgage laws laid the foundation for the best housing credit profiles recorded in U.S.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2024

This, combined with the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform law and the most prolonged economic and job expansion in our nation’s history before COVID-19, has created a favorable financial environment for American homeowners. This is the risk of late-cycle lending in the U.S., especially with anyone with a low or zero down payment loan.

Equity

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

MAXEX , a major mortgage trading and aggregating platform, has unveiled a series of new programs designed to serve originators and loan buyers in the growing non-QM lending market. Facilitating forward-trading agreements, which allow platform users to sell loan pools at a future date with pre-negotiated terms and pricing.’.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

The lawsuits quickly came pouring in, but Strauss never did seek bankruptcy protection for Sprout or its affiliates. The mystery as to what happened to its loan pipeline and funding endure. The NMLS registry also shows that the company – NMLS ID 2420605 – has a license to originate loans in Illinois that was issued on November 1, 2022.

Mortgages