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?

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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%

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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.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. But the housing market in the second half of 2022? By September, a full-fledged housing market recession had set in. The 2002 housing market has been a tale of two halves,” said Green. A mortgage rate lockdown freezes the housing market.

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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

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Realty Biz

APRIL 5, 2022

One of the frequently asked questions during today’s booming housing market is can I qualify for a mortgage during Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. Chapter 13 Bankruptcy is a court-approved debt repayment plan where their debts are restructured over a period of three to five years. Mortgage Options During Chapter 13 Bankruptcy.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2022

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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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

As a follow-up, HousingWire sat down with Peter Richter, co-founder and president at Flueid, to discuss why mortgage lenders should be asking for a quick, data-driven title check at loan application, rather than an instant title commitment, to understand and verify what’s going on with a property and consumer from the start.

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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. There will always be a population of borrowers who cannot qualify for a home loan under traditional guidelines. The solution: Bank Statement loans. . Loans up to $1.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The California-based retail lender has set a target of becoming a top-10 lender in the markets in which it has a presence, which would give it about 2% in overall market share. United Wholesale Mortgage , the top lender in the country by volume, claimed just under 8% total market share over the first nine months of 2023.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Meanwhile, Michael Strauss , its only loan officer, now has an inactive status on his license, according to the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR). Smart Rate marked Strauss’s return to the mortgage market after abruptly shuttering Sprout Mortgage in July 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

“CMG’s financial wellness approach wins over each customer with a seamless combination of experienced human advisors and easy-to-use digital tools,” said Paul Akinmade, CMG’s financial chief marketing and strategy officer. The company has been aiming to grow its market share in originations through mergers and acquisitions.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As 2021 draws to a close, it’s clear that the private-label residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) market has notched a year for the record books. market — defined as all post-financial-crisis prime, non-prime and credit-risk transfer (CRT) transactions — is projected to exceed $115 billion in issuance.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The pace of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) issuance in the nonagency market slowed considerably in July and August as rising interest rates and Federal Reserve MBS-purchase policy have combined to dampen the momentum exhibited in the private-label space in 2021 and over the first half of this year. billion over the same period in 2021.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Ginnie Mae intends to develop a new reverse mortgage-backed security product enabling the acquisition of loans from an HMBS pool above the existing 98% maximum claim amount (MCA) requirement, according to a new announcement. HECM warrants special attention because of demographic trends, and the financial circumstances of older Americans.

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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

MAY 13, 2024

In addition, nonbanks represent seven of the 10 largest servicers of Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae loans. The FSOC report, released on Friday, states that these companies quickly adapt their operations to market conditions, are early adopters of technology and are key for underserved borrower groups.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

What happened post-2010 is that exotic loan debt structures that don’t provide long-term fixed debt products left the system. This was very critical to not only the housing market but also the health of the U.S. This content is exclusively for HW+ members. Start an HW+ Membership now for less than $1 a day.

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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 4, 2022

Pontiac, Michigan-based United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) capitalized on a booming private-label market in 2021 by sponsoring its inaugural securities transaction this past May, a prime jumbo deal involving 508 mortgages with an aggregate principal balance of $351.9 That’s a strong start for a new issuer. “A KBRA seems to think so as well.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Mike Darne, vice president of marketing at CreditXpert , about credit optimization and how taking a closer look at consumer credit can benefit borrowers. But when every loan matters, like the market we find ourselves in today, it makes a lot of sense to take a closer look at the borrower’s credit score.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

through its Angel Oak Mortgage Trust conduit, recently unveiled its latest private-label securitization (PLS) offering — a deal slated to close in early August backed by 788 predominately non-QM loans valued at $362 million. AOMR)— has brought to market a total of five PLS deals backed by mortgage pools valued at $2.1 Angel Oak Cos.,

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Newport Beach, California-based Excelerate Capital , a long-time non-QM lender with a growing market presence, finalized its acquisition of Castle Mortgage Corp. With the Castle acquisition and tech integration now completed, our intent is to lend nation nationwide in the non-QM market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

per share at market open on Friday, up from $10.98 per share at market close the day before. To the extent that you can get loans off your balance sheet faster, it lowers your financing costs. New client and market share acquisitions In a rare move, Rocket shared specific numbers of its market share growth.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Bankruptcies and foreclosures After 2010, the qualified mortgage laws came into play and all the exotic loan debt structures in the system, especially in the run-up in demand from 2002 to 2005, disappeared. Homeowners, on the other hand, are sitting pretty and are the envy of the world.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

With home prices at all-time highs and concern that the labor market will break going into a recessionary period, is another 2008-style crash a possibility? The answer is no, and for that, we must thank the 2010 qualified mortgage (QM) rule, which has high standards for borrower credit scores and the ability to repay the loan.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2022

Lenders saw the value of agency loans made at lower rates — in the 3% range — in 2021 and early January 2022 drop precipitously over the course of the first quarter. That negatively affected liquidity options in both the loan-trading and securitization markets as higher-rate loans [above 5%] subsequently hit the market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

A bullish housing market. The housing market didn’t crash at all, in fact, more Americans bought homes with mortgages in 2021 than in 2020. Also, post-2010, the loans in American are very vanilla on the debt structure side of the equation. What a year 2021 has been. We started the year with many pundits saying that the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

The problem: They did not qualify for the loans. Hill’s scheme, also enabled by a group of co-conspirators, caught up with him, in part because many of the loans started going south. Hill instructed the homebuyers on how to game the system by submitting fraudulent asset, income and employment information on loan applications.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Jobs week cleared up the skies for the Federal Reserve members, who are smiling — big time — after a series of data lines gave them what they wanted: a softer labor market! While the labor market isn’t breaking , it has become more pliant in the data lines the Fed focuses on. First, let’s take a look at Friday’s jobs report.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Processes and risks In December 2022, Ginnie Mae seized RMF’s HMBS portfolio due to the company’s bankruptcy, and the resulting stresses contributed to the decision to investigate, Oliver Davis explained at the time.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

1 reason a mortgage loan applicant is denied for a loan is a problem with their credit score. But when every loan matters, like the market we find themselves in today, it makes a lot of sense to take a closer look at the borrower’s credit score. But that’s only true if the problem is approached correctly.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

Even though they have a low mortgage rate on their home loan, the pandemic causes unanticipated financial hardships which lead to a decrease in their annual income as well as the necessity of using credit cards for their basic needs. Then, the housing market takes off like a rocket with home values exceeding all expectations.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Non-QM specialist Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions is the latest player in the space to cut a sizable chunk of its workforce amidst widespread market volatility. The company issued pink slips to 75 employees last week, about 20% of its workforce, citing the “current economic environment that has challenged the entire mortgage market.”

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Realty Biz

JULY 12, 2021

I’m thinking that bankruptcy might be my only option. What’s important for me to know about filing bankruptcy as a homeowner? How bankruptcies work out is highly dependent on personal circumstances. You definitely want to talk to a bankruptcy attorney before making any final decisions or taking action. Code 6-10-2.).

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2022

(FGMC) and its affiliate Maverick II Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in late June after suddenly cutting hundreds of jobs. Former employees of Sprout said loans in the pipeline are still pending, and it’s highly doubtful they will be funded. They can hold it and wait for the market to recover.

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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.” This is a breaking news story. Check back for more updates.

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