Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

The current bank crisis hit California-based Pacific Western Bank , a community bank owned by PacWest Bancorp that has a focus on real estate and commercial loans. billion in fully funded cash proceeds from the global investment firm Atlas SP Partners through a new senior asset-backed financing facility.

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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. million) and Wells Fargo Bank ($1.1 AmeriFirst told Housingwire that the bankruptcy action has no impact on closed mortgages and the loans in the pipeline will be closed and funded.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Mortgage rates continued their descent this week to mark their lowest level since May 2023, welcome news for homebuyers who have been waiting on the sidelines for rates to drop. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.6% The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.6% 12 compared to a week earlier. The Fed next meets on Jan.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Mortgage rates are around 7.7%, the highest levels in over 20 years, and LOs across America are having to reset their strategies. Higher down payments and surging monthly mortgage payments are throttling borrowers’ personal finances, and prospective buyers are turning to family members to gift funds or sign up to be non-occupant co-borrowers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

California-based fix-and-flip lender Anchor Loans launched a third-party originator (TPO) channel to serve mortgage brokers, banks, private and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lenders and other referral partners whose clients are home builders, developers and investors.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

Scott Miller, a former mortgage loan originator at Sprout Mortgage , knew the clock was ticking when the non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lender abruptly closed doors in July 2022. Up to 30% of the 1,000 largest independent mortgage banks projected to disappear by the end of 2023 via sales, or failures.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2023

Go Mortgage sued its former director of capital markets for “corporate sabotage,” alleging computer fraud, violation of trade secrets, breach of contract and tortious interference with a business relationship. Chikonde, who was hired in January 2021, managed Go Mortgage’s warehouse lines, pricing, hedging and loan sales.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A federal judge ordered Ronald McCord, the founder of Oklahoma City-based lender and servicer First Mortgage Company , who was also once the president of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), to pay $51.8 million in restitution for mortgage fraud. United States District Judge Robin Cauthron ordered McCord also serve 8.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

8. “With the acquisition of AFR, we will build on our already strong mortgage platform. residential mortgage market and housing-related assets. In AFR, it’s adding the New Jersey-based, full-service independent mortgage bank that has direct, wholesale and correspondent lending divisions.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Last week’s above-consensus inflation figures brought the mortgage market back to a sour reality: The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate, an index closely watched by industry experts, may be close to or even above the 7% level for longer than previously expected. Where are mortgage rates headed? in second-quarter 2024.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

new jobs hiring, housing jobs, recruiting for mortgage industry. Based on the headlines, one might assume the mortgage business is a complete disaster. Some mortgage companies will merge to stay afloat, and many others will go under. Bank, Citi and Bank of America looking to expand the ranks of LOs.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates, now around 6.5%, are cooling down the housing market and triggering mass layoffs in the mortgage and real estate industries. Mortgage rates have nearly doubled to around 6.5% Mortgage rates have nearly doubled to around 6.5% We do not see new construction returning in a meaningful way any time soon. “The

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

“I haven’t seen a dry spell like this in the time I’ve been in business,” Bob Yopko, president of First Equity Residential Mortgage , said of this year’s spring homebuying season. Mortgage rates tend to align with the 10-year U.S. “Mortgage rates should be 5.55%, not 6.5%,” he said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2021

The parent company of Veritex Community Bank will acquire a 49% stake in Texas-based mortgage lender Thrive Mortgage , the firms announced late Tuesday afternoon. Veritex is one of Texas’ largest banks, with $8.8 The investment in Thrive comes amid a wave of M&A activity in the mortgage lending space.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite mass layoffs in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation, mortgage professionals still see opportunities in the market. LenderPulse requests surveys from 24,000 mortgage professionals across the country on market trends and lender opportunities and challenges. in events to garner business. Roughly 36.3%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

All 12 Federal Reserve districts have seen issues with a lack of housing inventory , which is largely due to existing homeowners holding back on listing their homes after previously locking in low mortgage rates. A strong economy and relatively high mortgage rates have pushed some movers to the rental market, boosting demand.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

Mike Fratantoni , the chief economist and senior vice president of research and industry technology at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), addressed three major challenges in the housing market during testimony before the U.S. The silver lining, however, is that builders have picked up their pace of construction.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

relaunched its forward mortgage originations. It ceased that business in December 2022 after rising mortgage rates wreaked havoc on the housing industry. Of the 400 employees scooped up by American Pacific Mortgage (APM) late last year, about 20 LOs have returned to AmeriFirst Financial. In 2022, AmeriFirst closed $2.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Flagstar ’s presence and expertise in the third-party wholesale mortgage origination market have combined to create a history of success extending over 35 years. Flagstar offers a broad product set including agency, non-agency, construction products and HELOCs.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2023

Over the next 10 years, the partnership could result in “up to $1 billion” in capital and financing from Wells Fargo and grants from the Wells Fargo Foundation, the companies said. In December, the bank agreed to pay $1.7 Consequently, the regulator ordered the bank to pay more than $2 billion in redress to consumers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the White House announced plans to extend the Federal Financing Bank (FFB) risk-sharing program, two prominent housing associations shared their differing perspectives on the move. Shortly after the U.S. The FFB risk-sharing program has “closed or committed $4.9

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

Ohio-based Union Home Mortgage is the latest in a string of lenders this week to institute workforce reductions. The multichannel lender, which originated roughly $13 billion in residential mortgage last year, declined to provide any details about the layoffs. The lender’s origination volume increased 25.8% billion, up 65.5%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While Fed Chair Jerome Powell emphasized incoming data will determine whether the central bank will raise its federal funds rate at its next FOMC meeting in November, the “dot-plot” of rate projections showed policymakers foresee one more hike by the year-end. in 2024 and 5.1%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

In a recent earnings call, Sheryl Palmer, chairman and CEO of national homebuilder Taylor Morrison , said about two-thirds of homeowners now have mortgage interest rates below 4%. Fannie Mae ’s vice president of economic and strategic research, Hamilton Fout, said the gap between homeowners now holding historically low mortgage rates (i.e.,

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

After a year’s worth of warnings about a recession, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the central bank’s staff no longer forecasts a nationwide economic downturn. Mortgage rates are expected to remain elevated until inflation moves to a level more consistent with the Fed’s mandate.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Lombardo cited data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. These include a first-time homebuyer tax credit that would offer qualifying beneficiaries $400 a month for two years, adding that this would serve to have the effect of lowering their mortgage rate by roughly 1.5%. A record 1.7

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

Busch is vice president and senior mortgage banker at First Savings Mortgage Corporation , a Virginia-based lender that produced $2 billion in mortgages in 2022, less than half the $4.2 billion volume of the previous year, per the mortgage data platform Modex. And he hasn’t done so voluntarily. billion in 2022, down 41.3%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2023

The pace of new construction had been picking up over the past two years. Completions have outpaced starts since July 2022 and that will likely continue to put downward pressure on the number of single-family homes under construction. If interest rates come down, homebuilders could find it easier to finance new projects.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2022

Mortgage rates are increasing and demand is beginning to level out. Now, these younger buyers are driving financial institutions to adapt to their expectations for more streamlined user experiences , accelerating digital transformations with new technology that will move the mortgage industry into a truly digital age. .

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The nation’s network of Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks ) expects to be required to increase its share of investments in affordable housing. The total volume should not be lower than $100 million for each bank. In the first week of October, the bank also launched a $1.5 In May, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Rep.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

Holden spoke on the topic of leveraging data science and alternative data to increase access to homeownership at Mortgage Bankers Association ’s (MBA’s) Technology Solutions Conference & Expo at San Jose, California on Monday. If Hispanics are falling out a lot of the time because of the DTI, what does that mean?(…)

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2023

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) announced on Wednesday that Christine Chandler, the executive vice president, chief credit officer, and chief operating officer of M&T Realty Capital Corporation (RCC), has been nominated to serve as MBA’s vice chair for the 2024 membership year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

As a driver of the economy, housing should be bolstered by: Non-bank lending institutions to lend in lower-income areas and to minorities in the same way that CRA provides for banks Reducing government-insured and guaranteed mortgage loan fees. The need for change in current mortgage underwriting guidelines.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2021

Knox automates and oversees a property’s finances and taxes, insurance, leasing and legal, tenant and property care, banking, and bill pay. Knox oversees a portfolio of more than $100 million in investment properties, and was named one of HousingWire’s 2021 Tech100 companies.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Wholesale lender Homepoint is becoming a broker of sorts…for mortgage brokers. The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company has launched a referral program aimed at connecting mortgage brokers with regional homebuilders as well as homebuyers. The company sold $13.1

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2021

In his confirmation hearing Tuesday before the Senate Banking Committee , Chopra, President Joe Biden’s choice for director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , emphasized that the CFPB has to be ready for housing market fallout due to the pandemic. million borrowers with mortgages in forbearance plans. As one of Sen.

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Marco Santarelli

APRIL 20, 2024

As of April 19, 2024, the mortgage landscape in the United States has been marked by a period of fluctuation, with rates experiencing a slight increase. The average rate for a conventional 30-year fixed mortgage was reported at 7.22% , while the 15-year fixed mortgage stood at 6.657%. This aligns with broader economic trends.

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