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Buy now, pay later: How do mortgage pros deal with ‘phantom debt’?

Housing Wire

Racamato is now orienting his team to look closely at clients’ bank statements to find multiple — and often interest-free — installments of a few hundred or thousand dollars paid to the same company on a biweekly or monthly basis. His team is now “scouring” bank statements, and if they see BNPL loans, they ask clients to pay them off.

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First-time homebuyers made up a record share of agency purchase loans in 2023

Housing Wire

The market in which these folks purchased their first home was one of record house prices, ballooning down payments , rising rates and elevated debt-to-income ratios (DTIs). When it comes to retaining the business of refinancing homeowners, the industry has a lot of ground to make up.

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Banking agencies get deluge of feedback on CRA proposal

Housing Wire

Stakeholders on all sides of the issues sounded off on the proposed changes to the federal redlining statute in comments to the banking agencies marshaling the changes. Those agencies oversee banks, and are tasked with ensuring banks do not redline , by enforcing the Community Reinvestment Act.

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Opinion: Regulators should focus on banks, not IMBs

Housing Wire

Before I open myself up to attacks here, I am using macro data from Urban Institute and there are certainly some banks who serve a broader swath of the market. More importantly, when it comes to the Ginnie Mae programs, banks contribute only 7% of all the mortgages by the FHA , VA , and USDA. In the FHA program alone, 46.3%

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OCC issues final rule to axe 2020 CRA version

Housing Wire

The federal banking agencies have in recent years disagreed on how to modernize the CRA, a 1977 anti-redlining statute. While the banking statute was meant to right the wrongs of federal redlining, its language was race neutral. Banks almost always pass their CRA mortgage exams , affordable housing advocates have argued.

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Vishal Garg unveils Better’s new strategy as a publicly traded company 

Housing Wire

In that time, the market, the industry and the consumer changed dramatically. Secondly, we are going to continue to invest in our technology and drive products, like One Day Mortgage, that are innovative and groundbreaking and drive the adoption of those products across the industry. What happened, from your standpoint?

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Incoming data will dictate future mortgage rate shifts, experts say

Housing Wire

The Federal Reserve affirmed on Wednesday that its next key federal funds rate hikes will depend on incoming data. In turn, economists and housing industry experts have now turned their attention toward the June meeting, as that decision will dictate the future movement of mortgage rates.

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