Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

The result included a mark-to-market of $63 million, a $1 million severance charge and $10 million losses with equity investments. million customers and $853 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) at the end of March, compared to $870 billion at the end of December. “But we expect more to come from the banks.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Night and day’ difference When posed with the simple question about how business is going so far this year, David Heilman — principal for HomeGrown Financial in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina — characterized the difference between early 2024 business and the same time last year as “night and day.” “I

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The Big Chill” or “Frozen,” says Green, principal at real estate law firm Polunsky Beitel Green. They are not selling and have a lot of equity in their homes. Homeowners in 2022 also tapped into their home equity, which peaked at $11.5 non-Bank financial institutions at Fitch Ratings. over asking price. High octane stuff.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

MSR holdings for banks over same period remained essentially flat, however, according to Recursion’s data — at $2.773 trillion in 2019 versus $2.747 trillion as of January 2024, again based on the outstanding balance of loans serviced. The total number of firms [IMBs and banks] after this cycle of right-sizing is probably going to be lower.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Prior to joining Nations Direct, O’Brien held leadership positions at LoanDepot , was Northeast regional sales manager at Fifth Third Bank; principal at J.H. O’Brien & Associates and VP, Eastern regional sales manager at National City Home Equity, among others. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Roughly a year after Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang were acquired by a private equity firm, they’ve merged their services onto one platform and rebranded to “TrustEngine.” The company says more than 200 independent mortgage companies, credit unions, banks and brokers currently use TrustEngine’s solutions.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

As people look for alternate means to access the equity in their homes, home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) are poised to make a comeback. Here’s why: Homeowners will still want to use the record levels of equity in their homes. According to CNBC, homeowner equity is an aggregate $9.9 A HELOC is now cheaper than a refi.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

As people look for alternate means to access the equity in their homes, home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) are poised to make a comeback. Here’s why: Homeowners will still want to use the record levels of equity in their homes. According to CNBC, homeowner equity is an aggregate $9.9 A HELOC is now cheaper than a refi.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Incenter completed a dozen bulk sales transactions in January involving MSRs for agency-backed loan pools that together had a total unpaid principal balance of $113.2 In fact, five of the deals involved MSRs pegged to loan pools that exceeded $10 billion in unpaid principal balance. Another private-equity player in the MSR space is St.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

On Wednesday, top executives at the company told analysts that Mr. Cooper is now the largest servicer in the country and will continue to grow its portfolio by acquiring large bulks of mortgage servicing rights (MSRs), mainly from banks expecting additional capital requirements through Basel III rules. The correspondent channel fell to $1.7

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

According to the latest quarterly earnings, the servicing company ended the fourth quarter of 2021 with $710 billion in unpaid principal balance, up from $668 billion in the third quarter. Before joining Mr. Cooper, he held executive positions at First Horizon National Corporation and Capital Bank.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In May, Lisa Heitzmann joined the company as its chief operating officer and later went on to join LGH Consulting LLC as its principal. among others. In 2020, the lender shuttered its non-QM operation and laid off workers, but made a return in 2021 and issued a $146.2 million security backed by non-QM mortgages.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

trillion in tappable equity available in February amid rising home prices. Reaction to bank failures According to the Black Knight report, as of the week ending on March 18, purchase lock counts were 21% lower compared to the same week in 2019 — and 30% below the levels for the same week in 2018. In February, it took 33.2%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements fell 11.8% Low issuance is caused by higher interest rates, resulting in lower Principal Limit Factors (PLFs), combined with the high upfront Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP),” Kelly explained. Until the upfront MIP is restructured, it will keep origination volume down.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

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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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2022

Lakeview Trust 2022-EBO 2 involves a pool of 2,063 FHA-backed loans with an unpaid principal balance (UPB) of $405.2 Key to EBO offerings is the fact that the FHA guarantees 100% of the principal balance on the loans it insures. million, with all the loans deemed delinquent. In total, 99.3% are in active foreclosure. million to $13.2

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

That way, credit unions, banks and other lenders [can use it] to help them get off to a good start.” Consumers are more motivated and more energized, even though rates are still up and principal limits are down. And so even without a lot of effort, that means that there’s something going on.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2021

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently observed that across all kinds of financial services, activities that had once been principally the province of banks have moved into the nonbank sector, including IMBs. Bank CRA obligations cover far more than their mortgage lending.

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Realty Biz

JULY 1, 2022

Williams currently serves as Founder and Managing Principal of Dabar Development Partners. Dawanna Williams is the Founder and Managing Principal of Dabar Development Partners – a real estate development firm that offers modern living solutions with intelligent planning, architectural ingenuity, and environmental integrity. .”

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

During the housing bubble, many homeowners borrowed heavily against their perceived home equity - jokingly calling it the “Home ATM” - and this contributed to the subsequent housing bust, since so many homeowners had negative equity in their homes when house prices declined.

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Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Your home equity is the difference between what you owe on your mortgage(s) and what your home is currently worth if you sold it today (the appraised value). For instance, if the remaining balance on your mortgage is $195,000 and the market value is $295,000, you have $100,000 of equity in your home. Your equity increases in two ways.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Last year, fast-rising rates and related volatility, coupled with liquidity challenges in the bank and nonbank sectors, high home prices and a shortage of housing inventory all worked together to suppress mortgage originations and the secondary market outlets for those loans as well.

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HomeLight

AUGUST 31, 2022

If you need assistance navigating the financial or tax implications of unlocking your home’s equity, HomeLight always encourages you to reach out to your own advisor. homeowners with mortgages (roughly 62% of all properties) saw their equity increase by a total of more than $3.8 What is home equity? According to CoreLogic , U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Name Job Title Company Name Aaron Kardell Vice President of Product Lone Wolf Technologies Aayaam Kapoor Vice President of Product and Agency Real Estate Webmasters Amaly Quiroz Vice President of Transaction Operations eXp Realty Amy Gorce CEO REdistribute Andrew Binkley President Constellation Real Estate Group Ankur Bansal President of HomeLight (..)

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

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.” In the case of large institutions such as Bank of America , Wells Fargo , and MetLife , we never regained their lost volume. This represents $15.6

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

MARCH 7, 2024

During the housing bubble, many homeowners borrowed heavily against their perceived home equity - jokingly calling it the “Home ATM” - and this contributed to the subsequent housing bust, since so many homeowners had negative equity in their homes when house prices declined. Mortgage debt is up $2.36

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

At a time when the banking system is making headlines, housing finance regulators should appreciate the strength, stability and resilience of the conventional mortgage market backed by private mortgage insurance. Seth Appleton is the president of the U.S. Mortgage Insurers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Lee Smith and John Gibson at Flagstar Bank about what originators can do to align their mortgage products and services with the ebb and flow of the housing market and what Flagstar is doing to help clients remain at the top of their game during this turbulent time. The same is true for non-qualified mortgages.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Philadelphia-based private equity firm LLR Partners announced Tuesday its investment in Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach , two fintechs focused on attracting and retaining mortgage borrowers and making loan originators more efficient. Both firms will maintain their existing brands and teams.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2022

The firm’s earnings were driven by its servicing portfolio and about $520 billion in unpaid principal balance, said David Spector, chairman and chief executive officer of PennyMac in an earnings call. billion in unpaid principal balance, down 36% from the previous quarter and 32% from the first quarter of 2021. million, down from $106.5

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Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It belongs to the bank until you pay off the mortgage, which happens more slowly than you might like. Your payment goes to principal and interest each month following an amortization schedule. A monthly mortgage payment includes principal, interest, and other fees such as property tax and private mortgage insurance (PMI).

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Carnes added that he is seeing many players active in the MSR market right now, including private-equity funds and real estate investment trusts (REITs). Incenter completed a dozen bulk MSR sales transactions in January involving MSRs for agency-backed loan pools that together had a total unpaid principal balance of $113.2

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

million customers and $882 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) at the end of June, compared to $853 billion at the end of March. Mr. Cooper had strong second-quarter earnings, said a team of equity analysts at Jeffries. Mr. Cooper had 4.3 billion in Q2 2023, compared to $1.3 billion in Q1 2023, due to more rational pricing.

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Keeping Current Matters

MARCH 16, 2021

This ‘wealth’ is built, in large part, through the creation of equity…Building equity through your monthly principal payments and appreciation is a critical part of homeownership that can help you create financial stability.”. The average equity gain of mortgaged homes in the last year was $26,300. There was a 16.9%

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Keeping Current Matters

APRIL 12, 2021

The Banks Don’t Want the Houses Back. Banks have learned lessons from the crash of 2008. 5% were granted a loan deferral where a borrower does not have to pay the lender interest or principal on a loan for an agreed-to period of time. Homeowners have record levels of equity today. 9% were given a loan modification.

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

DECEMBER 7, 2023

During the housing bubble, many homeowners borrowed heavily against their perceived home equity - jokingly calling it the “Home ATM” - and this contributed to the subsequent housing bust, since so many homeowners had negative equity in their homes when house prices declined.

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RIS Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The average American household has about $8,800 in the bank. We’re out there each and every day participating in a real estate marketplace that advances small businesses and promotes equity for consumers. Principal Broker at Phipps Realty Inc. And we know that these savings go a long way. Ron Phipps.

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