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Is investor appetite for non-QM changing?

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HousingWire recently caught up with Steven Schwalb, managing partner of Angel Oak Lending, about the changes investor appetite has gone though for non-QM. HousingWire: What is the investor appetite for non-QM and how has that changed over the past few years? Do they need a pre-closing investor review? Of that volume, $6.2

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Mortgage infrastructure platform Pylon raises $8.5M in seed round

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million in its seed round to build a mortgage-as-a-service platform for fintechs, banks and retail banks. Conversion Capital led the funding with participation from Fifth Wall , Peter Thiel , QED Investors , Montage Ventures , and Village Global as well as Ramp , Blend , Zillow , SoFi and Figure , the company announced.

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Figure Technologies launches wholesale lending platform

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Originators will use Figure’s online pre-application process to pre-qualify their customers, which then feeds directly to a digital fulfillment system supported by Figure. Approval may be granted in five minutes but is ultimately subject to verification of income and employment.

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Mortgage demand gets a boost as rates decline for three straight weeks

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And, following investors’ rush into bonds after the recent bank failures earlier this month, yields moved even lower last week — and mortgage rates followed. Arias said his pre-approval applications for March are in line with January’s numbers — but he hasn’t seen the busy spring buying season that everyone had hoped for. “It

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Mortgage rates are projected to decline, but will that entice buyers?

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Investors are betting that the economic slowdown and the Fed’s eventual victory over inflation will result in lower rates over time,” Fratantoni said. Andrew Marquis, regional vice president at CrossCountry Mortgage , also noted that he’s doing twice as many pre-approvals that he was doing in the fall due to the decline in rates. “We

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How JVM Lending plans to expand without any loan originators

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Mortgage analysts are in charge of pre-approving buyers, contract desk employees take in incoming contracts and send it to the underwriting team, and closing specialists process the loans and take over all communication with escrow, real estate agents and buyers to close loans. A lender with $624.6 I thought it was sparse.

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Ex-Zillow execs promise revolution in lending

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Venture capital investors including Zillow founder Spencer Rascoff and Trulia co-founder Pete Flint, believe that Tomo has the potential to topple the legion of lenders that have increased market share, invested heavily in technology and lapped up record profits in recent years. “Our history, follows a pre-seed round of $40 million.

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