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Once at the fringes of housing finance, home equity investment companies look to grow their stake

Housing Wire

“What if homeowners could tap into home equity without taking on debt?” When Hometap launched in 2017, the Boston-based fintech offered an unorthodox answer to this question for homeowners looking for an alternative to a loan. The annual investment volume in the U.S.

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Retail reverse mortgage production took a hit in January

Housing Wire

While reverse mortgage volume in 2024 got off to a rocky start, new data that breaks out retail Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements versus wholesale production showed that it was the former that took the bigger hit in the first month of the year, based on new data compiled by Reverse Market Insight (RMI). to 358 loans).

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Introducing the 2023 Women of Influence!

Housing Wire

Name Job Title Company Name Agnes Standowicz Senior Vice President and Head of Underwriting United Wholesale Mortgage Alayna Gardner Director of Sales and Marketing LodeStar Software Solutions Ali Haralson President Auction.com Amanda Tucker Chief Risk and Compliance Officer Atlantic Bay Mortgage Company Amy Gromowski Executive of Science and Analytics (..)

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MSR trading should finish strong in 2023, but there are headwinds

Housing Wire

Still, there are challenges facing the MSR market related to the staying power of the huge volume of mortgage servicing rights now being traded that are pegged to legacy loans at low interest rates — in the 3% to 4% range. The bulk of MSR trades to date have involved legacy loans with “a sub-4% WAC” [weighted average coupon], Piercy said.

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What Equity Wealth Means for Homeowners

Realty Biz

Today’s skyrocketing home values have resulted in 42% of homeowners with mortgages being “Equity Rich” at the end of 2021 (according to Attom real estate data). In total, that is an incredible amount of equity wealth. trillion in available equity, which is a 35% jump in a single year. How Equity Wealth is Created.

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The strategy behind UWM’s multibillion dollar investment

Housing Wire

Ishbia is confident his firm can benefit from this trend by cutting prices for brokers and bringing more retail loan officers to its wholesale channel, whose market share currently stands at around 20%. billion in loans over the first six months of 2022 — for total proceeds of $871.7 UWM’s loan production income of $296.5

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Meet the likely buyers of independent mortgage banks in 2023

Housing Wire

trillion in loans, about half of 2021’s $4.4 Within the past week, one of the nation’s largest retail mortgage lenders, Charlotte-based Movement Mortgage , announced the acquisition of Mortgage Network, a deal that would add $2 billion in annual loan volume, 250 mortgage professionals and 31 branch offices to its network.

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