Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2023

Mike Cagney’s Figure Technologies rolled out a wholesale lending platform that will give loan originators access to the company’s home equity line of credit (HELOC) offering. The funding timeline of five business days assumes closing the loan with Figure’s remote online notary, Figure said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Dark Matter Technologies , formerly Black Knight Origination Technologies, is focused on mainly two things: the smooth transition to new owners, and lowering the cost to originate loans for lenders. Read on to learn more about Dark Matter Technologies’ plan for mortgage. And we plan to continue to acquire there.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

An affiliate of Paceline Equity Partners LLC , a private equity manager based in Texas, completed a debt investment in a subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc. trillion in mortgage locking and trading transactions per year. billion megadeal announced in May 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

The refi boom is in our rearview mirrors and the road ahead looks promising for home equity volume. Who knows how high that volume could go, considering tappable equity is at a historic high of $11 trillion and total home equity at a record $27.8 How do you identify the right home equity partner?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

The demand for home-equity loans, particularly home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs) as well as shared-equity investment products, is now stronger than at any time since before the global financial crisis some 15 years ago. Those 17 deals were backed by home-equity collateral valued in total at $3.9

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2021

The average time to close on a mortgage has decreased for a fourth consecutive month to 51 days, according to a new study from ICE Mortgage Technology. The percentage of purchase mortgages increased to 43% of total closed loans. The percentage of purchase mortgages increased to 43% of total closed loans.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

New York-based Unlock Technologies , a fintech operating in the shared-equity market, and real estate investment firm Saluda Grade , have closed a $180 million private-label securitization (PLS) backed entirely by Unlock-originated residential home-equity agreements (HEAs). 21, according to Mortgage News Daily.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2023

American homeowners currently have more tappable home equity than ever — a net $30 trillion in home equity that can be tapped right now, according to HousingWire lead analyst Logan Mohtashami. There’s more tappable equity here than any other time in history, maybe.” It’s an exciting time for home equity, for sure.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Barry Coffin, managing director of home equity title/close at ServiceLink , about the ways lenders can capitalize on these trends by revving up their home equity solutions. Barry Coffin : It’s a good time to prioritize home equity transactions for a couple of reasons.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Rising home prices continue to fuel the growth of the nation’s multi-trillion dollar home-equity market, a fact not lost on behemoth investment-management firm PIMCO. Today, borrowers expect to close fast. Learn about the tools lenders should leverage to streamline home equity title and closing. Presented by: ServiceLink.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Stubborn inflation and high interest rates continue to wreak havoc on the mortgage-origination market, but there is one asset class in the housing market that is arguably flourishing in these hard times – home equity. rebranded as Rithm Capital ). Toohig said Raymond James finished the year with some $1.1 billion in 2021 to $9.6

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In late August, when mortgage rates were well over 7% and beginning their climb toward 8%, Jeff Anderson had a client do what few other homeowners are willing to do: She gave up her 4% mortgage rate. mortgage rate at the end of August. “At At closing, my client will get $10,000 of cash up-front. In 2021, more than $1.2

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2023

Digital mortgage exchange and loan aggregator MAXEX announced on Monday it closed an equity investment round and partnerships to expand liquidity amid the recent market volatility. mortgage markets ,” Tom Pearce, CEO, chairman and co-founder of MAXEX, said in a statement. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

New York-based digital lender Better.com announced Wednesday the closing of its business combination with the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Aurora Acquisition Corp , , ending a two-year journey to make the business public. Better faced the deterioration of the mortgage market due to surging rates. Better HoldCo, Inc.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2021

Lovell Minnick Partners , a private equity firm that acquired ATTOM Data Solutions in 2019, announced Wednesday morning that it’s diving further in to the housing space with the acquisition of UniversalCIS. UniversalCIS also moved into the appraisal space in January after it acquired mortgage tech provider Sharper Lending.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2021

Private equity firms Flexpoint Ford and Vestar Capital Partners have bought Lereta LLC , a provider of real estate tax and flood solutions for mortgage servicers, the companies announced this week. The transaction is expected to close within a month. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Early this month, California fintech Achieve announced the closing of its first AAA-rated securitization backed by $175 million in home equity lines of credit. A HELOC allows homeowners to access the equity in their homes without refinancing their primary mortgage.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

California-based mortgage tech firm Blend Labs , which has pursued non-GAAP profitability since it went public in 2021 , announced a $150 million investment on Monday from private equity firm Haveli Investments. Despite the challenging mortgage landscape, Blend has narrowed its losses. million, down from $182.2

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

A passion for technology led her to work in the fintech and blockchain spaces, and she has now turned her attention to the senior finance space by founding a company called Graceful Finance. naturally exposing her more closely to the American reverse mortgage industry. But the problem is they’re cash-flow poor in relative terms.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Publicly traded lending software firm MeridianLink has acquired OpenClose , a fintech company that specializes in residential mortgage software solutions for banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders. In April, MeridianLink paid roughly $28 million to acquire StreetShares , which provides lending technology to banks and credit unions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

Wells Fargo -backed mortgage fintech Maxwell rolled out a point-of-sale (POS) feature that offers tailored workflows and integrations. Lenders can choose to integrate and configure many third-party services such as verification of asset, verification of employment/ verification of income , e-signing and e-closing.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2022

It was at that point a former manager introduced me to the possibility of a different career path within reverse mortgage. Amanda Cherry : Macro trends continue to point to the need for people 55+ to have access to their home equity. The post Nominations for HW Insiders Close Today! appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2022

Lenders One Cooperative announced on Monday that it has struck a deal to lease retail space in Walmart stores to sell mortgage products and services. ” Lenders One will be selling purchase, refinance and home equity products at its “store-in-store” branch locations. Neither company offered mortgages.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

Homebuyers can secure a home mortgage using cryptocurrency as collateral through a new partnership between blockchain real estate platform Propy and crypto wallet service Abra. Propy uses NFTs to close the entire real estate deal digitally. . dollar, which are then pooled to fund digital, AI-enabled mortgages.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

New York-based investment firm Cerberus Capital Management has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire home equity lender Spring EQ , the companies announced on Friday. The transaction will allow Cerberus executives to realize new opportunities as demand for home equity solutions in the U.S. accelerates.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2023

Mike Cagney’s Figure Technologies announced a collaboration with CMG Financial , CrossCountry Mortgage , Fairway Independent Mortgage and The Loan Store as private-label partners. A five business day funding timeline assumes closing the loan with Figure’s remote online notary.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2021

Appraisal-management tech provider AppraisalWorks is now available through the ICE Mortgage Technology Platform , the company announced Tuesday. ICE Mortgage Technology, formerly known as Ellie Mae , is a cloud-based loan origination platform provider for the mortgage industry.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2022

A rising player in the world of crypto-mortgages and blockchain-enabled financing, LoanSnap, plans expand its reach in the market by opening its lending platform to licensed mortgage brokers across the country in the near future. Jacob is not alone in seeing the potential upside for crypto-mortgages and AI-enabled traditional loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Nashville, Tennessee-headquartered Defy Mortgage is the latest player to join the non-QM (non-qualified mortgage) lending space, which targets entrepreneurs and gig workers who have various forms of collateral, including cryptocurrency. We are able to count it as liquidity from a reserve requirement and for asset depletion.”. “We

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. Justin Woodward has experienced the best and the worst of the mortgage industry in only 18 months. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Ally Home , the residential mortgage lending arm of Ally Bank , is offering a $5,000 grant for eligible homebuyers in the select markets of Charlotte, Detroit and Philadelphia, the company announced on Tuesday. The upfront lump sum can be applied toward a down payment, closing costs or other expenses related to the homebuying process.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ’s regulator imagines a future where, perhaps through artificial intelligence and machine learning, errors in mortgages are identified in real time before a loan is closed. billion five years ago, per the Federal Housing Finance Agency — closing a mortgage loan has since gotten more expensive, not less.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Sagent’s appointment of Marshall comes amid the company’s goals to deliver the mortgage servicing industry’s first cloud-native software platform this year. Marshall will work closely with Sagent’s executive team to achieve that goal as well as oversee the firm’s long-term strategy, according to the firm’s release.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg reported that CoStar Group and a private equity group led by Warburg Pincus are currently competing for the data provider, though it is unclear if either have made an offer yet. If CoStar were to close the deal, it would be the largest acquisition the Washington, D.C.-based billion market cap.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

“Most technologies are not architected to do a million loans every five minutes.” “Most technologies are not architected to do a million loans every five minutes.” “We accomplish that by participating when one loan closes, so we want to find more loans and help close them more quickly.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

HousingWire: Like most industries, the mortgage industry has historically had key, dominant players that lenders must work with in order to remain operational. Specifically, when it comes to a core component in the mortgage tech stack like the PPE. It’s technology gridlock. HW: How has this technology gridlock hurt lenders?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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