Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

Digital real estate closing platform Qualia announced the release of a version of its Qualia Connect platform for mortgage originators. According to Qualia, this release means that the Connect platform will now be able to integrate directly into the mortgage lender’s loan origination system.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2022

Texas lender Mid America Mortgage rebranded as Click n’ Close to expand into the mortgage technology industry following the sale of the majority of its retail lending operations. The post Mid America Mortgage rebrands to Click n’ Close appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2024

Kiavi , one of the nation’s largest private lenders for residential real estate investors , closed a $300 million unrated securitization of residential transition loans (RTLs), the company announced on Friday. The loans bundled in the securitization were mostly investment property loans used for fix-and-flip transactions.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

Most borrowers who had a mortgage forbearance in March 2021, including disproportionately impacted borrowers of color, were either current or closed as of March 2023. mortgage borrowers to enter public or private forbearance programs, which temporarily paused their mortgage payments.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

trillion this year, stretching the capacity limits of lenders and everyone else in the housing ecosystem, some mortgage applicants simply haven’t been worth his while. “I I have a refinance client in California and they own a geodesic dome home,” said Glessner, a senior loan officer at Draper & Kramer Mortgage in Englewood, Colorado.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2022

million for the mortgage lending operation in its quest to provide customers “a one-stop shop” where they can buy, sell, rent and finance a home, according to a news release from the company. Before the acquisition of Bay Equity was completed, Redfin laid off 121 staffers in its mortgage division. Presented by: 1000watt.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

” Republic collapsed after it failed to raise $75 million in capital from investors and exited the mortgage lending space. Republic had an active business that specialized in jumbo mortgage products. Ultimately, it originated about $50 million in mortgages in 2023, per mortgage tech platform Modex.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Ellie Mae ’s Origination Insight report for October demonstrates some of the side effects of the historically low mortgage rates we’ve seen in 2020: incredibly high volume and an increase in time-to-close. Time to close has been creeping up since the lows seen in March when shut-downs started happening. respectively.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

When Curtis Mangus of Premier Mortgage Resources in Meridian, Idaho looked into pivoting into reverse after serving decades in the traditional mortgage business, he asked his managing partner at the lender about its reverse mortgage department. You are the reverse mortgage department,” he said. The partner smiled. “

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Tech100 Mortgage award celebrates the most innovative and impactful organizations in housing. More than just an acknowledgment; the Tech100 award is a testament to the transformative impact these companies have made, propelling the mortgage sector into new realms of efficiency, transparency and accessibility.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

The attorney general of Michigan has re-released a consumer alert about the reverse mortgage product category during financial literacy month. A reverse mortgage is a type of home equity loan extended, in most cases, to those who are 62 years of age or older,” the announcement stated.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2021

A painstaking, uncoordinated movement to fully adopt remote online notarizations nationwide and complete end-to-end digital escrow mortgage closings is gaining even more traction as the real estate industry launches into a new decade in 2021. The post The future of mortgage closings appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Mortgage servicers, regulators and economists are closely watching the delinquency rates for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans following a spike in the fourth quarter of 2023. The sources spoke about these issues during this week’s Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Servicing Solutions Conference & Expo in Orlando.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2024

My model for inventory growth with higher mortgage rates came crashing down last week. After two weeks of significant increases , inventory growth slowed dramatically and is far from my 11,000-17,000 growth model with mortgage rates over 7.25%. When mortgage rates increase, demand falls and the price-cut percentage grows.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

loan officer Timothy Potempa has departed Dallas-based multichannel lender OneTrust Home Loans to join E Mortgage Capital , bringing his team of about 40 people and more than $300 million in annual production to the company headquartered in California. 7 loan officer in the country last year with a mortgage production volume of $326.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

This has led to the development of policies by state and local housing finance agencies to aim assistance specifically at this group, particularly for “mortgage eligibility or down payment and closing costs assistance.” Identification of a loan under these conditions is currently optional, the bulletin explained.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Texas-based mortgage lender Click n’ Close announced on Tuesday that its primary technology partner, Alabama-based mortgage banker Barr Group Mortgage, has completed the first eNote transaction using the Click n’ Close non-delegated correspondent eNote program.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Florida-based First Federal Bank announced on Thursday that it struck a deal to acquire Watson Mortgage Corp., expanding its mortgage retail lending footprint in the communities in which it operates. Last year, the community bank originated about $435 million in mortgage volume, per mortgage data platform Modex.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

After the release of proposed new rules for the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P) program late last year, the reverse mortgage industry expressed a lot of excitement. But after concerns were brought to the attention of policymakers during the proposal’s comment period, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

In early November, 30-year fixed mortgage rates began a nosedive, declining from near 8% to below 7% in a matter of months before once again starting to rise at the start of 2024. at the end of April, according to HousingWire ’s Mortgage Rates Center. Non-QM mortgages include loans that cannot be purchased by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Builders reported covering closing costs, offering discounted or free features, helping buyers sell their existing home and providing other incentives. With mortgage rates slowing homebuying, the monthly supply for July 2022 reached a level 87% higher than Sept. Price cuts are not the only way builders are fighting for sales.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Click n’ Close , a mortgage lender mostly active in the wholesale and correspondent channels, appointed Kara Lamphere to the role of chief operating officer (COO). Prior to joining Click n’ Close, Lamphere was COO at InterLinc Mortgage. To do so with a known and trusted team is a bonus.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Mortgage pros have closely monitored the commission lawsuit developments since a Kansas City, Missouri jury determined that NAR, HomeServices of America , and Keller Williams conspired to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s so-called Participation Rule.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Rocket Companies on Tuesday launched a loyalty program to attract potential homebuyers into its ecosystem amid one of the most challenging mortgage markets in decades. In the first phase of the program, customers can use points to get discounts on their closing costs when purchase a home through the subsidiary Rocket Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The availability of mortgage credit increased in January, according to a report issued by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) based on data sourced from ICE Mortgage Technology. The MBA’s Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) increased in January to 92.7, and the Conforming MCAI rose by 0.2%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

Mortgage brokers ’ compensation is in the spotlight after a recent Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) test concluded that some financial institutions failed to prove that payments were “reasonably related” to the value of services provided. There are some caveats related to counseling services, referrals, and duplicative work.)

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2024

Ron DeSantis (R) signed a bill into law this week that changes certain requirements for the state’s reverse mortgage borrowers, a move that the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) says could save money on closing costs. This will now be changed, according to provisions of the law as analyzed by the committee.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Snapdocs, a digital closing platform, recently announced that it is building Snapdocs eVault, a solution for the secure creation, storage and transfer of eNotes and other digital mortgage documents. At Snapdocs, we are working backwards from a future where mortgage closings are perfect,” King said. “So

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

nonbank mortgage lenders continue to gain market share as the industry consolidates and a number of smaller players exit the space due to a lack of strong franchises to retain sufficient volume, Fitch Ratings reported Tuesday. Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. Rocket Mortgage had purchase origination volume of $47.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The elevated interest rate environment has brought an old product, the assumable mortgage, back into fashion. Assumable mortgages remain a niche market compared to new mortgage issuance. An assumable mortgage enables qualified buyers to take over the seller’s mortgage terms, including the existing balance and interest rate.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

United Bank will consolidate its mortgage subsidiaries into one unified mortgage business amid the housing industry struggles with elevated interest rates. United Bank has been delivering mortgage services through three channels, including two mortgage subsidiaries — Crescent Mortgage Co. Crescent originated $155.7

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2020

We sat down with Nancy Alley, vice president of strategic planning at Simplifile and one of HousingWire’s 2020 Women of Influence, to talk about the rapid changes in the closing process as a result of the pandemic. Nancy Alley: We are at a turning point in the mortgage industry’s move to digital.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2024

The mortgage rate lockdown premise says that if rates rise, inventory can’t grow meaningfully. The idea is that nobody will trade their low mortgage rates to buy another home — even though this happened every week last year. With mortgage rates higher, will this stop inventory from growing year over year?

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2023

Mortgage rates continued rising for the third consecutive week, increasing to 6.96%, the highest level since November 2022. The uptick in mortgage rates came amid positive inflation news – the consumer price index rate showed cooling prices in June, rising just 3.0% Other mortgage indexes show rates ticking down.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The mortgage industry is still seeing record-breaking numbers, but those numbers have started to wane and lenders looking to succeed in a slow market need to begin preparations today. Recent trends indicate that the mortgage market is beginning to see the end of the refinance boom and enter a purchase heavy market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

Ellington Financial , the parent company of reverse mortgage industry lender and servicer Longbridge Financial , announced the successful closing of a new securitization backed by a pool of proprietary reverse mortgages initially originated by Longbridge. Line-of-credit versions are available in 18 states and D.C.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Guild Mortgage ’s acquisition of Academy Mortgage Corp. Final decisions on these employees are still being worked out based on the needs to wind down the current pipelines and close out the Academy business, she said. The acquisition of Academy’s retail assets is scheduled to close by the end of February.

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