Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO), a subsidiary of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), has been developing a series of uniform technology standards that will ideally allow for the somewhat siloed reverse mortgage industry to more easily collaborate with others in the mortgage finance ecosystem.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

The company analyzed a portfolio of residential , commercial and business-purpose loans totaling approximately $80 billion. of these transactions contained issues that could lead to fraud, with each problematic loan averaging 2.5 It found that 46.8% errors the highest number on record.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2024

Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Sandra Thompson recently announced its conditional approval of Freddie Mac pilot to purchase second mortgages. Second mortgage loans are specifically authorized in Freddie Mac ’s charter [Section 305(a)(4) – 12 USC 1454(a)(4)]. That is where the Freddie Mac second mortgage comes in.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

New York Community Bancorp , the parent of Flagstar Bank , said it’s still committed to the home loan business despite selling approximately $5 billion in warehouse mortgages to JPMorgan Chase Bank to improve its capital and liquidity position. market share, according to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

One such solution includes the Edge Platform —designed to survey loan portfolios and identify recapture opportunities based on current mortgage rates. Chris Kennedy: Recapture is refinancing the customer into a new loan. It’s the quintessential function of a mortgage servicer.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2025

Banking and mortgage technology company nCino made a large reduction in force (RIF) ahead of its quarterly earnings call on Wednesday. ” nCino, based in North Carolina, makes a cloud-based banking system that is used for commercial banking and mortgage, including a popular loan origination system. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Rithm owns multichannel mortgage lender and servicer Newrez. It has made a slew of acquisitions in the credit and mortgage servicing sectors over the past two years. A year prior, it acquired Sculptor Capital Management , along with Computershare Mortgage Services and Specialized Loan Servicing (SLS). ”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

A bill introduced into the Oregon Senate that seeks to limit the amount of equity a reverse mortgage lender can receive after the sale or transfer of a property could potentially halt the availability of proprietary product offerings in the state. It’s a nonrecourse loan that is negatively amortizing, and balances increase over time.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

When reverse mortgage professionals from Australia and New Zealand made the long journey to San Diego last year to attend the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) Annual Meeting and Expo, they were ready to learn about the core differences between the businesses in a different part of the world.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The best hard money loans for real estate depend on your investment strategy, whether youre financing a short-term flip, a rental property or a large-scale development. Youll also learn how hard money loans work, what it takes to get approved and key factors to consider before applying.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

After two years of limited demand, private equity and insurance companies are increasing their allocations to single family residential mortgages. These strong fund flows are resulting in tighter credit spreads, higher prices, and an increased focus on sourcing new originations.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Finance of America Companies (FOA) has entered into an agreement to sell the operational assets of its Finance of America Commercial vertical to Roc Capital Holdings LLC. The deal will offload an FoA subsidiary division that offers residential real estate investment loans.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

In an era of high mortgage rates and stagnant home sales , a real estate transaction model is making waves by reintroducing and standardizing a once-popular financing method. Seller financing spans residential, commercial and land transactions, with residential making up 63% of all deals over the past three years, Note Investor reported.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

California-based mortgage brokerage Loan Factory was sued by a class of loan originators, who allege that the company used their personal and professional information, without their authorization, on its website in an attempt to drive business. He declined to comment further.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Bankrupt retail lender AmeriFirst Financial is seeking approval for a private sale of loans from a Delaware bankruptcy judge to pay off two warehouse lenders and fund restructuring costs. If approved, AmeriFirst’s retail and commercial loans worth more than $5 million will be sold to a non-QM lender Oaktree Funding Corp.,

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Mortgage applications are now at their highest level in more than two years after an 11% jump during the week ending Sept. 20, according to the newest weekly applications survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Purchase loan applications saw more modest increases of 0.4% on mortgages with 80% loan-to-value ratios.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2024

After reaching their highest level since July 2022 , mortgage applications have declined for two straight weeks, counteracting some recent positive signs for a still-sputtering housing industry. According to weekly data released Wednesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), applications shrank 5.1% of new applications.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Veteran mortgage executive Bill Dallas has left his position as president of Finance of America Mortgage amid larger changes to the Texas-based nonbank lender’s C-Suite and business lines. His exit was first reported by Inside Mortgage Finance. Dallas did not immediately return requests for comment.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Nearly half (48%) of a $65 billion portfolio of loans processed during the first quarter of 2024 contained vulnerabilities to wire and title fraud , according to a report released Wednesday by FundingShield. The portfolio of loans examined included residential, commercial investor and business purpose loans.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Heartland Bank , the leading reverse mortgage lender in Australia and New Zealand , will rebrand its dedicated reverse mortgage division from “Heartland Finance” to “Heartland Bank” following a recent acquisition and a repositioning of its offerings. “We dollars. “The billion AUD, or roughly $1.2 billion USD.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Wednesday updated its capital requirements for private mortgage insurers and allowed rules established during the COVID-19 pandemic to sunset. They establish limits for assets backed by residential or commercial real estate and mitigate the impact if the assets lose value.

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Mortgages Commercial Loans Finance 430

Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Expect 2024 to be mildly better than 2023 with mortgage rates falling in the second half of the year, housing experts opined in their forecasts at the end of the year. The pessimism is visible in mortgage rates. Freddie Mac ‘s weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey is climbing back towards 7%.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Sears cited the trade group’s efforts in advocating for changes in VA loan procedures. Those utilizing mortgages from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs can still use their loan benefit when working with a buyer’s agent regardless of how their agent is being compensated. Let’s protect the consumer; let’s work together.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The demise of those banks, which had relied in part on friendly terms on jumbo mortgage loans to entice wealthier clients, had lasting effects on the mortgage landscape – as part I and part II of our jumbo series show. This time, it is not their depositors, but their loan recipients. ” Days later on Feb.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Amid higher rates, lower volumes, and fiercer competition , Santander Bank decided it will stop originating residential mortgages and home equity loans in the United States. The Spanish bank said it will continue to service current loans and honor pending borrowers’ applications. mortgage industry are in the past.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Buffalo, New York-based mortgage technology firm LenderLogix , a top provider of point-of-sale (POS) and automation software for independent mortgage banks , commercial banks and third-party brokers, announced Thursday that Ben Head will join the company as an account executive.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

BOK Financial recently announced the launch of its new mortgage finance line of business, a new vertical dedicated to meeting the credit needs of nonbank mortgage originators across the country. The addition of mortgage finance will create a full-service ecosystem tailored to the needs of the company’s client base.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Das, a former CEO of Caliber Home Loans , will begin his new role on Oct. Das spent six years as CEO of Caliber Home Loans — a NewRez -owned residential mortgage lending company — until January 2022. Pagaya also offers personal loans, auto loans, credit cards and point-of-sale (POS) financing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

I did residential, I did commercial, you name it. But his first big test came in the mid-1980s during the savings and loan crisis a time when the mortgage market dried up and title companies were hit hard. Stone has previously served as vice chairman of Metrocities Mortgage and as chairman of Austin-based The Stone Group.

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Title Residential Industrial Commercial 365

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Investment bank Goldman Sachs , through its affiliate Goldman Sachs Mortgage Co., has sponsored 18 private-label transactions so far in 2021 backed by more than 20,000 loans valued collectively at $9.9 Also, home-price appreciation means more loans are falling into the jumbo loan category.”.

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Loans Due diligence Residential Mortgages 410

Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

First Internet Bank is shutting down its consumer mortgage business due to a steep decline in mortgage volumes and the negative outlook for mortgage lending that is forecasted to continue for the next several years. The residential mortgage loan balance for First Internet was $383.9

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Banks Mortgages Lending Commercial 421

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Less than a year after coming to the rescue of Signature Bank during the market turmoil of March 2023, New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) faces a confidence crisis due to its exposure to commercial real estate loans. According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates, Flagstar originated $15.7 It also had $84.3

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Mortgages Banks Marketing Commercial 437

Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

According to Cangem, the substantial Fed policy shift last year resulted in significantly higher residential mortgage rates. It harmed the business, as the higher rates caused all mortgage activity to slow. billion in loans, according to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings. million loans as of December 31, 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

… So when you look at Rocket’s strength in mortgage with Redfin’s leadership and home search and brokerage, what we’re doing is simply allowing our broker network to get access to a bigger ecosystem,” Krishna elaborated. ” “We think about it more like opportunity.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Indiana-based First Savings Bank plans to lay off over 100 mortgage employees in the coming months, according to documents filed with authorities in multiple states. News of the plans come as political instability and a strong job market push mortgage rates closer to 8%. In Michigan, 18 will be impacted on Nov.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2023

The company will focus on full-servicing banking and mortgage servicing businesses, it announced on Thursday. The origination activity will cease effective July 31, 2023, but all outstanding mortgage loans will continue to be serviced in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreements. said in a statement.

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