Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Ellington Financial , parent company of top 10 reverse mortgage lender Longbridge Financial , reported a lower economic return for the fourth quarter of 2023, which was partially driven by net losses from Longbridge “and other positions,” according to CEO Laurence Penn. per share — Ellington chief financial officer J.R.

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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 The home equity loans balance was $24.7

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite mass layoffs in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation, mortgage professionals still see opportunities in the market. LenderPulse requests surveys from 24,000 mortgage professionals across the country on market trends and lender opportunities and challenges. in events to garner business. Roughly 36.3%

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

“I haven’t seen a dry spell like this in the time I’ve been in business,” Bob Yopko, president of First Equity Residential Mortgage , said of this year’s spring homebuying season. Mortgage rates tend to align with the 10-year U.S. “Mortgage rates should be 5.55%, not 6.5%,” he said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

Mars Bank — an independent community bank in Pennsylvania — offers mortgage lending, retail and commercial banking in six locations throughout the state. million across 234 loans in the past 12 months, according to the mortgage data platform Modex. Mars Bank held $520.8 million in assets as of June 30, 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

With few homeowners willing to give up their low mortgage rates, Mike Roberts has shifted his focus to targeting first-time homebuyers. A first-time homebuyer requires a tremendous amount of nurturing,” said Roberts, the president and founder of City Creek Mortgage. “A Niche loans consist of about 5% of Parkinson’s business. “It’s

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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

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 also define workflows and business rules for any mortgage product, including construction loans, manufactured home loans, home equity loans and bridge loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

For homeowners, ADUs can generate substantial rental income that assists homeowners in covering escalating property taxes and mortgage payments. Under this policy, lenders can include income earned from ADUs when underwriting their mortgage. The good news is that we are making progress at solving these problems.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates in the 6% range have frozen the housing market, forcing loan officers to find business outside their wheelhouses. With mortgage rates nearly doubling from the start of 2022, the LO, who has more than 20 years of experience in the industry, says it’s painful to see deals simply disappear. “I higher than last year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

California-based mortgage lender CMG Financial announced the integration of Shamrock Home Loans’ origination team, which will boost its presence in New England. Shamrock’s team originated about $300 million so far this year, per the mortgage platform Modex. That’s not the first addition to CMG this year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

the parent company of top five reverse mortgage lender Liberty Reverse Mortgage and PHH Mortgage Corp. Both companies will eventually be aligned under the name Onity Mortgage , but a timeline was not specified for wider implementation into the subsidiaries outside of “later this year.” Ocwen Financial Corp.,

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Construction Coverage , a company that reviews construction software, insurance, and financial products in order to assist property builders, recently released a new report taking a closer look at the divide between baby boomers’ and younger generations’ shares of metropolitan housing markets according to reporting at the Chicago Sun-Times.

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Marco Santarelli

MAY 11, 2024

Home Equity Softening, Not Disappearing The report highlights a slight decrease in the percentage of homes considered “equity-rich,” where the loan value is less than half the estimated market value. This signifies that homeowners, by and large, still hold a healthy level of equity in their properties.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

home sales in nearly 30 years as high mortgage rates frustrate buyers, the market is reshaping real estate once again, placing buyers on the back foot and swinging the pendulum back to favoring sellers. It’s a delicate balance between interest rates and equity. The second avenue for expanding inventory is new construction.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

In October 2023, the firm — which is known for its “buy before you sell” product that enables a mortgage lender to treat the client’s current home as sold while giving them the ability to sell their home on the open market for up to 90 days after buying their new property — launched a partner channel.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

A Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-sponsored Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) requires a borrower to be at or over the age of 62 to qualify for a loan, making baby boomers most of the new qualifying candidates for a HECM. A new report from Construction Coverage sourced by its researchers and data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We’ve had the sharpest and yet also the shortest recession in history, record-low mortgage rates leading to record origination volumes, and record home prices as housing demand far outstripped supply. How will the Federal Reserve respond to economic developments in 2022, and what will be the impact on mortgage rates?

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) in 2022 aimed to assess the state of the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program over a 20-year period. A study commissioned by the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

“It’s going to be competitive — thin margins, little business and LOs getting out of the industry,” Dave Krichmar, banker at Legend Lending Corporation, said of the mortgage industry in 2023. In turn, LOs will be fighting for a piece of the mortgage pie with less rate-sensitive mortgage products, just as they did in 2022.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2022

has agreed to buy mortgage servicing rights trading platform Blue Water Financial Technologies for a cool $101 million. Blue Water provides asset valuation, MSR distribution, MSR hedging and digital solutions to MSR investors and mortgage lenders. Canadian real estate tech firm Voxtur Analytics Corp.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

Since October of 2022, the share of buyers who are purchasing their home without a mortgage has been more than one quarter of the market. These all-cash homebuyers are happily avoiding the higher mortgage interest rates, which touched 7% in the fall of 2022 before trending down to the current rate of 6.28%.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Pink slips will arrive for 58 employees working in the mortgage business at Texana Bank in California, according to a Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification (WARN) sent to the state’s Employment Development Department. The lender’s guide to surviving this mortgage market. 5, according to the document reviewed by HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The housing market didn’t crash at all, in fact, more Americans bought homes with mortgages in 2021 than in 2020. mortgage rates, so on the mortgage rate side of the equation, it’s never been better. Housing permits are growing and this is a good thing for the economy and construction jobs. These households got sub-3.5%

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Realty Biz

AUGUST 5, 2023

Buying a new construction home has its pros and cons. There are also limitations regarding changes during construction and potentially longer commutes from commercial areas and schools. Locating a cheap house to build often means deviating from standard new construction. Different types of new homes can be less expensive.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Buyers may finally have a better selection of homes to choose from later in the year, but will face a renewed challenge of affordability as prices stay high and mortgage rates rise.”. This year, home prices have risen dramatically , mortgage rates hit record lows and inventory declined. by the end of the year.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 4, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Do you remember the good old days of pre-construction condominiums? I remember when, among other things, you could purchase a pre-construction condo with a mere 5% deposit. Nothing upon occupancy, and nothing until the condominium was set to close and you obtained a mortgage of 95% for the remaining amount.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Class Valuation, which itself is owned by private equity firm Gridiron Capital, said the acquisition of Metro-West would fit into its larger strategy of fusing tech tools such as automation and 3D measurements to help clear the well-documented capacity issues in appraisal. There’s been a surge in private equity investment in the U.S.

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RIS Media

DECEMBER 10, 2020

CoreLogic® recently released the Home Equity Report for the third quarter of 2020. homeowners with mortgages (which account for roughly 63 percent of all properties) have seen equity increase by 10.8 This marks the largest average equity gain since the first quarter of 2014. The report shows U.S. percent to 1.6

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Keeping Current Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The great news is that the money you need probably already exists in your current home in the form of equity. Home Equity Is Skyrocketing. The record-setting increases in home prices over the last two years dramatically improved homeowners’ equity. Mortgage rates are forecast to increase over the next year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Homebuilders responded to the shortage of homes for sale, accelerating new home construction, even as they face severe supply-side challenges, including rising building material costs and supply-chain bottlenecks, a lack of affordable lots, and difficulty in finding skilled labor. What about existing homes?

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Real Trends

MARCH 29, 2023

But when inflation and mortgage rates started to rise, the rush slowed. Here are a few trends and predictions I see happening with new construction buyers: Don’t expect massive price drops Here’s the reality: We will not see the massive price drop that occurred between 2008 and 2011. New homes began to linger on the market.

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Realtor.com

JANUARY 2, 2023

While purchasing new construction is indeed different from purchasing previously owned property, many misconceptions abound about new builds. With that in mind, we’re here to set the record straight on some easily busted new-construction myths that just won’t quit. New construction homes are more expensive.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Affordable Housing Program (AHP) requires that each of the 11 FHLBanks in America contributes 10% of the preceding year’s net income to the purchase, construction, or rehabilitation of homes. million, two-year partnership with the Urban Institute to create a racial equity accelerator program. In May, Sen.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

California-based Anchor Loans, founded in 1998, provides capital for professional residential real-estate investors through bridge and construction products. According to the transaction terms, American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company provided financing for the deal and acquired $1 billion of loans originated by Anchor.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s effort to temper inflation has cooled the housing market that remains subdued with mortgage rates north of 7%. this week, Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan believes that mortgage rates will stay elevated before the Fed makes further rate cuts. “We’ve Kim: Spreads in the mortgage space are wide.

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Marco Santarelli

APRIL 15, 2024

While the housing market has shown signs of stagnation with existing home sales at their lowest since 2010 and mortgage demand dropping significantly, most experts do not anticipate a crash in 2024. Mortgage rates , while still on the higher side, could see a dip by the end of the quarter, providing some relief to potential homebuyers.

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