Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The construction activity is likely to place the housing industry and its financing partners on a “collision course” with insurers, the outlet said. Developers continue to build in these areas with few obvious signs of slowing, the story said. “La The area was still cleaning up from Helene when Milton hit.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

To help investors survive uncertain times, professionals must understand market trends and develop a game plan for success. Meet Danny van der Reis , a commercial real estate (CRE) finance veteran and executive vice president of servicing and asset management at Arbor Realty Trust.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

That’s where reverse purchase financing comes into play, the funding option specifically designed for older Americans. What is reverse purchase financing? We in the industry are very hopeful that this will be an eye-opener, especially for real estate agents and builders to start recommending this product to clients more regularly.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

Ascent Developer Solutions , a private mortgage lending platform, announced its launch Friday in conjunction with an equity infusion from Elliott Investment Management. Founder and CEO Robert Wasmund has a deep background in the residential construction and bridge lending industry. “We

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Kessler, a 48-year real estate industry veteran, served as Texas Realtors’ CEO and president for 14 years. “It’s been an honor to serve with an industry icon like Travis, whose dedication and contributions to theTexas real estate industry have left a tremendous legacy.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2025

Reverse mortgage professionals are preparing to travel to Irvine, California, for the industrys first event of the year, hosted by the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA). But NRMLAs board will also aim to look even further ahead by engaging members on-site about the potential dynamics of the industry beyond that scope.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Apollo orchestrated this transaction and now our partnership through Newfi provides the financing needed to grow this business and scale it to a higher level. It’s a complete financing solution that helps us ramp up and scale our production in the BPL sector. Multifamily developments have been picking up with a very strong start.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Pierpoint has served NAR for nearly four decades, including serving as CFO and as a staff executive to NARs Finance Committee for 20 years. Cenedella previously held the roles of chief operating officer and treasurer for the Womens Tennis Association (WTA), where he was tasked with financial development and member relations.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

The latest annual report from The Counselors of Real Estate highlights 10 major issues expected to impact the housing industry in 2024, but developers are painfully familiar with at least two of them: labor shortages and skyrocketing capital costs. Energy efficient homes open the door to new and better financing options.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

States, industry steps up While the SECURE Act was first introduced in Congress in early-2023, talk of the legislation and anything resembling it has stalled since then. The only state that is an outlier at the moment is Connecticut, where they excluded real estate finance transactions. The reality is quite the opposite.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

While the increased limit theoretically increases the borrowing power for anyone considering a HECM loan, industry analysts are somewhat split over the potential benefits such a limit would have on the industry in the new year. This is because interest rates remain relatively high even after some moderation.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

In mortgage finance and real estate , the only constant is change. Add to this the constantly shifting demographics of homebuyers, particularly as younger generations enter the market with different preferences and expectations and its clear that leadership in our industry isn’t for the faint-hearted. Why is this essential now?

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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. Assisting homebuyers and their agents adds more to an LO’s plate.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Dallas -based Certainty Home Lending , an affiliate of Guaranteed Rate , named Shadi Kamran as its new national business development executive. Our comprehensive product suite offers solutions for virtually every mortgage and home financing need,” Kamran said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

stock market, companies like Finance of America (FOA) and Ellington Financial — the parent of reverse lender Longbridge Financial — have recently released their third-quarter 2024 earnings results. In the case of FOA — the current industry leader — the earnings results were robust.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

Nominations for HousingWires 2025 Finance Leaders Award are open now through January 31, 2025. Click here to nominate a Finance Leader. to discuss the trends shaping the housing industry in 2025. Charlotte Simonelli: Weve found many use cases where we can leverage generative AI in finance.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Mutual of Omaha Mortgage ’s reverse division has launched a new program, “Broker Protect,” that aims to offer what it calls industry-first protections to brokers doing business with the company. If you’ve watched our development over the past several years, you’ve witnessed deliberate, strategic growth across all of our channels.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Freiha joins Opendoor after a three-year stint at Alphabet, where he started as Google ’s vice president of finance and oversaw commerce and payments before moving to capital allocations and planning. Prior to that, he spent 11 years at Intuit in product development roles. Prior to that, he worked in similar roles with eBay.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Better Home & Finance, the parent company of digital lender Better.com , launched its voice-based artificial intelligence loan assistant on Thursday. Better began partnering with big data firm Palantir in 2022 to develop the platform. is nearly $9,000.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Agency loans have limitations such as loan amounts, only allowing up to ten financed properties and they don’t accept five to nine units. We have access to and business purpose financing with loan amounts up to $10 million for builders, developers and experienced real estate investors.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2025

Rapid relief for wildfire victims Samara is partnering with Steadfast LA a nonprofit founded by developer Rick Caruso to provide free prefabricated homes to Los Angeles County residents who lost their houses in the January 2025 wildfires and lack the resources to rebuild. We create our own finance product, McNamara said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2025

The new program has $100 million behind it, according to reporting from CBS News , and will be managed by the California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA). Reverse mortgage industry professionals reacted positively to the news when reached by HousingWire ’s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD). ” According to data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), addressed industry attendees at the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) Annual Meeting and Expo in San Diego last week. David Berenbaum, deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Housing Counseling at the U.S. But, of course, there are also challenges.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2025

The answer lies in a remote corner of the mortgage industry: subservicing. While each deal represents a unique circumstance, they point to a broader industry truth: Scale has become increasingly critical as the cost of servicing continues to climb particularly for nonperforming loans. trillion as of Dec. 31, 2024, down from $3.99

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

MBA cannot control macroeconomic forces, but what we can do is make sure the actions of policymakers help our industry instead of hindering it at a crucial time,” Broeksmit said at the organization’s Compliance and Risk Management Conference this week in Washington, D.C. MBA is also keeping an eye on a developing case before the U.S.

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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 30, 2025

If the mortgage industry had a mantra at the start of last year, it was something like: Just survive to get to 2025. But while this fact might be daunting, I encourage my colleagues in this tumultuous industry to look at the situation another way. In autumn, focus on harvesting opportunities and preparing for the challenges of winter.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Housing industry experts attribute this to the states restrictive zoning laws. There is a real risk we may see reduced growth in economic development in the state, which has many ramifications. In 1925, the state Legislature passed the New Hampshire Zoning Enabling Act , which gave municipalities the right to zone their own land.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 13, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Shutterstock Industry Startup aims to bring assumable mortgages to the masses Could a new market emerge around homebuyers taking over a seller’s existing low interest rate loan? One proptech veteran thinks so. "It was almost shocking."

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

“Foreign capital is a major driver for real estate development around the world, but the US is still ill-equipped to deal with foreign investors. We are proud to support this exceptional multinational team in its vision and look forward to watching Waltz emerge as a category leader in the financial services industry.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced on Wednesday it has changed its proposal to amend the Suspended Counterparty Program (SCP), offering a less severe version after several trade groups raised concerns about its impacts on the mortgage market. housing finance system,” FHFA Director Sandra L.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

Top-five reverse mortgage lender Finance of America (FOA) has enlisted creative advertising agency David&Goliath (D&G) to serve as its new creative agency of record (AOR), following a competitive process including several other candidate agencies.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

Tim Bowler, President of ICE Mortgage Technology, has a clear, specific vision for the future of ICE Mortgage Technology and the mortgage industry. Can you tell us more about these investments and what they mean for the mortgage industry? HW: How do you ensure your products remain ahead of the curve in such a rapidly evolving industry?

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

One of the nations leading reverse mortgage lenders, Finance of America (FOA), posted strong first-quarter 2025 earnings results. These were often seen as a benefit to the wider industry by individual reverse mortgage professionals. But the company is aiming to try something new with its A Better Way With FOA campaign.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

Where the tech stack is today When asked to assess where the reverse mortgage technology stack sits today, Brian Conneen , the recently appointed chief information officer at Finance of America (FOA), said that the largest opportunity exists within digital customer experiences. Thats nothing but positive for the industry.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

However, the industry is approaching this cycle with caution. loanDepot’s focus is on the sales side, attracting experienced loan officers (LOs) and people who want to join the industry via its accelerated career in effective sales (ACES) program. We’ve been hiring, training and developing our people. in Q2 2024 from 1.7

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Despite a drop in overall profitability in the fourth quarter of 2024, FOA, one of the nations leading reverse mortgage lenders, remains optimistic about the total addressable market for home equity-based retirement products and will continue to develop its offerings in 2025.

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