Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

In the race to create a convenient, modern borrowing experience, many lenders have seized on native mobile apps as the next big thing in mortgage origination. Outside of mortgage, an estimated 99.5% Theres also the fact that a mortgage-specific app usually doesnt serve a function borrowers need on a daily or weekly basis.

Mortgages

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. Robert Gordon, a senior vice president at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association , told the Journal that mortgage lenders need to be more involved in these processes.

Construction

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced last week that the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) limit for 2025 will be $1,209,750. The recently announced increase to the HECM limit is exciting news for reverse mortgage borrowers,” she told RMD in a statement. Others are taking a more nuanced approach to the increase.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

Saluda Grade , an alternative investment firm with a focus on residential real estate finance, announced this week that it hired Jim Boothby as its head of global business development. Boothby has more than 25 years of experience in credit , business development and investor relations.

Development

Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2025

Welcome back to Tech Pulse — HousingWire ‘s weekly series rounding up the latest in technology news, including tools, integrations and trends that impact mortgage and real estate. Pushback follows FHFA Director Bill Pulte’s social media remarks signaling openness to crypto-backed mortgage assets. Developed with Lundy Inc.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2025

Mortgage lending has long catered to a bygone era of steady paychecks and W-2 forms, leaving millions of self-employed and gig economy workers underserved. But as the gig economy booms, lenders are finding success in the nonqualified mortgage ( non-QM ) sector by engaging with AI-powered tools like Prudent AI.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2025

As communities and organizations continue to reckon with the impact of the Los Angeles -area wildfires, the state is now stepping in with a new assistance program that will include impacted reverse mortgage borrowers whose homes were damaged or lost. The program’s eligibility guidelines explicitly include reverse mortgage borrowers.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2025

Legacy Group Capital on Tuesday at HousingWire’s The Gathering announced the expansion of its suite of consumer financing solutions. Its expanded solutions include: Buy-Before-You-Sell: Enables homeowners to purchase a new home before selling their current one, with flexible bridge financing that removes timing pressure.

Finance

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 now heres 2025, and its clear that mortgage rates arent falling the way wed hoped, and the market is going to take more time than we thought to find its new normal.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With several top 10 reverse mortgage lenders now active in some form within the U.S. 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.

Investor

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Rose singled out the declines in mortgage applications and originations among Black millennials as an exceptionally poor sign of the trajectory of Black homeownership, since that cohort of homebuyers contributes significantly to long-term wealth accumulation for Black families.

Pre-approval

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The CBO analyzed data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) data in its report. It noted that the GSEs were chartered to “ensure a stable supply of credit for mortgages nationwide, including those for low- and moderate-income households.” The increase was largely attributable to the way that FHFA developed its market forecast.”

Loans

Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

Reverse mortgages have a minimum age requirement that serves as a key differentiator for the product. But things seemed to take a step forward last week when one of the leading lenders in the space, Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. announced that it was implementing hybrid e-closings into its reverse mortgage processes.

Technology

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

CrossCountry Mortgage , a top-10 U.S. mortgage lender, has hired a team of former Pennymac Financial Services executives to lead its capital markets and investment-related activities. The team will develop and execute the company’s investment strategies, secondary market activities, and risk management, among other things.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The promotion applies to select homes in various housing developments across multiple cities. Magnolia Ridge, one of the participating housing developments in the Greater Houston deal, is offering $7,500 to $7,500 off select homes , with a few of the homes seeing prices drop from $289,200 to $244,990 and $248,590 to $239,990.

Fixed-rate mortgage

Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2025

Bidding wars for producing mortgage loan officers are back with a vengeance and it’s largely in the hopes of capitalizing on an upcoming refinance wave, recruiters and executives tell HousingWire. Mortgage companies are competing for a shrinking pool of talent. So far, that bet hasnt paid off entirely.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In 2024, a key element for the reverse mortgage industry was a sense of newfound collaboration that many industry participants felt with forward mortgage players. He also said he is encouraged by a greater role being played by other forward mortgage organizations in seeking out such partnerships. Mayer said.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2025

Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte announced the move in a social media post. The waiver pilot , relaunched by Fannie Mae in March 2024, allows approved mortgage lenders to use an automated title review process to assess title risk during loan manufacturing and prior to loan purchase.

Title

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.

Mortgages

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.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2025

Five Senate Democrats are raising concerns about the potential risks of using unconverted cryptocurrency assets in mortgage underwriting, urging the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to tread carefully. Companies that currently offer crypto-backed mortgages include Miami-based Milo and Toronto-based lending platform Ledn.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced this week that the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) limit for 2025 will be $1,209,750. The HECM limit is unique when compared to FHA limits that govern Title II forward mortgage lending programs. But seniors hold onto a large portion of the nation’s housing wealth.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

Following other recent proprietary product development news, Longbridge Financial announced on Friday the launch of a new variation for its private fixed-rate reverse mortgage offering. Platinum Peak is now available in at least two reverse mortgage loan origination systems (LOS) for brokers.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Our economy faces many challenges persistent high mortgage interest rates , a declining rate of existing home sales, elevated costs for basic goods and services, labor market imbalances, and rising health care costs to name just a few. The FHLBanks are also key players in affordable housing and community development initiatives.

Lending

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The reverse mortgage division of Rate formerly known as Guaranteed Rate recently announced the hiring of reverse industry veteran Jesse Allen as the president for Rates reverse lending division as the company heads into 2025. Naturally, this includes reverse mortgages, he explained. That role is an active one, Allen said.

Mortgages

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. Better claims it has funded more than $100 billion in mortgages since 2016.

Loans

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) this week announced a new final rule establishing affordable housing goals for the loan purchases of government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from 2025 through 2027. The goals, originally proposed in August , are largely unchanged from the initial draft.

Finance

Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Last week, business-purpose residential mortgage lender Dunmor announced that it received a minority equity investment from Newfi Lending , a nonagency mortgage lender owned by funds managed by Apollo Global Management. It’s a complete financing solution that helps us ramp up and scale our production in the BPL sector.

Residential

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A California regulator has revoked the residential mortgage lending license of LoanSnap , the latest in a series of difficulties for the fintech lender. The company — which is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California — also lost its mortgage lender license in Connecticut earlier this month.

Lending

Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2025

Finance of America (FOA) continued its recent streak of growth in the second quarter of 2025, funding $602 million in mortgages and producing $80 million in net income. As demand builds among a rapidly growing demographic, we believe Finance of America will continue to lead this market and deliver long-term value.”

Equity

Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2025

Pittsburgh-based lender Kiavi on Monday announced the hirings of Tom Hallock and Robert Jayne as the company seeks to grow its construction financing segment to better meet the needs of real estate investors. Hallock has decades of prior experience in construction financing and real estate investment lending.

Lending

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.

Finance

Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2025

mortgage market is undergoing a tectonic shift, and Non-Qualified Mortgage (Non-QM) lending is at the epicenter of this transformation. Once viewed as a niche or transitional product, non-QM lending now represents around 5 percent of today’s mortgage market, according to a recent CoreLogic report. The workforce has evolved.

Lending

Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2025

Over the past 12 months, Jason Stultz of Caliver Beach Mortgage has been on quite a hot streak. The Maryland-based mortgage broker has originated roughly $193 million in reverse mortgages in that time — easily the most production of any LO in the industry, according to mortgage data platform Modex. The Money House Inc.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Monday unveiled its three-year plan for the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to improve housing opportunities in underserved areas. The DTS plans aim to address a lack of liquidity across manufactured housing, affordable housing preservation and rural housing.

Development

Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

In the meantime, states, RON providers and those putting the technology to use have stepped up to create a well-functioning status quo in the absence of federal guidelines, according to William Kooper, vice president of state government affairs and regulatory policy with the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The two are very similar.

Title

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The most positive development in the housing market over 2024 has been the increase in active housing inventory , which is approaching the levels seen in 2019. Now, as we look ahead to 2025, the market is in a much better position if mortgage rates fall toward 6%, something that wasnt the case before.

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