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All-cash transactions gain traction amid high mortgage rates: Redfin

Housing Wire

Affluent Americans (or investors) are the only ones who can bypass the sting of high mortgage rates by paying all cash. It is worth noting that some buyers are using equity from the sale of their previous home to make a relatively larger down payment on their new purchase. Meanwhile, military VA loans represented 6.3%

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Fannie Mae’s chief economist on housing market outlook

Housing Wire

For one thing, no fixed-income investor thinks that mortgage-backed securities with 7% mortgage rates will be there when the Fed finishes the inflation fight. So you’re having to encourage investors with wider spreads to accept that. For existing homeowners, that’s good news because it means equity accumulation.

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How the PLS market is making money on delinquent loans 

Housing Wire

Since then, Lakeview has unveiled two additional PLS offerings involving pools of delinquent FHA loans also securitized via Ginnie Mae. The more recent offerings — Lakeview Trust 2022-EBO2, which closed in late April; and Lakeview Trust 2022-EBO3, set to close in early June — also involve EBO loans, according to KBRA ratings reports.

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Hours before its IPO fizzled, Guild Mortgage agreed to pay $25M to settle federal lawsuit

Housing Wire

Just before its stock debuted at a disappointing $15 a share, Guild Mortgage settled a federal lawsuit that claimed the lender knowingly breached legal requirements when it originated and underwrote FHA loans. Through Guild Holdings, the lender’s management and the private equity investors planned to issue 8.5

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New report shows who took advantage of the Covid refi boom

Housing Wire

When broken down by investor type, 38% of U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs mortgages outstanding as of the first quarter of 2020 were refinanced by the end of 2021, compared to 25% of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage loans and 22% of Federal Housing Administration mortgages. ”

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Agents, do you know all of the financing options available to your customers?

Real Trends

“With housing affordability at an all-time low and interest rates on the climb, it’s important that homeowners have alternative options to access their home equity without selling or taking on additional debt,” said Michael Gifford, CEO of Splitero , a financial technology company that helps homeowners access home equity. .

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Guild Mortgage is going public – Let’s look at the numbers

Housing Wire

By the looks of it, unnamed investors will be the beneficiaries of the IPO, likely the private equity backers at McCarthy. of Guild’s loans in 2019 were conventional, 21.2% were FHA loans, and 12.9% “Guild will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of the shares in this offering.”.

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