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FAR parent updates investors on AAG integration, business performance

Housing Wire

The company also provides commentary for its fourth quarter 2023 financial performance, assesses its market advantages and offers an assessment of impacts stemming from changes in Ginnie Mae ’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Securities (HMBS) program.

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Home prices and mortgages keep rising, and it might get worse still

Housing Wire

Purchase loans comprised about 82% of overall mortgage lending in 2023 and ICE forecasts purchase lending to continue to dominate the market through next year. Alongside rising interest rates, the average equity withdrawal among cash-out refinances has also risen by nearly 90% from its low in 2020.

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Pennymac posts first-quarter profit of $39M

Housing Wire

PennyMac Financial reported strong operating earnings in the first quarter, with an annualized operating return on equity of 15 percent in what is expected to be the one of the smallest quarterly origination markets of this cycle,” chairman and CEO David Spector said in a news release. That was less than the $38.1

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Announcing the 2023 HW Insiders!

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Name Job Title Company Name Aaron Kardell Vice President of Product Lone Wolf Technologies Aayaam Kapoor Vice President of Product and Agency Real Estate Webmasters Amaly Quiroz Vice President of Transaction Operations eXp Realty Amy Gorce CEO REdistribute Andrew Binkley President Constellation Real Estate Group Ankur Bansal President of HomeLight (..)

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Private-label securities are in demand as investors bet Fed peak is reached

Housing Wire

Keith Lind , CEO of Acra Lending , a leading non-QM lender, said the PLS market is “fully healthy and functional, and I think it’s going to get better.” “There’s a lot of demand from investors that want to buy these bonds backed by non-QM, but there’s only so many loans to be bought to securitize,” Lind said. “So

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Options to Unlock Your Home Equity When Finances Are Tight

HomeLight

If you need assistance navigating the financial or tax implications of unlocking your home’s equity, HomeLight always encourages you to reach out to your own advisor. homeowners with mortgages (roughly 62% of all properties) saw their equity increase by a total of more than $3.8 What is home equity? According to CoreLogic , U.S.

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IMBs have a duty to serve lower-income communities

Housing Wire

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently observed that across all kinds of financial services, activities that had once been principally the province of banks have moved into the nonbank sector, including IMBs. Bank CRA obligations cover far more than their mortgage lending.

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