Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Better Home & Finance Holding Co. , The operating model change involved Better pivoting to hiring experienced loan officers on commission-based compensation plans. Previously, the lender had higher fixed-cost components and no commissions for its loan officers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

More recently, we’ve been hiring loan officers, processors and underwriters as the company has been starting to grow,” Garg said. Better Home & Finance Holding Co. , The VA team reflects a different strategy for the company when hiring employees, Garg added. The company posted a loss of $340 million in the third quarter.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2023

Older Americans are sitting on more than $12 trillion in home equity, according to the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA)/ Riskspan Reverse Mortgage Market Index. These homeowners are seeking different retirement solutions to help allocate their home equity and make it more durable over the next 20 to 30 years.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

With the central bank expected to cut interest rates this year, banks reported that loan demand should strengthen across residential loan categories in 2024, according to the Fed’s quarterly senior loan officer opinion survey (SLOOS) released on Monday. The survey showed that a net 25.5%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Banks have tightened lending standards for most categories of residential real estate (RRE) loans and home equity lines of credit (HELOC) over the third quarter of 2023. The survey, fielded quarterly by the central bank, asks loan officers about topics such as changes in lending terms as well as household demand for loans.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

OJO Labs announced its first foray into fintech on Thursday with its acquisition of Digs, a personal finance platform. With this acquisition, OJO Labs hopes to help homebuyers and homeowners navigate financial responsibilities like saving for a down payment, securing the right lender, building equity and saving for renovations.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As a result, homeowners either must sell their current home and suffer through double moves and short-term rentals to access the equity they’ve accrued, or they have to make contingent offers that require the sale of their current house to close. Consequently, 37% of homeowners say they want to move but are staying in their current home.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2023

California lender New American Funding has partnered with EasyKnock, a New York startup that buys homes and rents them back to sellers, allowing clients to access their home equity through non-traditional means. Homeowners can convert their equity to cash by selling their homes to EasyKnock and staying on as renters.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

A passion for technology led her to work in the fintech and blockchain spaces, and she has now turned her attention to the senior finance space by founding a company called Graceful Finance. I came to their offices to speak to their loan officers, processors and customers because they told me, ‘We would love to do more.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2022

Redfin completed its acquisition of Bay Equity Home Loans , paying $137.8 million for the mortgage lending operation in its quest to provide customers “a one-stop shop” where they can buy, sell, rent and finance a home, according to a news release from the company. The purchase price “represents a $72.5 Presented by: 1000watt.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

According to the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System, NEXA had 2,385 sponsored mortgage loan officers as of Thursday. NEXA was founded in 2017 after Kortas and Grella left Equity Prime Mortgage. Roughly 1,845 were considered “active” by Modex.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

During the second-quarter earnings season, executives from publicly traded mortgage lenders detailed their forays into jumbo loans, non-qualified mortgages, reverse mortgages, home equity products and even personal loans. Jumbo loan volume increased 3.1% ” Tapping that equity.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

These include the integration of forward mortgage professionals into the reverse mortgage business, how the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) limit for 2024 could end up impacting the industry, and the openness of both clients and referral partners to reverse mortgage conversations.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

They are not selling and have a lot of equity in their homes. Homeowners in 2022 also tapped into their home equity, which peaked at $11.5 trillion in the second quarter of 2022, capitalizing on home equity loans and home equity line of credit (HELOC). Or will soon.

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HomeLight

AUGUST 31, 2022

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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They’re using a DPA program through the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (NJHMFA). They made good money, but with student loans and car payments, they didn’t have the money for the down payment and closing costs,” Saller said. The DPA share in FHA’s total book of business, including refinances, was 27% as of October 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

If the traditional practice of sellers paying for both sides of the agents ends, housing agencies will have to weigh in to determine ways for buyers to finance their agents’ comp, LOs noted. One of the top loan officers in the nation has set up webinars that he does four times a week and he is building up his own pipeline.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2022

In a move the Federal Housing Finance Agency said will bolster sustainability and equity, servicers for federally backed loans will obtain and maintain fair lending data. The data will stay with the loan throughout the mortgage term, regardless of whether the servicing rights change hands. Presented by: Selene Finance.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) officially implemented an updated pricing framework for Loan-Level Price Adjustments (LLPAs) in May to improve homeownership prospects for first-time homebuyers with lower income and weaker credit scores. We spoke to multiple loan officers and Washington, D.C.-based

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Equity Prime Mortgage (EPM) has completely shifted to the TPO business after seeing growth opportunities in the wholesale channel, a distribution channel that’s been growing in recent years. Many of EPM’s retail loan officers transitioned to Informed Mortgage , a lender Carpitella launched in August.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Total Expert’s Customer Intelligence drives hundreds of new originations by looking for signals from customers of a need for mortgage financing. If you were the lender that provided the customer’s last loan, you’re usually out. This is key to overcoming borrower retention issues, a common struggle.

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Real Trends

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Real estate professionals navigating housing in 2022 and beyond need to know their way around all the financing options available. Without knowledge of lesser-known financing choices, real estate professionals can miss the chance to turn their customers into homeowners, or sellers. . Shared equity financing.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The newly formed board has 10 voting member seats consisting of four lenders, four brokers, BAC chief advocacy officer and co-founder Brendan McKay , and CEO and co-founder Katie Sweeney. BAC also created seven nonvoting roles that include vendor advisory roles and a leadership council.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

“This resolution will provide critical relief to impacted Black and Hispanic communities, enabling them to buy a home, keep their home or access the equity in their home,” Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

The MBA estimates the 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($647,200 or less) increased to 6.58% for the week ending December 30 from 6.42% in the previous week. For jumbo loans (greater than $647,200), rates remained at 6.12%. “At the same time, equity in homes is the highest it’s been out there.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This week, American Financing Corporation reduced employee headcount by almost two thirds and power buyer Homeward slashed 25% of its workforce as the companies faced headwinds. Aurora, Colorado-based American Financing Corporation has started to layoff 63.6% American Financing Corporation originated $4.13 PenFed originated $5.74

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It’s also made a push to hire teachers and first responders to be loan officers. billion in loan volume between June 2020 and June 2021. The holding company will invest in finance, insurance, and real estate businesses. Since 2004, they claim to have created $4 billion in equity value to investors.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2021

The prospective merger – relatively rare for a nonbank mortgage lender – would create an organization with approximately $2 billion in assets and more than $300 million in equity capital, the companies said in a joint release. According to Inside Mortgage Finance, Cornerstone, independently held, is a top-50 mortgage lender.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2023

Atlanta-based Equity Prime Mortgage (EPM) has decided to focus its investments on the wholesale channel amid the most challenging mortgage market in decades. This has resulted in the company closing branches and laying off loan officers on the retail side. “Wholesale is growing.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach merged in June in an undisclosed deal, six months after private equity firm LLR Partners invested $80 million in both firms. I was told that after looking at their finances, the company decided to eliminate some positions,” a former employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said. “We’ve

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2022

UWM’s price-matching guarantee included competitors such as Amerisave, Amwest Funding , NewRez/Caliber Home Loans , Cardinal Financial, Carrington Mortgage Services , Citizen Bank/Franklin American , CMG , Equity Prime Mortgage , Finance of America Mortgage , Flagstar Bank , Freedom Mortgage Corp.,

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2023

To determine eligibility for the CCM Smart Start program or obtain further information, individuals are encouraged to reach out to a CCM loan officer. At least one occupying borrower must be a first-time homebuyer, and the applicants must have an income at or below 80% of the county area median income (AMI).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

billion in mortgage loans in 2023, according to Kortas. As of Monday, the company had 2,391 sponsored mortgage loan officers, per the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS). NEXA’s businesses America’s largest mortgage brokerage, NEXA originated $6.29 But that’s not the case for the aviation business. “But

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

nationally, per Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates. The company hopes to reach its goal by growing organically with more loan officers under a dozen business development managers. Now under pressure in a shrinking market, they see their top loan officers transition to other competitors.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2022

The capital raise refers to the company announcing it has secured $70 million in equity and $150 million in new debt to “power its payment platform that helps customers finance their dream homes,” according to a news release. It was in December that Knock floated a pay cut for its loan officers, before rolling back the plan.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

A seasoned retail and commercial banking salesman in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 39-year-old Woodward joined Interfirst Mortgage as a loan officer in October 2020 after a recommendation from an old college friend. That was just over 45% of the company’s mix, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. The closer, the better.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2022

Founded in 2003 by mortgage broker Ron Leonhardt, CrossCountry originated $52 billion in mortgages in 2021, up 22% year-over-year, checking in as the 17th biggest lender in the country, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. It has about 350 loan officers and roughly 100 retail branches. . LendUS doesn’t have quite the same heft.

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