Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

An affiliate of Paceline Equity Partners LLC , a private equity manager based in Texas, completed a debt investment in a subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc. Optimal Blue integrates with all the loan origination systems (LOSs). “We billion megadeal announced in May 2022. I think integration is key.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

homeowners are “house-rich, cash-poor,” home equity investment firm Hometap provides clients with a way to tap into their home equity instead of selling their home or taking out a loan. Read on for Hometap’s business model and areas of potential partnerships with other players in the housing industry.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) loans through its Tinman platform. We were focused on being able to take a consumer all the way through on our technology platform for just the conventional loans, and we achieved that milestone back in the summer of 2023. VA loans are 12% of the mortgage market,” Garg said. “VA Eligible U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

The demand for home-equity loans, particularly home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs) as well as shared-equity investment products, is now stronger than at any time since before the global financial crisis some 15 years ago. Those 17 deals were backed by home-equity collateral valued in total at $3.9

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Stubborn inflation and high interest rates continue to wreak havoc on the mortgage-origination market, but there is one asset class in the housing market that is arguably flourishing in these hard times – home equity. They are saying, ‘Tell me what’s working, how can I stand a program up so I can capture some of this [home-equity] business.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

I have been in the mortgage industry for more than two decades and have been working with reverse mortgages for about 12 of those years. This created a win-win for my parents and is a common reason older homeowners use a reverse mortgage: to leverage their home equity. None of those pressures exists with a reverse mortgage.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2023

Digital mortgage exchange and loan aggregator MAXEX announced on Monday it closed an equity investment round and partnerships to expand liquidity amid the recent market volatility. ” The deal with MAXEX expands access to a broad range of non-agency and agency-eligible mortgage loan programs.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“Mortgage credit availability declined slightly in August, as investors reduced their offerings of ARM and non-QM loan programs,” said Joel Kan, MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting. The post Lending standards tighten as appetite for riskier loans drops appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

The private mortgage insurance industry also supported $600 billion in mortgage originations. The mortgage insurance industry also updated its guides and processes to align with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the GSEs’ policies to implement nationwide forbearance programs. “The Presented by: Proctor Loan Protector.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

The refi boom is in our rearview mirrors and the road ahead looks promising for home equity volume. Who knows how high that volume could go, considering tappable equity is at a historic high of $11 trillion and total home equity at a record $27.8 How do you identify the right home equity partner? Excellent turn times.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mortgage tech firms Mortgage Coach and Polly have teamed up on a new application programming interface (API) integration that guides borrowers through a visual representation of their loan options. The goal is to help drum up business for lenders during an extremely challenging time in the industry. .

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2021

Private equity firms Flexpoint Ford and Vestar Capital Partners have bought Lereta LLC , a provider of real estate tax and flood solutions for mortgage servicers, the companies announced this week. The company claims to process over $17 billion in tax payments annually and monitors more than 25 million loans for flood determinations.

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2021

As reverse mortgage loan officers aim to expand their repertoire of advertising methodologies, the use of an advertorial can be powerful but also comes with some caveats that any reverse mortgage loan officer should keep in mind prior to engaging in such advertising campaigns. A couple of things. We just have to keep at it.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Joel Kan, associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting, at the Mortgage Bankers Association said rates could head even higher in 2022. “If Few industries are as impacted by market fluctuations as housing. But two categories are not as susceptible to higher interest rates: cash-out refis and home equity lines of credit.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

These trends have exacerbated industry overcapacity, leading to continual layoffs. The resizing of the housing industry will continue as mortgage lenders work to adjust to the new origination environment, said Shampa Bhattacharya, Fitch director of non-bank financial institutions. And don’t expect the layoffs to stop anytime soon.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

As a follow-up, HousingWire sat down with Peter Richter, co-founder and president at Flueid, to discuss why mortgage lenders should be asking for a quick, data-driven title check at loan application, rather than an instant title commitment, to understand and verify what’s going on with a property and consumer from the start.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Mangus then worked to build the dedicated reverse mortgage department at his new company from scratch and has found a notable degree of success by building Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P) business through the use of continuing education (CE) classes designed for licensed real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

The current volatility, combined with the likelihood of additional rate hikes on the horizon, has caused originators to focus on the purchase market as well as non-agency loan products like non-QM. Cost to originate a loan: In the manufacturing industry, it’s common to analyze standard costs.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

There are a lot of options including selling a house and downsizing, taking out a home equity loan or line of credit and entering into a reverse mortgage,” the column stated. Industry educators have long aimed to position a reverse mortgage as a financial planning tool for retirement. The beneficiaries can get more.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Rocket Mortgage is now offering a conventional loan option for buyers who want to purchase or refinance a manufactured home, which expands the home financing options in a rapidly shrinking industry. But not every manufactured home owner owns the land. billion in the second quarter from $53.8 billion in the first quarter.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

For the mortgage industry, the dash toward virtual solutions and reliable fintech was crucial to reigniting the journey for hopeful home buyers. Back then, the tech craze was booming, and the company’s founders recognized an opportunity to bring data and technology to the industry. trillion in home equity.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

A former high-ranking employee at nonbank The Change Company CDFI (TCC) filed a lawsuit in California accusing the company of retaliation after he notified executives of employees “mischaracterizing loans” to apparently skirt federal reporting requirements. Department of Treasury. ”

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

The current volatility, combined with the likelihood of additional rate hikes on the horizon, has caused originators to focus on the purchase market as well as non-agency loan products like non-QM. KPI – Cost to originate a loan: In the manufacturing industry, it’s common to analyze standard costs.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Shelley Giordano In 2019, the group exited the American College and reformed as the Academy for Home Equity in Financial Planning at the UIUC. The group will continue under the auspices of Mutual of Omaha, which currently stands as the second-largest lender in the reverse mortgage industry behind Finance of America Reverse (FAR).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

As financial institutions weather this shift in the market, every loan opportunity becomes more critical than the last. The survival tactic lenders too often miss is doubling down on loan quality to ensure immediate salability to investors or long-term servicing performance. Moving to a more robust software system boosted productivity.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

They are not selling and have a lot of equity in their homes. The elevated mortgage rate environment has created a mortgage rate lockdown effect of sorts, limiting the pool of customers for the mortgage industry. Homeowners in 2022 also tapped into their home equity, which peaked at $11.5

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2022

Lakeview Loan Servicing unveiled a rare private-label securities offering this past March involving a pool of mostly delinquent mortgages serviced by the company. The loans in the offering were all originated through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and later securitized through Ginnie Mae. In total, 99.3%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

We look forward to working with the enterprises, lenders, and other housing industry participants to further develop the ideas described in these plans.”. In its plan, Freddie Mac said it would purchase loans made with special purpose credit programs by lenders.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As we approach 2022, some concerning headwinds confront the mortgage origination industry. This includes focusing on capital/equity to ensure the foundation is strong, covenants are met and operational flexibility is maintained. In terms of managing financial risk, considerations include interest rate, market and reputation.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

Because of certain persistent reputational challenges faced by the reverse mortgage industry, it can be challenging for borrowers to find objective informational sources about the product category. A] reverse mortgage is a loan where you can borrow money against the value of your house,” Woods explained. “So,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Despite record-high home prices, home equity may not save some borrowers in forbearance from foreclosure, according to a Black Knight ’s report published Monday. Since 2010, around 10% of borrowers with more than 120 days in delinquency were referred to foreclosure, regardless of their equity.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If 30-year rates fall to 6% by the fourth quarter, as the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and Fannie Mae are currently predicting , the overall population of loans with a 75-bps refi incentive would more than double from 1.7 Nearly 60% of that growth would come from loans originated in 2023, ICE projected. million to 3.8

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

As home prices continue to rise, one growing point of interest for many homeowners are reverse mortgages, with older Americans sitting on a record $10 trillion in home equity, according to data from the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association. Older Americans are sitting on a record $10 trillion in home equity.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

San Francisco-based fintech firm Unison plans several securitization deals to market in 2022, with private label offerings backed by home-equity assets. Unison, through an REA contract, advances the homeowner a portion of the equity in the property in exchange for a lien position and a share of the home’s future appreciation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Reverse mortgage software and calculator provider Ibis Software announced this week that it appointed Robert Sivori, a reverse mortgage industry veteran, to its board of directors. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-approved Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) loan counselors.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

It will initially be made available for its home equity line of credit (HELOC) product first before being rolled out to other lending products. The DART System is pre-integrated with Figure’s origination and loan-sale services. “We Synergy One Lending is the first partner to use the platform, Figure said.

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