Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Home-equity lending overall found its wings in 2023 as a number of independent mortgage banks ramped up product lines over the course of the year — despite a bump in the road in the third quarter when mortgage rates surged past 7%. Market indicators so far appear tentatively promising. from $490 billion in the second quarter.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The company has an aggressive marketing goal to reach the No. Citis previous use of the URL was to redirect to learning center content within the home lending pages on the Citi domain, according to Head of Mortgage Marketing at Citi, Chip Burgard. Market share and brand authority Why launch this site now?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This is in line with some other proprietary reverse mortgages and seven years lower than the age requirement for the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program offered by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). But FOA contends that HomeSafe Second represents a better value proposition than a traditional HELOC.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

But when confronted with volatility in the markets, advisors who are more concerned with the risk of loss might start to slowly open themselves up to more conversations. While most of the broader tariffs have since been delayed by at least 90 days , theyre not all lifted and the market reacted tepidly in active trading on Thursday.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

With soaring home prices and mortgage rates putting a damper on the market for new home loans and refinancing options, it’s a challenging time for homebuyers and lenders alike. While the current climate may be causing existing-home sales and inventory to fall, it’s driving renewed interest in home equity options.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Home equity levels among U.S. Among the lesser anticipated consequences, high amounts of home equity can limit the amount of financial aid that some prospective college students are eligible for. Generally speaking, homeowners also appear reluctant to tap into their home equity despite its meteoric growth over the past five years.

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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. Apollo has 16 lending platforms in the U.S. and one of them is Newfi, which is a non-QM lender.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Home equity lending in 2023 grew by only 1.5% The data includes total originations of open-ended home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) and closed-end home equity loans. Home equity originations were relatively flat in 2023 compared to 2022,” Walsh said in a statement. billion per company in 2023, compared with $2.1

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Ongoing supply and affordability challenges in the housing market have frustrated many homeowners who have looked to trade up or relocate for various reasons. The market for renovation projects is a lucrative one for homebuilders and contractors. And there are now 32 million borrowers who have at least $100,000 in tappable equity.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Recent home price declines are leading to decreased tappable equity, but there are still opportunities in home equity lending, according to a report published by Home Equity Lending News. Tappable home equity is expected to decrease to a forecasted $18.1 trillion at the end of this year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

In this conversation, the duo explore niche lending, second lien product opportunities and demand for non-QM. Deephaven’s focus on non-QM lending is expected to drive its volume past $80 billion in 2025. Davis: Either you take market share or someone takes yours, right? Diego: Why the push into home equity ?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It also wants to widely deploy refreshed marketing strategies that are designed to both educate and appeal to older homeowners about the use of home equity in retirement. In 2025, it will begin rolling out new regional and local programs designed to “build our brand profile and drive business in strategic markets,” she said.

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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 offering documents. billion.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Los Angeles area-based mortgage lender Premier Plus Lending announced last week that it is expanding into the senior-focused home equity market with a new division, Retirement Mortgage Solutions , which will include reverse mortgages and other home equity-based lending instruments.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

During last week’s earnings call, PennyMac Financial Services chairman and CEO David Spector said during a Q&A with investors and analysts that the company’s goals include continued growth in its broker direct channel and 10% market share by the end of 2026 a goal of more than 100% growth over the next 18 months.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

Americas housing market isnt just cooling its frozen in place. Banks and credit unionsmany of which depend on mortgage activity to fuel lending, gather deposits, and generate fee incomeare facing an extended drought. Unlike existing owners, these buyers have no low-rate loan to protect, no equity to leverage, and no fallback.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Guild’s current reverse lending division, built off its 2023 acquisition of Cherry Creek Mortgage , has expanded its reverse mortgage activities this year. When asked during the earnings call about what the company sees in the home equity lending space, Schmidt said that the opportunities in reverse stand out. “We

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2025

Peter Sciandra Fairway has led the way in digital mortgage closings, completing over 200,000 e-closings for our forward mortgages since 2017, said Peter Sciandra, EVP of reverse lending operations and secondary at Fairway. This is according to Tom Evans, EVP of marketing and technology for reverse at Fairway.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Real estate technology firm Knock announced Thursday that its bridge loan product is being integrated into the borrower application process at Baltimore -based NFM Lending. NFM loan officers will be automatically notified when a homeowner can tap into the equity of their current home to buy a new one before selling.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Nashville, Tennessee-headquartered Defy Mortgage is the latest player to join the non-QM (non-qualified mortgage) lending space, which targets entrepreneurs and gig workers who have various forms of collateral, including cryptocurrency. We are able to count it as liquidity from a reserve requirement and for asset depletion.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

billion in equity. ” Rocket and Redfins approaches to lending and brokerage service have always been two halves of one vision to make the whole home-buying process magical, said Glenn Kelman , CEO of Redfin.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

trillion in mortgage debt, pushing mortgage holder equity to a new high of $17.6 On top of that, tappable home equity reached a new high of $11.5 roughly three in five — now have at least $100,000 in tappable home equity, which refers to the amount of equity they can access while maintaining a stable 20% equity “cushion.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Rising home prices have pushed the third quarter’s tappable home equity amount near its 2022 peak, but interest rates are making homeowners reluctant to extract that wealth. Rising equity levels are also contributing to low default and foreclosure activity. In 2024, roughly 75% of originations expected to come from purchase loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

The company’s management portfolio will reportedly rise to 230,000 units across 50 markets. Evernest already offers services including brokerage , maintenance, renovation, insurance and lending. Evernest and Poplar have each achieved national recognition on the Inc. 5000 list in the past.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Wells Fargo announced on Monday that it has expanded its $10,000 down payment grant program for underserved borrowers to an additional 12 metro areas, more than a year after initially launching it in eight markets. “We Wells Fargo’s Homebuyer Access program is available to borrowers who earn 120% or less of the area median income (AMI).

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Describing the modern-day mortgage market as challenging would be an understatement, to say the least. The average rate throughout 2024 for 30-year fixed mortgages was 6.72% higher than it was during the 2008 market crash. It reflects another pressing issue of imbalanced supply and demand in the housing market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

HighTechLending , a California -based top-10 reverse mortgage lender, announced on Friday that it is rebranding its wholesale lending division to American Senior Lending Wholesale Division in an effort to better align its identity with key business lines designed to serve older borrowers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Digital homeownership company Better.com on Thursday announced a record 400% growth in its home equity line of credit ( HELOC ) and home equity loan businesses. were considered “equity rich” in Q4 2024, meaning that the underlying mortgage debt did not exceed 50% of the home’s market value.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

The dismal 2024 mortgage market has one very silver lining: $32 trillion in home equity. Compare that with $30 trillion in financeable equity — it dwarfs it. Compare that with $30 trillion in financeable equity — it dwarfs it. You have to think about how you monetize that equity,” Deitch said. “So,

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

Saluda Grade has already established itself as a premier destination for residential asset-based finance, and this area of the market still has tremendous potential for additional growth. Saluda Grade added two commingled funds and two separate managed accounts to its credit business last year, while also launching a third growth equity fund.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

After two years of limited demand, private equity and insurance companies are increasing their allocations to single family residential mortgages. The current stress in the CRE and C&I loan markets further highlights the advantages of residential mortgages.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Despite a drop in overall profitability in the fourth quarter of 2024, FOA, one of the nations leading reverse mortgage lenders, remains optimistic about the total addressable market for home equity-based retirement products and will continue to develop its offerings in 2025.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Keller Williams has entered into a strategic partnership with private equity firm Stone Point Capital , according to an announcement on Monday. Stone Point is no stranger to the real estate industry, as it also holds strategic investments in Lone Wolf Technologies , Homepoint , CoreLogic and Meridian.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

With Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) volume declining on an annual basis, many industry participants cited at least one key factor that couldve driven the decline, but the view was not universal. Peter Sciandra, who serves as EVP of reverse lending secondary marketing at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I think we’re going to get ourselves more to what I’ll say is the market on a normalized basis,” Newrez President Baron Silverstein told analysts in an earnings call on Tuesday. Candidly, we have to figure out a way to get our equity price to trade where it should,” Nierenberg told analysts. “So,

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

a provider of shared equity financing products, announced Thursday that it hired Paul Giangrande as a corporate executive vice president and president of its mortgage division. In his new role, Giangrande will initially work toward scaling the company’s state licensing efforts to grow future market opportunities.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

House of Representatives proposes to relieve Federal Housing Administration (FHA) borrowers of mortgage insurance premiums (MIPs) once they reach a certain level of home equity , aligning FHA policies with those of conventional loans. Mortgage insurance exists as protection from foreclosure on low equity loans. Introduced by Reps.

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