Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

When Hometap launched in 2017, the Boston-based fintech offered an unorthodox answer to this question for homeowners looking for an alternative to a loan. Affordability has always been a challenge,” said Ashkán Zandieh, managing partner and industry chair at the Center for Real Estate Technology and Innovation. “In

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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

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Dark Matter Technologies , formerly Black Knight Origination Technologies, is focused on mainly two things: the smooth transition to new owners, and lowering the cost to originate loans for lenders. Read on to learn more about Dark Matter Technologies’ plan for mortgage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Mortgage Technology reported operating income of $57 million in 2022, down from last year’s $397 million — a reflection of the headwinds the mortgage industry is facing. The mortgage technology division at ICE posted $249 million in total revenue in the fourth quarter, down 9.8%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) on Friday announced that it has published a new final rule that eliminates a current requirement for lenders to register the branch offices where they conduct FHA Title I or Title II mortgage loan originations.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

New York-based digital lender Better Home & Finance Holding Company has partnered with information technology consulting company Infosys on a mortgage-as-a-service platform. Better’s mortgage as a service currently consists roughly 20% of its revenue and the lender aims to grow this business line, Garg said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

San Francisco-based fintech Polly has hired Parvesh Sahi, a former executive from ICE Mortgage Technology , as chief revenue officer to scale the business in a highly competitive mortgage environment. Movement Mortgage , First American Financial and FinVC also joined existing investors 8VC , Khosla Ventures and Fifth Wall.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2023

Citywide Home Loans , a Utah-based mortgage lending company, agreed to settle a $1.2 While Citywide Home Loans denies liability for the incident, it is still settling the lawsuit to end the claims. Cyber security issues are among the biggest challenges for real estate and housing finance companies.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

F2 Finance wants to scoop up a share of a “fragmented” fix-and-flip market as a lack of housing inventory sharply limits transactions. There’s about 8,500 fix-and-flip mortgage lenders in the U.S. Faes & Co has also been involved with building a short-term mortgage lender in Ireland. LendInvest has more than $4.7

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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. naturally exposing her more closely to the American reverse mortgage industry. But she has a lot of family living in the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

Rocket Mortgage ’s bet on artificial intelligence (AI) has resulted in a patented platform called Rocket Logic, which can automatically process nearly 90% of data points extracted from documents in a month and reduce by 25% the number of times a professional interacts with a mortgage loan year over year, the company claims.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Having completed the $12 billion acquisition of Black Knight , Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is confident in evolving into a true life-of-loan platform: powering origination to final settlement, all in one unified digital ecosystem, executives said during its conference call with analysts. “By

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2020

End-to-end lending and services platform Finance of America Capital is the latest mortgage company to get in on the mushrooming IPO craze. Finance of America, says its collection of companies has originated over $65 billion in loans since 2017. billion in securitized mortgages as of Oct. billion valuation.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

In the midst of a higher-for-longer mortgage rate environment that is reshaping the landscape of the mortgage industry, the role of a chief marketing officer (CMO) becomes increasingly pivotal as mortgage companies navigate market fluctuations and changing consumer behaviors.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2022

California-based nonbank lender Carrington Mortgage Services has invested in boosting the growth of its wholesale channel, with the latest announcements including a new loan processing technology and plans to increase the sales team. Department of Agriculture – and non-qualified mortgages (non-QM) loans.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

California-based Pennymac Financial Services ’s broker division, Pennymac TPO , launched a home equity loan product as tappable home equity nears its 2022 peak. A home equity loan — also known as a second mortgage — enables a homeowner to borrow money by leveraging equity in a home. homeowners sit on some $16.4

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A mortgage lender isn’t the first place most people would turn to for yoga, meditation or personal wellness. The app offers users the standard fare you’d expect in a mortgage app from a major fintech lender. The app offers users the standard fare you’d expect in a mortgage app from a major fintech lender. As of Oct.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

As the housing market continues to move from last year’s refinance boom, lenders’ ability to identify customers and maintain consumer relationships has become more important than ever in not only securing loans but also ensuring they make it to close. HousingWire: What role are marketers playing in this current?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Banks reported having tightened lending standards across almost all categories of residential real estate loans over the fourth quarter of 2023 amid an elevated interest rate environment. banks said they saw weaker demand for all types of residential real estate loans except for government (46.2%) and subprime mortgage loans (41.6%).

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

The dismal 2024 mortgage market has one very silver lining: $32 trillion in home equity. The biggest year of mortgage production , from 2021-2022, generated $4.5 Compare that with $30 trillion in financeable equity — it dwarfs it. Compare that with $30 trillion in financeable equity — it dwarfs it.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

Mortgage brokers ’ compensation is in the spotlight after a recent Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) test concluded that some financial institutions failed to prove that payments were “reasonably related” to the value of services provided. Violations identified vary across different stages of the loan process.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Texas-based lender Thrive Mortgage plans to merge with digital multichannel rival Lower , which will create a unified lender with more than 650 loan officers and 120 active branches across the country. billion during the same time period, according to mortgage recruiting platform Modex.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

While the total number of reverse mortgage industry professionals present at HW Annual in Frisco, Tex. Kathryn Amor, chief product officer at Finance of America Companies, spoke during the event’s mortgage purchase market panel about what Finance of America Reverse (FAR) beings to the table for the larger parent company.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Guild Mortgage ’s acquisition of Academy Mortgage Corp. With the acquisition of Academy, Guild will be onboarding nearly 200 branches and 1,000 new employees, about 600 of which are loan officers. But she said there was no “serious talk” about an M&A deal until the end of 2023 amid a depressed mortgage market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

We’ve asked Phillip McCall, president and chief operating officer at ACES Quality Management , how lenders can keep up with new and upcoming regulations to maintain loan quality in this very competitive environment. Our team has literally gone through the alphabet soup of lending regulations to fully apply them within our technology.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Mortgage holders withdrew a mere 0.41% of tappable equity in Q3, about 55% below the average withdrawal rate seen in the 12 years leading up to the Federal Reserve ’s most recent tightening cycle, according to the latest ICE Mortgage Technology ‘s mortgage monitor report. for FHA loans and 44.5% for VA loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

When will the mortgage industry know it has reached the tipping point where innovation is no longer a competitive advantage but an existential need? Any one of these indicators points to a housing finance industry ripe for innovation. housing and economic policy in ways that aren’t always beneficial.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Dark Matter Technologies , formerly Black Knight Origination Technologies, is gearing up to bring more lenders on to use its Empower loan origination system in 2024. Read on to learn more about how Dark Matter Technologies’ plans increase market share and utilize AI in its LOS.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Movement Mortgage on Friday announced the appointment of Lyra Waggoner as its chief information officer. Her role will focus on technology to drive the company’s growth. Waggoner’s professional career spans 18 years in the mortgage industry. The key to growing in a challenging mortgage market. Presented by: Polly.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

Digital closing provider Snapdocs is partnering with real estate technology provider SitusAMC to integrate the Snapdocs eVault to SitusAMC’s ProMerit platform, a warehouse lending technology tool, the companies announced on Thursday. market share, according to estimates from Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF).

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Black Knight has decided to sell its loan origination software business Empower in a bid to save the $13 billion deal with Intercontinental Exchange Inc (ICE), Reuters reported , citing sources familiar with the matter. If the deal goes through, it would make ICE the most dominant mortgage services company in America.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Acquisitive lender Guild Mortgage on Tuesday announced the acquisition of Legacy Mortgage , increasing its footprint in the Southwest. The lender originated approximately $309 million in mortgages in 2022, according to data from mortgage technology platform Modex. Rithm Capital , Rocket Mortgage and Mr. Cooper.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

Recent data from Inside Mortgage Finance shows a significant leap in broker market share, jumping to 24.3% The significant cost savings of working with an independent mortgage broker has also become more widely known. Government data from HMDA shows borrowers are saving, on average, over $9,400 over the life of a loan.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2023

mortgage lender, acquired Sirva’s shares at Premia Relocation Mortgage and now has full ownership of the business, the companies announced on Friday. Premia, which provides a relocation mortgage service for employees moving across the country or to other countries, has a digital platform called DigitalMove. It fell 58.8%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2022

Fannie Mae has launched its fourth reperforming-loan sale of the year — an offering of 6,130 loans with an unpaid principal balance of $997 million. A reperforming loan is a mortgage that has been or is currently delinquent but has been reperforming for a period of time. million; and pool 3, $312.9

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Better Home & Finance Holding Co. , The digital lender made changes in its commercial operating model to achieve this goal and will continue to invest in Tinman, its proprietary technology platform. The operating model change involved Better pivoting to hiring experienced loan officers on commission-based compensation plans.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

Connecticut-based lender and servicer Planet Home Lending has acquired the assets of Illinois-based retail lender Platinum Home Mortgage Corporation. Founded in 1993 by Bill and Michael Giambrone, Platinum has 22 branches and 79 active loan officers, according to the mortgage tech platform Modex. million in cash.

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