Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF), SPS was the 20th-largest U.S. billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB). Salt Lake City-based SPS has been servicing residential mortgages since 1989 and residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) transactions since 2000, according to Fitch Ratings. In the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The notes were offered by Mello Warehouse Securitization Trust 2024-1 and secured by newly originated first-lien, fixed-rate and adjustable-rate residential mortgages. It follows other strategies to strengthen its financial position, including selling mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) and extending debt.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

The update will also now allow 203(k) consultant fees to be financed for a limited 203(k) loan, and rehabilitation periods will be extended for both limited 203(k) loans (to nine months) and for standard 203(k) loans (to 12 months). FHA has also updated its FHAC guide to provide details for these changes.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The “yes” vote also means that inherited homes not used as principal residences may be reassessed at market value when transferred. The passing of Amendment B repealed the Gallagher Amendment of 1982, which set residential and non-residential property tax assessment rates in the Colorado state constitution.

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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. million in unpaid principal balance; pool 2 is at $342.5 The FNMA 2022-RPL4 transaction involves three loan pools — with pool 1 composed of loans with about $341.6

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Annaly has $75 billion in assets invested across its agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), residential credit and MSR strategies. It has built an MSR platform with 608,000 loans, representing $192 billion in unpaid principal value (UPB) and $2.8 Inside Mortgage Finance ranked Rocket as the eighth-largest U.S. Annaly was No.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2024

Kiavi , one of the nation’s largest private lenders for residential real estate investors , closed a $300 million unrated securitization of residential transition loans (RTLs), the company announced on Friday. The loans bundled in the securitization were mostly investment property loans used for fix-and-flip transactions.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2022

billion note backed by a reference loan pool of 118,055 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $35.4 The KBRA report also mentions that the loan reference pool for the CRT offering has far more geographic diversity when compared with a typical prime-jumbo residential mortgage-backed securities offering.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

This agency’s most recent credit risk transfer (CRT) offering, STACR 2022-DNA6, involves a $1.165 billion note backed by a reference loan pool of 112,865 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $35.6 billion, according to a presale report by Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA). billion for the $12.2

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

Roughly eight months after acquiring PacWest Bancorp in a rescue deal , Banc of California is selling roughly $2 billion in business-purpose residential mortgage loans, according to Bloomberg. billion of single-family residential loans at a discount. The bank entered into an agreement to buy $1.8

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Though most commonly thought of for residential deals, real estate agents can also help people buy, sell or rent commercial properties, land and more. In the average residential transaction, commissions are usually split between the buyer’s agent and the seller’s agent, with the seller typically paying both commissions.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

The value of all residential real estate worldwide is approximately $200 trillion. The numbers are staggering so it is no surprise that residential proptech is a heady market, capturing the imagination of entrepreneurs and institutions alike. Principal among these are: Invested capital “requires” the highest return. exceeds $1.5

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The new credit risk transfer (CRT) offering, STACR 2022-DNA7, outlined in a presale report by Kroll Bond Rating Agency , involves a $616 million note offering backed by a reference loan pool of 69,144 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $19.9 The initial STARC deal of this year, STACR 2022-DNA1, was a $1.4

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and JP Morgan are also entering into a loss-share transaction on single family, residential and commercial loans it purchased from the former First Republic Bank. JPMorgan also said that the FDIC would provide it with $50 billion in financing. JPMorgan said it would repay $30 billion.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2022

a real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Mill Valley California that has residential operations focused on nonagency jumbo loans, recently reported a second-quarter 2022 net loss of $100 million, after recording a net gain of $31 million in the prior quarter. Redwood Trust Inc. , Likewise, Atlanta-based A ngel Oak Mortgage Inc. ,

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

Kiavi , formerly LendingHome , recently closed a $218 million private-label securitization of unrated short-term mortgages — described as “residential transition loans” (RTLs) by the lender, which serves the fix-and-flip market. billion in originations, up nearly 78% from 2020, according to a recent report by Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF).

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The company also increased its agents count by 4%, reaching 14,055 principal agents in Q3. That’s a 4% year-over-year increase of 511 principal agents since Q3 2022 and a 3% increase of 422 agents compared to the second quarter of 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

That compares with $101 billion in HELOC volume and $38 billion in closed-end home-equity originations over the same period this year, according to a new report by the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center. recently rebranded as Rithm Capital ). billion in 2021 to $4.6 HELOC’s were not broken out separately in that report.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

The new REMIC, Mill City Loan Holdings LLC , will serve as a mortgage conduit for funds managed by CarVal while also developing relationships with originators to acquire “residential mortgage assets across multiple strategies,” according to a CarVal statement announcing the launch of the REMIC, which will do business as Mill City Loans.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2025

Afordal solves one of the biggest pain points in residential real estate; aligning what homebuyers want with what they can afford, said Brad Springer, co-president of RatePlug. “Afordal unites home search and financing to give buyers a clear path forward, allowing professionals to engage their customers more effectively.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Marty Green, principal with mortgage law firm Polunsky Beitel Green , described increasing affordability pressures in the housing market as “throwing cold water on what was a frenzied residential real estate market.”. About 9.1% of total mortgage applications were for ARMs for the week ending Sep.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

More than just breaking records in the housing finance space, the HousingWire 2021 Women of Influence are shattering glass ceilings and leaving a legacy for years to come. Finance of America Reverse. Principal and Chair, Financial Instituions Regulatory Practice Group. Finance of America Companies. Adrienne Goolsby.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

UWM, the nation’s largest wholesale lender, sold MSR on loans with an aggregate unpaid principal balance of about $56.6 billion in the unpaid principal balance of MSRs as of March 31, 2022 compared to $221 billion exactly a year earlier. million), nonbank mortgage lender and servicer New Residential Investment Corp. ($690

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Proposal and inspiration Unlike a typical Ginnie Mae security based on pools of insured or guaranteed residential mortgage loans, the Ginnie Mae [early buyout (EBO)] security would not be based on a modified pass-through structure, the MBA said in a white paper that outlined the proposal.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

“The increased M&A activity to-date has been fueled primarily by two factors: 1) pent-up demand for retirement by aged owners who achieved lifetime net worth objectives, and 2) the current industry challenges with more storm clouds on the horizon,” David Hrobon, principal at Stratmor wrote in its October Insights Report.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

The residential real estate industry faces an interesting dynamic of rising mortgage rates while, at the same time, homeowners have record equity in their homes. In contrast, when they do a cash-out refi, they’re committed to paying the new principal and interest balance for the duration of the mortgage — likely 15 or 30 years.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

eXp delivered solid revenue in the fourth quarter, despite continued weakness in the United States residential real estate market, thanks to our global base of highly productive agents ,” Glenn Sanford, founder, chairman, and CEO of eXp World Holdings, said in a statement. In the last quarter of 2023, operating expenses rose to $1.01

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

The residential real estate industry faces an interesting dynamic of rising mortgage rates while, at the same time, homeowners have record equity in their homes. In contrast, when you do a cash-out refi, they’re committed to paying the new principal and interest balance for the duration of the mortgage — likely 15 or 30 years.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Mortgage rates are taking the Fed’s move as a clear indication that the pace of interest rate increases will be moderate, and the market is hopeful that any increases in 2023 will be in the more typical 25 basis point increments, Marty Green, principal at Polunsky Beitel Green , law firm for residential mortgage lenders, said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Investors receive principal and interest payments on the CRT notes they purchase, but if credit losses exceed a predefined threshold per the security issued, then investors are responsible for absorbing the losses exceeding that mark. RMBS at Fitch Ratings. The initial CRT deal of 2022, CAS 2022-R01 , involves a $1.5

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

Rumors this week that regulators would increase residential mortgage capital requirements for larger depositary banks, far exceeding international standards under the Basel III rules, have raised alarms for industry executives, analysts and trade groups. That’s 20 basis points higher than the international standard.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

“Rate declines will impact companies differently based on their business model,” said Craig Freel, partner and co-chief investment officer at Rice Park Capital Management , an investor in residential mortgage assets. trillion unpaid principal balance (UPB). Cooper had become the largest U.S. trillion once the Flagstar deal closes.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

The law at the center of the suit came into effect on July 1, 2023, and it “generally restricts the issuance of government contracts or economic development incentives to, or real property ownership by, foreign principals, which are certain individuals and entities associated with foreign countries of concern,” according to the Florida Senate.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

High mortgage rates have triggered a rate lock-in effect across the country – disincentivizing homeowners to move and finance their new home with higher rates. The combined impact of higher rates and higher home prices has driven the cost of financing the typical listed home up more than $250 or 12.4%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

Similarly, the Federal Housing Finance Agency ’s [FHFA’s] suspension of the cap on agency purchases of investment properties and second homes this past September has continued to create a drag on those deals flowing into the PLS market. Pelka agrees that the PLS market is under pressure. “In

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Keeping Current Matters

JANUARY 13, 2021

Yanling Mayer, Principal Economist at CoreLogic , recently revealed : “A distributional analysis of forborne loans’ payment status reveals that more than one third (39.1%) of all forborne loans are now 150+ days behind payment, while as many as 1-in-4 (25.5%) are 180+ days past due.”. Though 29.4% Bottom Line.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But we’re having a hard time reaching out to them,” he said during a panel at the annual Residential Mortgage Servicing Rights Forum held in New York City in October. Another possibility consisted of changing rates, principal balance or length of the mortgage via a loan modi? We have their email addresses. We have their phone numbers.

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