Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

San Francisco -based private lender Kiavi announced Monday that it has closed another multimillion-dollar securitization of residential transition loans (RTLs), bringing its six-month volume of issuances to nearly $1 billion. million in short-term RTLs (aka fix-and-flip loans or bridge loans) across 18 transactions since 2019.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

Swiss bank UBS Group AG has decided to sell Credit Suisse ’s mortgage servicing company, Select Portfolio Servicing (SPS), to a group of investors led by Sixth Street , HousingWire has learned. Investment firm Davidson Kempner Capital Management is a co-investor. billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB). 36 in the IMF ranking.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that the company misled investors about the delinquency rates in a 2018 private-label securitization involving fix-and-flip loans. Shortly after the [securitization] deal closed, loan delinquency rates increased unexpectedly,” the SEC alleges. has agreed to pay $1.75

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It has an emphasis on first-time homebuyers ; purchase loans through an expanded geographic footprint and partnerships; servicing portfolio scale and retention; operating leverage quality to drive down turn times; and recruiting, developing and retaining the best talent available. Meanwhile, the company’s total revenues reached $314.6

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Two days later, Onity announced final details of the transaction that included a price revision to $500 million and an aggregate principal amount of senior notes at 9.875% due in 2029. The price to investors will be 99.556% of the principal amount of the notes.

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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

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 28, 2022

Fannie Mae has announced the winning bidder for the final mortgage pool that was part of its inaugural nonperforming loan sale of 2022 — and it’s nineteenth sale since the i na ugural offering in 2015. The loan pool, dubbed the Community Impact Pool (CIP), includes 120 loans with an unpaid principal balance of $36.3

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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

JUNE 14, 2022

Fannie Mae has chosen the winning bidder for its inaugural nonperforming loan sale of 2022, a deal involving 3,223 loans with an unpaid principal balance of $477.2 The nonperforming loans involved in the deal, dubbed FNMA 2022-NPL1 , were divided into two pools, with MCLP the winning bidder for both pools.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2022

In an additional note of caution looking forward, the lender’s SEC filing indicates that it cannot guarantee requests for future loan-covenant amendments or waivers will be agreed to by its lenders, “in which case we would be in default under these agreements.”. ” The lender wrote in its SEC filing that as of June 30, it had $90.8

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Philadelphia-based private equity firm LLR Partners announced Tuesday its investment in Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach , two fintechs focused on attracting and retaining mortgage borrowers and making loan originators more efficient. The post Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang snag new investor appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2025

In real terms, the crux of the problem isnt so much inefficiencies as it is transparency into the extent of the problem in investor accounting, what you dont know can hurt you. For instance, investor accounting represents about 40% of GSE scorecard metrics but only about 2% of a servicers cost structure. And were not even done.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

And so [investors] can start having greater conviction in the future path of interest rates and in the health of the mortgage market.” Non-QM mortgages include loans that cannot command a government, or “agency,” stamp through Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. And future rate cuts mean less return [for investors].

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A shift in Rocket Mortgage’s MSR strategy Through the third quarter, Rocket has already acquired or committed to over $70 billion in unpaid principal balance for its servicing portfolio —a 15% increase over year-end 2023. All the while, companies like Mr. Cooper and Lakeview Loan Servicing have expanded their portfolios.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

San Francisco-based private lender Kiavi announced on Thursday that it has secured $300 million in capital after another securitization of its residential transition loans (RTLs). Kiavi reported that the offered notes were “oversubscribed by five times its capacity” as institutional investors showed interest.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

Rocktop — a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that works to improve yields for institutional investors , asset managers and other participants in the fixed-income and mortgage markets — has now placed more than $60 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) on its data management platform. billion in UPB. “The

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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 The average loan balance in the reference pool is $315,272, with the maximum balance at $1.56

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

Kiavi , one of the nation’s largest private lenders for residential real estate investors , closed a $350 million unrated securitization of residential transition loans (RTLs), the company announced on Monday. The loans bundled in the securitization were mostly investment property loans used for fix-and-flip transactions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

These multiple market pressures have fueled rate volatility and accompanying pricing-execution pressures that have led to a difficult beginning of the year for the private-label securities (PLS) market, according to market experts, and, as a side effect, sparked a more robust market for whole-loan sales — with loans often being sold at a discount.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

New legislation would extend a benefit similar to Veterans Affairs loans to first responders and teachers who buy homes. Mortgages would be subject to FHA loan limits. percent of the principal, which could be financed, and would not pay a monthly insurance premium. Representatives John Rutherford (R-Fla.), Al Lawson (D-Fla.),

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

allows the company to improve its fee-based income as the deal includes the purchase of Specialized Loan Servicing LLC (SLS). “The The deal will add a mortgage servicing rights (MSR) portfolio of about $136 billion in unpaid principal balance to Rithm. CEDAR CREEK, Texas — Real estate investment trust Rithm Capital Corp.’s

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The transaction, CAS 2022-RO9, involves a reference pool of 96,000 single-family mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $29.3 The loans in the reference pool have loan-to-value ratios ranging from 80.01 trillion in single-family mortgage loans. percent to 97.00

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Rocket aims to double its current market share in purchase mortgages from 4% to 8% and expand its refinance share from 12% to 20%, executives said during the company’s first Investor Day event on Tuesday. billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) at the end of the second quarter. Rocket originated $42.3 billion). “The

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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 billion secured by single-family mortgage reference loan pools valued in total at $156.9 billion secured by single-family mortgage reference loan pools valued in total at $156.9 a week earlier.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2025

Meanwhile, Two Harbors Investment acquired RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing and Rithm Capital closed a deal for Computershare Mortgage Services, bringing in Specialized Loan Servicing. Meanwhile, UBS sold Select Portfolio Servicing (SPS), to a group of investors led by Sixth Street. billion in unpaid principal balance as of March 31.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

billion secured by single-family mortgage reference loan pools valued in total at $121.5 billion note backed by a reference loan pool of 140,950 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $42.9 As a result, KBRA applied a broad valuation haircut to such loans.”. of the loan pool.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

They include ACIS 2022-COR1, which was the first offering comprised solely of cash-out refinance loans as collateral; and ACIS 2022-AFH1, which reduces the agency’s credit risk by providing insurance protection for loans as they are purchased. per thousand dollars of outstanding principal amount, depending on the series vintage.

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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

JULY 30, 2024

On Monday, the mortgage lender and servicer said that its debt offering to qualified investors through subsidiary Nationstar Mortgage Holdings will bear an annual interest rate of 6.5% The senior notes, also issued to qualified investors, mature in 2032 and bear interest at 7.125% per year, paid semiannually.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

billion so far this year that are secured by reference loan pools valued at $78.6 billion note issued against a reference loan pool of 190,774 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $33.6 of the loan pool. STACR 2022-DNA1 involves a $1.4 Morgan Chase , 5.9%; and “other,” 67.2%.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This team during my tenure has done the yeoman’s work of really amplifying, collecting and gathering all the loan-level data that is in our securities to be able to disclose that data to investors, so they really understand what’s in the pools that they’re buying and what they’re investing in.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

Most mortgage professionals have either started to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) or are at least aware of how it can be adopted to make the loan origination process more efficient. “Once data is identified, the system can then run a series of automated comparison checks or rules,” Jennifer Fortier , principal at Stratmor, said.

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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 of the loans; Rocket Mortgage , 8.1%; Wells Fargo , 6.6%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The alarming data underscores why housing professionals need to understand the financial impact of climate change on the real estate industry, George Gallagher, senior leader and principal of ESG, climate risk, natural hazard and spatial solutions at CoreLogic told attendees during a session at HousingWire Annual on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

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