Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on Friday that it has lowered the interest rates for its single-family housing (SFH) direct home loan programs as of March 1, according to an email update sent out earlier this week. The USDA’s SFH non-program interest rate is being lowered from 5.125% in February.

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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). The deal leaves room for reinvestment via a two-year window, allowing investors to reuse principal payoffs to purchase newlyoriginated loans.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2024

Its subsidiaries include Main Street Home Loans , BluPrint Home Loans , Elevate Home Loans and Element Home Loans. According to Modex, the Maryland-headquartered independent mortgage bank has originated about $5 billion over the last 12 months. NFM is licensed in 49 states and Washington, D.C. billion.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2022

Still, the company asserted the loans are not a risk but a “positive outcome that positions us well for the coming year.”. The post Offerpad lands $600M more in credit to power iBuying appeared first on HousingWire. million loss. The company plans to expand into additional markets in 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The best hard money loans for real estate depend on your investment strategy, whether youre financing a short-term flip, a rental property or a large-scale development. Youll also learn how hard money loans work, what it takes to get approved and key factors to consider before applying.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-guaranteed loan eligibility for the descendants of certain veterans; the creation of incentives for local governments to “eliminate unnecessary land use restrictions;” and limits to the role of private equity in the housing space.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Fiercer competition in the wholesale channel spurred United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) to increase the ceiling on conforming loans on Wednesday, ahead of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) decision in November. Last year , lenders didn’t raise conventional loan limits until Sept.

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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. Manufactured homes are built at indoor homebuilding facilities and then delivered to the land chosen by the owner.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2025

An analysis released Thursday by MortgageResearch.com suggests that the average new college graduate likely wont be able to afford a home until April 2034 nearly 10 years after graduation due to a triple burden of surging home prices, student loan debt and modest entry-level salaries. and conforming loans were up 0.2%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

on Wednesday announced that it has released an Attorney Opinion Letter (AOL) product for VA direct and VA-backed home loans as a compliant alternative to title insurance. Voxtur previously announced this year that it had produced an AOL for Fannie Mae loans. Real estate tech firm Voxtur Analytics Corp.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Rocket Pro TPO , the wholesale arm of Rocket Mortgage , on Monday raised agency conforming loan limits to $750,000, ahead of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) decision expected in November. Companies are pressured to launch new initiatives to attract brokers and land more purchase businesses due to high mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2022

It’s a tough time to be a loan officer. Amid all the chaos, loan officers may be pressed to get creative when it comes to generating new business. Amid all the chaos, loan officers may be pressed to get creative when it comes to generating new business. The best loan officers are those who aren’t loan officers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

In total, the GSE purchased 45 loans with AOLs out of a grand total of 1.151 million loans purchased throughout the year. Since Fannie Mae’s announcement last April, the American Land Title Association has been an outspoken critic of AOLs. “We

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2023

Indian Land, South Carolina-based lender Movement Mortgage has agreed to pay $23.75 According to the company’s statement, “The relevant loans, some dating back 15 years, make up less than a half percent of our total federal loans originated during this time frame. Attorney’s Office said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

Scott Miller, a former mortgage loan originator at Sprout Mortgage , knew the clock was ticking when the non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lender abruptly closed doors in July 2022. In turn, thousands of loan originators could soon be looking for a new lender to hang their license. They weren’t so small that they couldn’t handle us.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2025

Global investment bank Cambridge Wilkinson today announced the closing of a forward flow agreement up to $100 million for a private real estate lending platform specializing in short-term bridge , fix-and-flip, construction and land development loans.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

The complaint filed by a couple alleges that the company and a mortgage banker denied a mortgage loan application based on race for a single-family home located within the boundaries of the Flathead Indian Reservation in Saint Ignatius, Montana. The effective date for the new rule is June 18.

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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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The Close

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Buying vacant land can be a wise investment with great returns if you plan carefully and understand what’s involved. While land can be a relatively cheap and low-effort investment compared to a house, making money from it might be trickier. Check access: Make sure you have legal access to the land. It helps to be in the know.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The increased fees that military veterans and active duty personnel pay for Veterans Administration (VA) mortgage loans should be allowed to expire on schedule, and congressional leaders should avoid any policies that would extend these fees, according the Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA).

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2025

What does get noticed is the number of loans we do the size of the industry. And instead of holding onto our little plot of land, we need to be spreading the word, bringing more people in and teaching them to do it the right way. When we look at what NRMLA does, its excellent work, he said. But a lot of it goes unnoticed.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

When property owners agree to allow a carrier such as Verizon or AT&T to install a tower on their land or small cell on their building, the carrier and property owner enter into a long-term ground lease agreement. Generally, the carrier agrees to pay the property owner or landlord monthly rent for use of land or space upon a building.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In two minutes, I can generate a flyer that has the landing page and everything on it, and I never have to update it again. Our Recapture product monitors loans, does a deep analysis and then sends a presentation to the customer about options to save them money. I literally want to push a button. SW: How are you guys leveraging AI ?

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2025

Bidding wars for producing mortgage loan officers are back with a vengeance and it’s largely in the hopes of capitalizing on an upcoming refinance wave, recruiters and executives tell HousingWire. His reasoning is simple: When a refinance opportunity arises, it will find the loan officerregardless of which company they work for.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

In these contracts – also known as “land contracts” or “bond for deed” –the seller retains the legal title to a home until the borrower completes all the payments, leading to some “traps,” according to the CFPB. Home prices are usually inflated, inspections are not made, and loans have high interest rates and balloon payments.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

In a refinancing, homeowners obtain a new loan and lenders require a new title search and a title insurance policy on that loan to protect their investment. Discounts also may be available if using the same lender that issued the original loan. Mary O’Donnell is CEO of Westcor Land Title Insurance Co.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

MORE’s model offers a short-term bridge loan typically around three years in length that’s designed to give buyers time to refinance or secure permanent financing. Seller financing spans residential, commercial and land transactions, with residential making up 63% of all deals over the past three years, Note Investor reported.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

Actual” real estate is defined as property consisting of land or buildings, and everything that is permanently attached to the land. Its boundaries can be shown on a land survey and ownership is vetted through a physical deed in the jurisdiction, where the physical real estate is located. Defining virtual real estate.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lack of inventory is an issue builders and mortgage loan originators alike are dealing with across the nation. Read on for more about Marquis’s perspective on the housing market, business strategies for 2023, and his take on the loan level pricing adjustment (LLPA) fees. It’s a hard challenge because we don’t have a lot of land here.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2025

Better.com today announced a new partnership with Biz2Credit , which will provide Biz2Credits customers the option to receive $50,000 to $500,000 in additional financing options through Better.com s Home Equity Line of Credit ( HELOC ) and Home Equity Loan (HELOAN) products.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Under the new selling guidelines, Fannie Mae said it would allow AOLs to be used on “loans secured by a unit in a condo project” and “loans secured by a property subject to restrictive agreements or restrictive covenants.” The initial version of the GSE’s Equitable Housing Finance Plans were approved in the summer of 2022 by the FHFA.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The Underserved Mortgage Markets Coalition (UMMC), a coalition of 32 housing groups initially convened by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy , published a report on Wednesday that recommended actions for the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. mortgage finance system. mortgage finance system.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Ruimy: I would say some large investors that would do $100 million to $300 million a year of loan origination are now clients of those BPL lenders. What we created here is a tech-enabled platform that can land in every state in the U.S., Would you say that the majority of these are smaller investors?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced on Wednesday that it will lower the VA Native American Direct Loan (NADL) program interest rate from 6% to 2.5% in an effort to make housing loans more affordable for Native American military veterans. interest rate for the life of the loan. from 2012 to 2021.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2022

One stakeholder is affordable housing advocates, and in October twenty such groups — including the National Housing Conference , the National Community Stabilization Trust and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy — implored FHFA to hit pause on the proposed plans.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

Strong consumption data combined with slowing inflation points to a “soft landing” for the economy, Fannie Mae ‘s Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group said Thursday. In fact, somewhat softer housing construction and sales may be needed to make a soft landing possible,” according to the ESR group. trillion.

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