Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Federal student loan payments resuming on Oct. 1 will negatively affect consumer loan asset quality, including credit card, auto and, to a lesser extent, residential mortgages. According to the analysts, job market conditions remain the primary driver of consumer loan performance. in Q2 2023. in Q2 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

Nominations for HousingWire’s 2024 Marketing Leaders are open until April 30, 2024. If there’s one word to describe today’s successful marketers in mortgage and real estate it’s “adaptable.” HousingWire’s Marketing Leaders award recognizes the industry’s top marketers who have perfected the art of adaptability.

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In his 20 years in mortgage banking, no year has compared to 2023 in terms of difficulty, said Ben Cohen, Guaranteed Rate ’s managing director and a top-producing loan officer. It was another brutal year, pushing loan originators to work longer hours, close loans faster while diversifying their mortgage product offerings.

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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 in unpaid principal balance; pool 2 is at $342.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Das, a former CEO of Caliber Home Loans , will begin his new role on Oct. Das spent six years as CEO of Caliber Home Loans — a NewRez -owned residential mortgage lending company — until January 2022. Pagaya also offers personal loans, auto loans, credit cards and point-of-sale (POS) financing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

“ Recovery year ” was the theme heading into 2024 as mortgage professionals hoped for some reprieve in a frozen housing market characterized by high interest rates, low inventory levels and sluggish sales. said Craig Strent, former CEO of Apex Home Loans and head of the faculty of mentors at The Loan Atlas , a mortgage coaching platform. “A

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The latest baseline increase in conforming loan limits has enabled loan originator Dave Krichmar’s client to make a 5% down payment instead of 10%. The self-employed homebuyer found an $800,000 home in Texas, but with the conforming loan limit for 2023 being $726,200, the buyer needed a jumbo loan or a bank statement loan.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

Borrower demand for home loans increased across the board, despite rates being at their highest level in over a month. Plenty of buyers, but not enough homes for sale,” California-based mortgage loan officer Dan Stone, who works with hundreds of mortgage lenders, told HousingWire. retail residential mortgage applications.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2023

Mortgage rates declined last week as headlines on the bank crisis slowed, which could have spurred borrowers’ demand for home loans. retail residential mortgage applications. But the decline in demand for mortgage loans was more evident in the government market, which consists of Federal Housing Administration (FHA), U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

market for mortgages that have been dinged up by the pandemic. The bank, through its residential mortgage-backed securities conduit, Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust , has securitized some 45,000 reperforming loans valued in aggregate at $6.8 And they are truly scratch-and-dent loans. Become a member today.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

It’s counterintuitive but real: Despite surging mortgage rates , borrowers’ demand for home loans rose last week. However, a surge in demand for government loans and adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) played a role in last week’s increase. In addition, loan officers said that investors took advantage of a slower market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

FCM) reduced the company’s size through 2022 amid a tough mortgage market. retail and residential market shows how demand for home loans has quickly increased. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, rose 27.9% Surprisingly, the landscape is helping. What to expect.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2021

MAXEX , a digital exchange platform for buying and selling residential loans, announced on Wednesday the launch of two new lending programs in collaboration with JPMorgan Chase for green energy home improvements. Both programs are offered for loan values from $400,000 to $3 million. “The U.S. “The U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Mortgage lenders Doorway Home Loans and Priority Mortgage Thursday announced a merger, the latest of many such deals made during a challenging mortgage market. Both companies have more than 30 years of experience in residential direct lending, but want to expand market reach and create greater efficiency.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

The rate volatility created by fast-rising inflation, now approaching 8% annualized , and the opposing flight to quality sparked by the war in Ukraine, is complicating an already challenging execution environment in the private-label securities market. And three more hikes are planned for 2023.).

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2023

Independent mortgage banks have been coping with a still-surging wave of loan-repurchase requests from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that represents yet another threat to lenders’ already stretched balance sheets. Those loans are going to be 20 points underwater, for the 3% to 3.5%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The latest jobs cut was at Angel Oak Home Loans , which reduced its headcount by 57 employees, comprising 15% of the total, a spokesperson told HousingWire. Angel Oak Home Loans continues to serve homebuyers across the country and maintains staffing levels to meet the changing dynamics of the residential mortgage market.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

Last year might best be described as a risk-prone atmosphere for the single-family rental sector and the related fix-and-flip market. We didn’t call it a bear market, but we did call it a lack of liquidity, which I think is more accurate,” said L.D. In 2023, the landscape for home flipping across the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

Unfettered free market advocates view it as misguided. The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun the process of developing mandated disclosure regimes for funds that consider ESG factors in their marketing material. What does ESG’s growth and current ubiquity mean for residential MBS markets?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2022

Sanjiv Das, CEO of Caliber Home Loans , is stepping down as CEO of the company, less than one year after New Residential Investment Corp. In a memo sent Monday morning, Michael Nierenberg, CEO of New Residential Investment Corp., The post Caliber Home Loans CEO Sanjiv Das steps down appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

These loans, which are often used to finance environmentally-minded renovations, like the addition of solar panels, have led to financial instability for some borrowers. The proposed rule would implement a Congressional mandate establishing consumer protections for the residential PACE loans.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Angel Oak Home Loans will exit its retail distribution channel following a sale of its retail offices to an unknown lender and servicer. The firm will focus on the non-qualified residential mortgages in the wholesale and correspondent channels. Of the total volume, conventional loans accounted for 85.7% The lender originated $2.32

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Rocket Pro TPO is diversifying its product portfolio by offering home equity loans to brokers by mid-September amid increased competition in the wholesale channel. The move follows Rocket Mortgage ‘s roll out of home equity loans in August as the firm tries to capitalize on Americans’ strong home equity positions. .

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

has sponsored 18 private-label transactions so far in 2021 backed by more than 20,000 loans valued collectively at $9.9 Goldman Sachs’ string of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) offerings this year were dominated by a dozen prime jumbo-loan deals backed by loan pools valued at $7.7

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

The loan quality of mortgage pools backing private-label securitization (PLS) deals has remained solid this year through the end of June, even as deal volume slowed appreciably between the first and second quarters. . Even with big drop in rates in the first week of July — the sharpest decline since 2008 , to 5.3% billion.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Morgan Mortgage Trust , so far this year has sponsored 13 private-label securitization offerings backed by jumbo loans valued at $13.8 Morgan has been a dominant force in the jumbo-loan securitization market so far this year. The post Rising home prices are fueling the private-label market appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“Mortgage credit availability declined slightly in August, as investors reduced their offerings of ARM and non-QM loan programs,” said Joel Kan, MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting. Companies that plan to roll out HELOC products include loanDepot and New Residential Investment Corp.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2022

Angel Oak Home Loans named Steven Valladares as vice president of correspondent sales, a move that comes as the firm increasingly works to grow its correspondent channel. The correspondent business line is focused on purchasing and servicing home loans in the secondary market.

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Eye on Housing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The second quarter of 2021 marked the second consecutive quarter of loan growth for residential construction loans. These gains have lifted the year-over-year growth rate, marking an expansion of outstanding loans for home builders. during the second quarter, even as the market cooled off strong.

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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. ” However, the regulatory proposal comes amid a shrinking jumbo market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

Mortgage lender Angel Oak Home Loans has implemented SimpleNexus ‘ all-in-one mortgage app to streamline its loan origination process. With Nexus Origination, what SimpleNexus calls its flagship point of sale system, borrowers can apply for a loan, upload documents, view loan status, pay and sign disclosures on the app.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Residential due diligence is an area of the mortgage ecosystem that’s overdue for disruption, according to two industry veterans who want to offer something completely different in the due diligence space through their newly launched company, Canopy. What was done [with the loan] goes on the blockchain and it’s based on verifiable data.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

The Austin, Texas-based lender will continue offering small-balance commercial and business purpose debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) loans to its clients, CEO John Eisinger told HousingWire Monday morning. He said Stronghill is in the process of alerting clients whose loans were in the pipeline so they could transition to another lender.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

June was a rough month for jumbo-mortgage securitizations, with only two private-label offerings brought to market valued at roughly $821 million. The two jumbo-loan deals that did make it out of the gate last month were issued by Rocket Mortgage and J.P. billion — two involving high loan-to-value prime jumbo-loan pools.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2023

As the banking crisis stabilized last week, mortgage rates increased, reducing borrower demand for home loans. This was a reversal of the previous week’s trend, when homebuyers’ loan demand increased by 5.3%. retail residential mortgage applications. Overall, mortgage applications fell last week by 8.8% The U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) announced the new members of its 2021 Residential Board of Governors and the Chairs of the Residential Committee. ” RESBOG is the MBA’s main policy-setting group, focusing on issues involving the single-family residential market. and Ashley Savill of Chase. .”

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