Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Last year was a challenging one for reverse mortgage business activity, and it likely hit no one harder than the industry’s front-line loan originators. This is according to a series of RMD interviews with six reverse mortgage originators from across the U.S., As far as the interest in reverse mortgages, it has been steady,” he said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

While reverse mortgage volume in 2024 got off to a rocky start, new data that breaks out retail Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements versus wholesale production showed that it was the former that took the bigger hit in the first month of the year, based on new data compiled by Reverse Market Insight (RMI).

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

I don’t expect we’ll see much of a market reaction to the Fed meeting this week because the Fed is waiting for the incoming data, just like the rest of us,” said Danielle Hale, chief economist at Realtor.com. It seems to me they didn’t want to make that same mistake today.” “I

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In September 2022, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 6.1%, according to Freddie Mac data. But compare mortgage delinquencies over the same period: 2.8% CoreLogic principal economist Molly Boesel attributes much of the stability in the low delinquency rate to low unemployment over the period. in September 2022, 2.8%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

The mortgage-servicing rights (MSR) market remains robust as we turn the corner into 2024, and though it is expected to slightly underperform 2023, the market is still projected to notch healthy trading volumes in 2024 — hovering near the $1 trillion mark for the fourth year in a row, market observers forecast.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Recent cyberattacks at mortgage companies have put the industry in alert mode, executives at top lenders, servicers, tech vendors and investors told HousingWire. But they acknowledge that they keep a vast amount of customer data and some players may be vulnerable amid a shrinking market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Loan officers saw an increase in mortgage demand during the first week of 2023 as mortgage rates ticked down. ” Gano’s experiences reflect what happened in the market overall. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), mortgage applications rose 1.2%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In some markets, more than 50% of active listings have experienced a price cut, according to Altos Research. And because mortgage rates have been above 7% for about two months consecutively, the cost of financing is extreme. According to the brokerage, 6.5% the month prior. The median U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Prices in nearly half of the nation’s 50 largest markets climbed by 0.75% or more. Even on a non-adjusted basis, August’s gain of 0.24% was more than 60% larger than the 25-year average for the month, according to a mortgage monitor report from Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In the face of spiking interest rates and historically high home prices , $3,000 monthly mortgage payments are common in today’s housing market. Between 2010 and 2021, mortgage holders withdrew an average 0.92% of available tappable equity each quarter. That share fell to just 0.4%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

When assessing December’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) volume data for December 2023, Reverse Market Insight (RMI) used a choice word as the title for its commentary : “thud.” One of the top 10 lenders that posted gains, however, was Open Mortgage. This is a different situation.” This represents $15.6

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The year ahead promises to offer the housing industry some relief, compared with a grueling 2023, but it is likely to be only a small bounce forward toward a healthier market. John Toohig, head of whole-loan trading on the Raymond James whole-loan desk and president of Raymond James Mortgage Co.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. The first half of the year, with mortgage rates in the 3s and 4s, was like “Fast and Furious.” But the housing market in the second half of 2022? “The By September, a full-fledged housing market recession had set in.

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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. In those offering, 100% of the FHA loans involved are delinquent — with about a quarter of the mortgages in each deal in active foreclosure. in active foreclosure.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Month-over-month, home prices increased in more than 60% of markets, with notable exceptions in Austin and San Antonio, where prices declined month to month in June on a seasonally adjusted basis. The average mortgage holder now has $199,000 in equity, up from $185,000 in the first quarter, but down from $207,000 at the same time last year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

The lack of housing inventory – a major pain point for real estate agents and loan officers – is an issue that Mark Cohen, principal owner of Cohen Financial Group , also sees in the upper end of the Southern California market. It’s a two-story housing market in Southern California,” Cohen said. Cohen funded $751.4

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Opportunity in the current mortgage market may be challenging to find — and that could arguably be truer for those who offer reverse mortgage products for clients. Still, reverse mortgage professionals are always keeping their eyes peeled, and a group of them shared what they’re looking out for in 2024 for their businesses.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Two years after acquiring RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing , Freedom Mortgage Corp. has inked a deal to sell the nonbank mortgage servicer to Matrix Financial Services Corp. another leading mortgage servicer and a wholly owned subsidiary of real estate investment trust Two Harbors Investment Corp. market share and a $380.2

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In essence, the residential real estate market was frozen in November, resembling the sales activity seen during the COVID-19 economic lockdowns in 2020,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. However, in recent weeks, mortgage rates have declined and currently hover around 6.3%. million homes, which represents 3.3

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

California-based wholesale/correspondent lender New Wave Lending Group filed a lawsuit against Sprout Mortgage , accusing the company of defaulting on a pool of $32 million in loans it agreed to purchase. 15, 2022, for the purchase of 51 loans, with a total principal value of $32,864,270. New Wave filed the lawsuit Monday in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2020

mortgage rate for a 30-year fixed loan fell to 2.8% The average fixed rate for a 15-year mortgage was 2.33%, falling from last week’s 2.35%. After this week’s dip, there have now been 13 consecutive weeks when average mortgage rates have been below 3%, and rates have broken records 11 times this year. The average U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

California-based wholesale/correspondent lender New Wave Lending Group filed a lawsuit against Sprout Mortgage , accusing the company of defaulting on a pool of $32 million in loans it agreed to purchase. 15, 2022, for the purchase of 51 loans, with a total principal value of $32,864,270. New Wave filed the lawsuit Monday in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

Mortgage fintechs Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach have merged, roughly six months after a Philadelphia-based private equity firm bought a controlling stake in each company. A unified name has not yet been determined and Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach will continue to operate as distinct brands, for now, the companies said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

Home prices fell in January, pulling back by 0.24% from December to mark the smallest monthly decline in seven months, according to Black Knight ‘s mortgage monitor report. of the median household income to make the monthly principal and interest payments on the average home purchase. Months of supply stagnated at about 3.1

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates, now around 6.5%, are cooling down the housing market and triggering mass layoffs in the mortgage and real estate industries. Mortgage rates have nearly doubled to around 6.5% Will Savage, an LO at PMC Mortgage. Before the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by 0.75

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

parent company of PHH Mortgage Corp. and its subsidiary Liberty Reverse Mortgage , posted a $64 million loss in 2023 but sees a generally positive trajectory for its reverse mortgage origination and servicing businesses. Ocwen Financial Corp.,

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The latest weekly survey data from Freddie Mac shows the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage jumped 40 basis points to an average of 6.70% this week, the highest level since 2007. The uncertainty and volatility in financial markets is heavily impacting mortgage rates,” said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. Pressure on demand.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Roughly a year after Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang were acquired by a private equity firm, they’ve merged their services onto one platform and rebranded to “TrustEngine.” The company says more than 200 independent mortgage companies, credit unions, banks and brokers currently use TrustEngine’s solutions.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Rocket Mortgage and its wholesale arm Rocket Pro TPO will reduce homebuyers’ monthly mortgage payments by one full percentage point for the first year of their loan. Rocket Mortgage will be covering the difference in mortgage payments in the first 12 months through a special escrow account.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

Mortgage rates, which climbed upward one day and went down the next in the wake of the recent wave of bank failures, will continue to be volatile before it stabilizes, industry watchers said. “The As that uncertainty drains away, mortgage rates will have smaller day-to-day swings.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

California-based Carrington Mortgage Services (CMS) sees a window of opportunity in the mortgage market. The Federal Reserve (Fed) actions that resulted in millions of borrowers receiving mortgage rates below 4% gave way to Fed actions that… triggered mortgage rates to rise above 7% in the fall of 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Wednesday released a special edition of its Supervisory Highlights report that profiles “unlawful junk fees uncovered in deposit accounts and in multiple loan servicing markets,” including among mortgage servicers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2021

Mortgage executives have a hard time forgetting 2018. The market was coming off a refi boom, competition was fierce, and the profit margins were slim (if there were any at all). In a bid to gain market share, some of the biggest mortgage originators priced loans aggressively to keep production up and attract loan originators.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2022

So is the 24-month refinance market, the biggest of its kind in all of mortgage banking history. And this time, the most wonderful time of the year gives way to what, in the mortgage industry, could be the most awfullest time of the year. Think technology and service providers, too — a smaller mortgage market affects everyone.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

On the heels of the central bank’s announcement to raise the federal funds rate by 50 basis points to 4.25%-4.50% on Wednesday, most economists and industry experts were on the same page about the housing outlook and which direction mortgage rates would be headed. . is headed for a recession next year.

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