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. “Our

Due diligence 410

Due diligence Mortgages Investor Technology 410

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Nations Direct Mortgage, a residential lender in both the retail and wholesale channels, on Wednesday announced appointing Jack O’Brien as its senior vice president and national sales director. Aimee Quinn, president of Nations Direct Mortgage, said his experience will be put toward expansion across the U.S. .

Sales 428

Sales Mortgages Principal Equity 428

Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

In February 2024, the national delinquency rate for residential mortgages stood at 2.8%, marking an 0.2 The data provider examined all stages of delinquencies to gain a complete view of the mortgage market and loan performance health. Early-stage delinquencies (mortgages 30 to 59 days past due), accounted for 1.5%

Mortgages 484

Mortgages Staging Principal Loans 484

Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2022

were “combination modifications,” where interest rate reductions and term extensions are applied to a loan to help bring down a borrowers mortgage payment. of the loans modified included a principal deferral, the OCC said. million first-lien residential mortgages with $2.6 Of the modifications completed, the OCC said 97.4%

Banks 384

Banks Mortgages Principal Renovation 384

Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

In March 2024, the national delinquency rate for residential mortgages stood at 2.8% The data provider examined all stages of delinquencies to gain a complete view of the mortgage market and loan performance health. Early-stage delinquencies (mortgages 30 to 59 days past due) accounted for 1.5% in March 2023.

Mortgages 449

Mortgages Staging Principal Loans 449

Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

Lewisville, Texas-based property services company MCS announced last week that it acquired Five Brothers Asset Management Solutions , a deal which brings MCS into the reverse mortgage industry for the first time, according to an announcement by the company. Five Brothers, headquartered in Warren, Mich.,

Mortgages 420

Mortgages Principal Commercial Real-estate owned 420

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Newrez has launched a new joint venture mortgage company, Carnegie Mortgage Partners , in collaboration with a top Keller Williams franchise network in Bergen County, New Jersey, the lender announced on Monday. The joint venture mortgage company is led by Margaret Bernabei, a former branch manager at a CrossCountry Mortgage outpost.

Mortgages 410

Mortgages Principal Brokerage Lending 410

Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Office of Policy Development and Research is seeking public comment related to application and origination documents for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program, according to a notice published this week in the Federal Register.

Mortgages 419

Mortgages VA loan Principal Loans 419

Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Fitch Ratings reported this week that recent natural disasters that have damaged thousands of homes and businesses including the Southern California wildfires and hurricanes Milton and Helene in the Southeast are not expected to heavily impact paid claims experience or credit ratings for mortgage insurers.

Mortgages 368

Mortgages Principal Loans Equity 368

Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

JPMorgan Chase will buy nearly $2 billion worth of mortgages to grease Banc of California ‘s purchase of PacWest Bancorp , Bloomberg reported. billion of single-family residential loans at a discount, according to the outlet. The bank entered into an agreement to buy $1.8 Banc of California and JPMorgan declined to comment.

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Purchase and sale agreement Mortgages Banks Principal 370

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

Mortgages 421

Mortgages Loan Officer Pre-approval Fixed-rate mortgage 421

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

Loans 408

Loans Principal Banks Residential 408

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%.

Sales 384

Sales Mortgages Principal Days on market 384

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

After hitting a 23-year high of 8% in October, mortgage rates have cooled down to the lowest levels since July. The mortgage rate dip is welcome news for the housing market, but loan originators and industry executives emphasized that rates need to decline further and remain stable to reinvigorate buyers’ demand.

Mortgages 458

Mortgages Fixed-rate mortgage Equity Loans 458

Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Department of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s private equity firm, Liberty Strategic Capital , will inject $1 billion in equity investment in struggling New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), one of the nation’s largest residential mortgage servicers. billion, according to the KBW analysts.

Equity 403

Equity Mortgages Banks Commercial 403

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. Likewise, Atlanta-based A ngel Oak Mortgage Inc. , The Angel Oak Cos.

Mortgages 384

Mortgages Residential Loans Lending 384

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 million single-family mortgages. billion for the $12.2

Principal 421

Principal Loans Investor Residential 421

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

Loans 384

Loans Purchase and sale agreement Principal Due diligence 384

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

After nearly two years of trudging through a frozen housing market , the consensus among mortgage professionals is that the worst of it is over. The spread between the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage and the 10-year Treasury yield has narrowed after sitting at over 300 basis points, compared to the historic norm of 150 bps.

Mortgages 450

Mortgages Loan Officer Loans Equity 450

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. . Realtor.com expects mortgage rates to reach 7.1% by the year-end.

Mortgages 421

Mortgages Residential Principal Lending 421

Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

Mortgage rates declined again this week following the Federal Reserve ‘s recent pause on monetary tightening. The Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, which focuses on conventional and conforming loans with a 20% down payment, shows the 30-year fixed rate averaged 6.67% as of June 22, down from last week’s 6.69%.

Mortgages 397

Mortgages Principal Loans Residential 397

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 note against a reference pool of 143,889 single-family mortgages valued at about $45 billion.

Principal 370

Principal Fixed-rate mortgage Residential Loans 370

Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF), SPS was the 20th-largest U.S. primary mortgage servicer at the end of June, handling $166.7 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB). mortgage unit that focused on “to-be-announced” (TBA) trading. In the U.S., Credit Suisse owns Select Portfolio Servicing (SPS).

Banks 410

Banks Closing Principal Residential 410

Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

When interest rates began skyrocketing more than two years ago, mortgage companies faced a pivotal decision regarding a crucial part of their business: the servicing portfolio. trillion unpaid principal balance (UPB). Mr. Cooper estimates it will hold about $132 billion in mortgages at 6% or higher once the acquisition is finalized.

Mortgages 428

Mortgages Banks Debt-to-income ratio Loans 428

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is projected to be a record year for consolidation among mortgage lenders, largely due to the dramatic shift from a refinance boom to a purchase mortgage market and the total origination volume, which has shrunk to about half the size from 2021. Most recently, Guild Mortgage expressed interest in acquisitions.

Industrial 383

Industrial Mortgages Loans Principal 383

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In its annual Mortgage Fraud Report, CoreLogic found that the risk of mortgage fraud for the 12 months ending June 2020 decreased 26.3% Investment loan applications are showing a higher risk because real estate investors have a profit motivation for their activity,” said Bridget Berg, Principal, Fraud Solutions at CoreLogic.

Mortgages 421

Mortgages VA loan Loans Lending 421

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 billion note against a reference pool of 143,889 single-family mortgages valued at about $45 billion. .

Principal 384

Principal Loans Residential Investor 384

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.” What does it mean for buyers, sellers?

Industrial 397

Industrial Mortgages Purchase and sale agreement Banks 397

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

California-based loanDepot on Monday announced it has closed a $300 million offering of notes backed by a revolving warehouse line of credit and secured by mortgages. It follows other strategies to strengthen its financial position, including selling mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) and extending debt.

Closing 408

Closing Principal Residential Finance 408

Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

million in aggregate principal amount available for 30 days to cover over-allotments. The company said the proceeds of the debt offering are expected to fund, among other things, the firm’s residential lending business, the acquisition of mortgage-backed securities (MBS), and strategic acquisitions and investments.

Closing 410

Closing Principal Lending Equity 410

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.

Mortgages 370

Mortgages Banks Marketing Residential 370

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). As the 21st transaction made under the company’s LHOME Mortgage Trust, Kiavi’s total volume of notes offered sits at $5.8 billion since 2019.

Land 213

Land Investor Principal New Construction 213

Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

MBA and NRMLA each state that they are generally supportive of the proposed changes, which include wholesale revisions to the lender table for the best estimate of the total cost of a refinancing to the borrower, as well as increases to the borrower’s principal limit.

VA loan 421

VA loan Principal Residential New Construction 421

Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2024

The government mortgage bond guarantor incorporated expanded its payment default status (PDS) reporting, including loan default information, any mitigation actions taken and the timing of these actions. Additionally, subservicers that collaborate with Ginnie Mae issuers will be subject to this mandate, according to National Mortgage News.

Principal 416

Principal Loans Residential Mortgages 416

Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2023

Historic housing shortage The unprecedented rate hikes over the past 12 months have exacerbated a historic housing shortage while destabilizing the residential mortgage market. In 2021, mortgage originations hit a record high of $4.4 Today, three of four mortgage loans are issued by independent mortgage companies.

Banks 397

Banks Mortgages Fixed-rate mortgage Loans 397

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Rocket Mortgage has struck a deal to handle the servicing and recapturing activities for a portion of the mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) of real estate investment trust Annaly Capital Management , the companies announced on Tuesday. The nation’s largest mortgage lender serviced 2.6 Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Closing 407

Closing Principal Loans Finance 407

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Last year, fast-rising rates and related volatility, coupled with liquidity challenges in the bank and nonbank sectors, high home prices and a shortage of housing inventory all worked together to suppress mortgage originations and the secondary market outlets for those loans as well. trillion portfolio of MBS.

Mortgages 441

Mortgages Banks Loans Industrial 441