Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In the mortgage industry, where change is constant and challenges can be relentless, strong leadership isn’t just a competitive advantage; it’s the foundation that keeps teams grounded and resilient. That’s the kind of mortgage organization that’s ready to navigate any challenge and take on every opportunity that comes its way.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

Ridgeland Mortgage , a recently formed joint venture between loanDepot and homebuilder Smith Douglas Homes , on Thursday announced the appointment of Teresa Carlile as president. In her new role, Carlile will lead Ridgelands growth strategy and daily operations.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

financial system, including the mortgage sector. Announced on Tuesday, the new rule mandates that financial providers — including banks, credit card issuers and mortgage companies — share personal financial data for free with their peers when customers request it.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

mortgage servicer as of September 2024, with an owned portfolio of $728 billion, per Inside Mortgage Finance. They concluded that Bayview and its affiliates delayed the regulatory process by not promptly complying with requests during the early stages of the inquiry. Lakeview was the third-largest U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

From the RISE stage in Las Vegas , Real unveiled three new products for agents and clients on Tuesday. Real also unveiled Leo of Clients on the RISE stage Tuesday. The Real Brokerage is keeping attendees of RISE, its third annual agent conference, on their toes. But Real agents are not the only ones receiving upgraded AI technology.

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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.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

Rocket Companies today announced the launch of Rocket.com, officially putting Rocket Mortgage and Rocket Homes on the same platform. The announcement comes shortly after Rocket unveiled the first stage of its rebrand and is a part of the company’s conscious effort to unify Rockets many companies under a single umbrella.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

Whether you’re in the marketing space, a mortgage executive at a lender or real estate leader, we’ve designed this so all attendees can learn from the path these creative and innovative executives have walked to inform your go-to-market strategy for 2024. “We The CMO Playbook sessions are especially interesting.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As high mortgage rates reshape the housing market, existing homes are making up a larger percentage of for-sale inventory, and homebuyers are taking notice. Recently, the “lock-in effect” has kept homeowners with historically low-rate mortgages from selling, but this effect is easing. million units. The sales pace was down 3.5%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This week, we count 14% more homes in the contract pending stage now than a year ago. Last year was weak as mortgage rates were hitting 8%. Mortgage rates were super high and inventory was building. That difference can be attributed to mortgage rates staying higher for longer through September. It’s really just one week.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

New data released Thursday by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) revealed that the delinquency rate for mortgages on one- to four-unit residential properties increased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 3.98% of all loans outstanding at the end of 2024.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2022

The national mortgage delinquency dropped to an all-time low in May, continuing two consecutive months of a decline since March. million properties were in early-stage delinquencies, defined as borrowers who missed a single mortgage payment, which is a slight increase of 0.2% A total of 1.46 A total of 1.46

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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%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

The Mortgage Collaborative ‘s ( TMC ) Emerging Technology Fund hosted its seventh annual Mortgage Tech Demo Day (MTD) on March 16 at the collaborative’s Live Large, Think Big! Were just getting started and we cant wait to keep building tech solutions that improve mortgage processes for lenders and borrowers.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

But in light of Redfins blockbuster sale to Rocket Mortgage that was announced less than two weeks later, hindsight dictates that Kelman may have known that the end of independence was coming for the company hes run for almost 20 years. Some of these companies are much younger and are in a heavy growth stage, so its not an exact comparison.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

mortgage delinquencies remained almost unchanged in July, nudging up 0.1 mortgage delinquencies remained near a record low in July, with the share of homes entering that status or progressing to later stages either unchanged or lower,” said Molly Boesel, principal economist for CoreLogic , in a news release. Overall U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

Sky-high home prices and elevated mortgage rates are putting increasing strain on homeowners. That’s the takeaway from two reports released this week showing that foreclosure activity and mortgage delinquencies are rising. Geographically, there’s divergence between mortgage delinquency and foreclosure activity.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

In an environment of high home prices and elevated mortgage rates , older homeowners taking a closer look at less expensive areas to make their money go further is not an isolated phenomenon. Real estate agent Lisa Di Pasquale described her success in such a scenario in a previous interview with HousingWire s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

The resulting housing market crash and the Great Recession led policymakers to overcorrect by tightening mortgage lending standards and limiting funds for new construction. Housing policy needs to be better at planning for the needs of different age groups and their life stages to avoid mismatches between supply and demand, Myers said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Digital mortgage exchange platform and loan aggregator MAXEX announced on Tuesday the hiring of mortgage technology veteran Daniel Wallace as its new chief operating officer. Wallace brings more than 30 years of experience as a leader of tech-focused mortgage, asset management and capital market platforms. “The U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Why are mortgage rates rising? The jobless claims data is my key 2023 economic data line for the bond market and mortgage rates because I don’t believe the Fed will pivot until the four-week moving average of jobless claims gets above 323,000. ” My answer: “Stop talking about raising rate at this stage with a hawkish outlook!”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

While delinquencies remain low overall, the number of delinquent loans ticked up in November, according to the latest ICE Mortgage Monitor report. Meanwhile, early-stage delinquencies (30 and 60 days past due) continued to increase. Moreover, early-stage delinquencies among VA loans hit their highest non-pandemic levels since 2009.

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Mortgages VA loan FHA loan Staging 459

Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

Mortgage industry veterans Eli Fairfield and Brian Keranen have joined Everett Financial (dba Supreme Lending ) as regional directors for the Pacific Southwest, the company announced. Fairfield and Keranen bring decades of experience in mortgage lending, as loan originators and managers in California.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In an industry where managing a web of technology vendors to support LO’s sales and marketing needs has become overwhelmingly complex, inefficient and creates unnecessary security and compliance risks, CANDID is quickly becoming a leader in transforming how mortgage lenders operate.

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Mortgages Technology Staging Industrial 459

Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has terminated the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) direct endorsement approval for Open Mortgage in Iowa. “HUD Texas-based multichannel lender Open Mortgage has originated about $400 million in mortgages over the past 12 months, per mortgage tech platform Modex.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

It is the ballet of our lives being rendered on a stage we can finance thanks to a robust secondary market. Mortgages are the ink in the typewriter. David Wickert is the president at Accunet Mortgage. Over the past few years, the noisy misdirection of data had us thinking homeownership was cerebral. Its storytelling.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

While the mortgage delinquency rate remains low compared to pre-pandemic levels , the number of delinquent loans ticked up in September, according to the ICE Mortgage Monitor report. Meanwhile, early-stage delinquencies (30 and 60 days past due) continued to increase. However, the rate of serious delinquencies remains 6.7%

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Mortgages Staging Loans Sales 482

Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

I do think the price of a mortgage should go down, he said. The primary difficulty cited was the effort required 63% were surprised by the demands of staging, showings and repairs, while 37% were caught off guard by the emotional toll. It could be something like having a special loan with a lower rate for those buyers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

According to Todman, the industry has been asking for years for HUD to be helpful on assumable mortgages, which “is a complex transaction that she has “come to understand that sometimes the juice is not worth the squeeze.” ” There was a “hue and cry,” Todman said. .

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Mortgages Loans Staging Industrial 468

Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

Rising mortgage rates and sky-high home prices have sidelined many would-be buyers. Long-term growth Roughly 110,000 single-family rental homes are currently under construction or in the planning stages nationwide, according to Point2Homes. The build-to-rent market has undergone a complete transformation in the last half-decade.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The mortgage industry has complained loudly and often that government regulation and investor requirements are contributing to spiraling costs that get passed on to consumers. “They can add up to several percentage points of the total mortgage amount. . At least when it comes to redundancies with refinancings, that is.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2023

The haunted house ride with the bond market and mortgage rates continued this week, but one housing data line hasn’t been spooked. New listing data appears unafraid of the mortgage rate ghost story over the last few months. Mortgage rates went from 7.66% to 8.03 % last week to end at 7.97%.

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Mortgages Staging Sales Marketing 538

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Mortgage rates continued their downward plunge this week as inflation keeps decelerating. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.63% as of Feb. 1, a decrease from last week’s figure of 6.69%, according to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey released on Thursday. Is the housing market normalizing?

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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% While there was a decrease in the share of mortgages six months or more past due, there was a compensating increase in early-stage delinquencies. The overall U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

Its a busy time to be in the proprietary reverse mortgage space, with new and relaunched products hitting the market and other additional features being added to existing product catalogs. Earlier this month, Longbridge Financial announced the addition of Platinum Peak , a new variation of its private fixed-rate reverse mortgage offering.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The overall national mortgage delinquency rate rose in the fourth quarter of 2022, due in part to a weaker economy and ongoing inflationary pressures. For the past 15 years, mortgage delinquencies have tracked very closely with employment conditions, Marina Walsh, MBA’s vice president of industry analysis, noted. by the end of 2023.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

After mortgage rates spiked to 8% in October, causing a riot in the real estate industry, we had an epic move lower in mortgage rates last week. Does this mean we’ve hit the peak in mortgage rates for this economic cycle? When mortgage rates rise and demand decreases, the percentage of homes with price cuts can grow.

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