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JANUARY 28, 2025

Riccio began his career in the mortgage industry in 2002 and has held key leadership roles with several prominent organizations, including Stearns Lending and Caliber Home Loans.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

First, the refinance boom’s main driver in the 2000s was unhealthy because of the marketplace’s speculative unhealthy lending standards. Home prices were growing at an unsustainable level from 2002-2005, leading to some excess risk-taking on inadequate loan debt structures.

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Housing Wire

JULY 3, 2024

” Christie’s International Real Estate Belgium is the real estate arm of Hillewaere Group , a firm established in 2002 by Roel Druyts that offers real estate , insurance and mortgage lending services.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

today and why they’re so different than the period of 2002-2008. However, the current housing market is much different than the credit boom-and-bust cycle of 2002-2008, and it’s vital to understand why. How can we be sure not to make the same mistake that millions of people made by calling for housing to crash in 2020 and 2021?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Increasing lending and servicing capacity – regardless of mortgage rates. “Home prices have caught up to per capita income, just like what we saw in 2002. As mortgage rates come off of their historic lows, mortgage applications followed suit, dropping for the second week, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2021

Regions Bank is looking to make a big dent in the home improvement lending space , striking a deal to acquire EnerBank USA for $960 million in cash. The Salt Lake City-based lender says it’s worked with over 1 million homeowners since its founding in 2002 and funded $11.6 billion in home improvement projects.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

“This is about the same rate of price growth that occurred during the 2002 through 2006 period when subprime lending drove exuberant housing demand. “But that is where the similarities end.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

She has served as president of Lennar Mortgage, the mortgage lending subsidiary of Lennar Corp., Escobar joined Lennar Mortgage in 2002 as branch manager. Escobar is a 37-year mortgage industry veteran, She has held leadership positions with both bank-owned and independent mortgage companies overseeing all aspects of mortgage banking.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2020

This is evident if one compares the purchase application data from the overheating market of 2002-2005 to the period between 2012-2020. First the rate of growth in no way compares to what we had during the bubble years of 2002-2005. While sales are and will stay elevated compared the COVID-19 lows, the market is not bubbly.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

These sales have been tested by HUD since 2002, but HUD said that the proposed rule will improve community stability and expand the availability of affordable homes for families as the market faces a supply challenge.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The housing market of 2002-2005 had four years of sales growth facilitated by credit. However, what isn’t identical is that we have not had a massive sales boom like we saw from 2002-2005. This is significantly different than the period from 2002-2005 when credit expansion was booming. Home sales. Housing credit.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

HomeStar — founded in 2002 as a local mortgage bank in Georgia — offers conventional, government and jumbo purchase loans, as well as refinances, reverse mortgages and a doctor/medical professional mortgage program. OCMBC also originated $2.1 billion in volume in nonqualified mortgage ( non-QM ) volume, placing No.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Tyrrell joined Ellie Mae in 2002, where he was promoted to executive vice president in 2013 from chief operating officer and senior vice president. Bowler will be in charge of ICE’s business segment, which is focused on automating elements of the mortgage industry and delivered a revenue of $1.1 billion in 2022, the firm said Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

Wade Susini, chief lending officer at Dominion Financial Services, told HousingWire in an email response that while inventory levels remain low across the U.S., A national lender, Dominion was founded in 2002 and has reportedly funded more than $3 billion in loans across more than 11,000 deals.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

I’m not saying that home-price growth will somehow morph into a speculation bubble like it did in the 2000s — our credit lending standards will prevent that — but housing could become considerably less affordable even with low mortgage rates if this continues. The median sales price is now 11.4% higher than a year ago. Context is key!

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2022

Kumar was a manager at Standard Chartered Bank from 2002 to 2004. “We intend to change how lending is going to be done fundamentally – behavior, market dynamics, products,” Kumar said. He will serve as LendArch’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. .

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

Escobar’s background will ensure members’ “commitment to advancing homeownership and affordable rental housing opportunities nationwide,” said Kristy Fercho, 2022 MBA chair and executive vice president and head of home lending at Wells Fargo. Lennar Mortgage’s network includes more than 1,100 workers across 20 states.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Legacy, headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was founded in 2002 and purchased by its CEO Jack Thompson in 2006. Clients will also benefit from access to new digital and customer relationship tools that improve every step in the lending experience, including servicing, a Guild strength for decades,” Thompson said in prepared remarks.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

in September 2002. Ravi Correa is Chief Financial Officer at Angel Oak Lending and responsible for all financial aspects for Angel Oak-related mortgage lending entities. That said, it’s still a far cry from 1980, when inflation spiked to a staggering 14%. consumers are about the economy and their finances.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

housing market, and we should never ease lending standards to try to facilitate demand. Lending standards are already liberal enough, so we don’t need to go down that avenue. Late cycle lending is always a risk in the lending industry. Again, what happened in housing from 2002 to 2008? We had a credit boom.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Founded in 2002, Homestar is a full-service mortgage banker that offers conventional, government, jumbo, reverse loans, refinance loans and a doctor/medical professional mortgage program. Your loan should still close on time!

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

As you can see below, the new home sales market from 2018-2022 doesn’t look like the housing market we had from 2002-2005. Could you imagine this housing market if we eased lending standards? I would be protesting in front of Congress and speaking at congressional hearings if lending standards were reduced.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

This means we don’t have enough housing inventory available because with lending standards back to normal we can’t replicate the credit demand we saw in housing from 2002-2005. I have often said that anytime days on the market are at a teenager level, nothing good will happen. Also, this is what the Federal Reserve wants.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Both these laws paved the way for more responsible lending and a more responsible consumer. The FOMO demand (fear of missing out) credit boom from 2002 to 2005, as we can see below, has not happened in the last 10 years. In 2000, we saw a lot of credit stress in the system. Purchase application data is below 2008 levels today.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 17, 2021

Between 2002-2005 in many markets, the real estate market was scorching, much like it is today. Appraisers’ jobs are not to facilitate mortgage lending. This left the appraiser wide-open to being a target of “a series of errors” that affected the credibility of the valuation results. It is not our job to kill or make deals.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Due to the loosey-goosey lending standards of the time, many of these delinquent loan holders had little to negative equity. Here is why I don’t believe that will happen: We do not have an overheated multi-year credit bubble among mortgage holders like we had from 2002-2005. The number isn’t growing; it’s slowly shrinking.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

However, we haven’t had a credit sales boom like the one we saw from 2002-2005. Nor can we ever have a credit sales boom again with lending standards back to normal. As I have stressed, people need to be patient with inventory growth and not run 2002-2011 credit sales to inventory models for this marketplace.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Glenn Stearns , founder and CEO of Kind Lending , is a regular TikToker and in one video he was asked the most important lessons he learned in business and his response was “This too shall pass.”. In fact, while in won’t match 2020 or 2021, purchase mortgage dollar volume should be better than any year from 2002–2020.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2020

The most abhorrent racist practices, such as redlining, are officially prohibited, yet bias creeps into mortgage lending in myriad ways. This makes it more important than ever to consider how the U.S. will finally welcome persons of color to share fully in the American dream of homeownership. It’s a serious challenge.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

AmCap, founded in 2002, is a much smaller lender. . “I am very proud of what we built at AmCap over the years, but I fully recognize what got us here wasn’t going to get us to where we ultimately wanted to be as a business unit,” Clayton said in a statement. In terms of volume, CCM claims it originated $31.6

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Some appraisers, a true minority, have been able to transition to private, non-mortgage-lending appraisal work, but that’s not as easy as some advocate. And many appraisers who only know how to do mortgage lending assignments are reluctant to market themselves outside that confined space. The GSEs started keeping track in 71.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 12, 2023

In 2000 and 2002, Architectural Digest named him one of the top 100 architects in the United States. Mortgage lending is very, very cyclical. I agree that I would be world-famous and rich if I could predict mortgage lending cycles! This is to follow up on a meeting Appraisal Institute representatives held in Washington, D.C.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Mortgage Lending You decide. Excerpts: Accurate appraisals are essential to the integrity of mortgage lending. percent, but remained close to its highest since 2002,” said Joel Kan, MBA’s Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist. Do not use lender forms. Type of report. Lender decides You decide.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

This strategy often backfires because parties involved in the lending process cannot find the specific information they are looking for in the report. I’m reading lots of predictions from people in high places in the real estate and lending worlds saying that the correction is underway, and it’s all about affordability.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In fact, mortgage rates over the last decade have been lower almost every month compared to those during the housing bubble years and we have not seen the massive sales we saw from 2002-2005. Nonetheless, during those years, existing home sales, new home sales, home prices, housing starts, permits, and completions were booming.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2022

Faulty loans on mobile homes led to the downfall of the nation’s largest manufactured home lender in 2002, ensnaring Fannie Mae on its way down, an episode both GSEs remember well. But when home prices depreciated, it flamed out, and its parent Conseco filed for bankruptcy protection in 2002.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

While investors of mortgaged securities help dictate their interest rates, the Federal Reserve is behind the scenes influencing the overall lending environment. We are now seeing “7s” in front of some rates to new mortgage consumers – a figure not seen since April 2002 – causing applications for new loans to hit a 25-year low this month. (

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