Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2021

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Total endorsements between fiscal years 2009 and 2023 were 863,102, a rough estimate of the total number of customers served by the HECM program since the early aftermath of the Great Recession. Loan amounts and HECM limits The actuarial report also detailed loan amount information and how these have changed since fiscal year 2009.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

Individuals across the country put the American dream of homeownership on standby for the week ending May 13, reducing mortgage application volume by 11% compared to the prior week, as measured by the Mortgage Bankers Association ‘s (MBA’s) Market Composite Index. The decline was propelled primarily by purchase-application activity.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

360), an online regulated training provider, acquired Mortgage Educators and Compliance (MEC), a mortgage lending training company, both companies announced this week. Approved by the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS) since 2009, MEC specializes in online mortgage and financial services professional development.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2020

At its Annual event Wednesday, Mortgage Bankers Association Chief Economist Mike Fratantoni forecast that interest rates could rise in the year to come, but that they will remain near all-time lows. Yes, it’s come down to 10 million, but look at how that compares again to the peak in 2009 of 6.6 million,” he said. “Yes,

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

Traditional equity-tapping methods — such as selling the home or taking out a home equity loan — could present lifestyle challenges, which is where alternative options like reverse mortgages can come into play. Interest rates also further complicate matters if the homeowner has a more beneficial mortgage rate than is available today.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Mortgage fintechs Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach reduced employee headcount by at least 20 this month as the industry struggles to stay afloat amid mortgage lenders rightsizing during one of the most challenging times. Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach declined to comment on the size and reason for the layoffs.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2022

Mortgage rates surged to 5.27% over the last week, the highest average since 2009, according to the latest Freddie Mac PMMS. This week’s average purchase mortgage rate rose 17 basis points from the prior week’s 5.10%. This week, mortgage application volume rose 2.5% from the previous week. Presented by: Polly.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mortgage tech firms Mortgage Coach and Polly have teamed up on a new application programming interface (API) integration that guides borrowers through a visual representation of their loan options. The new API integration will feed real-time data from Polly’s cloud-based PPE into Mortgage Coach’s total cost analysis (TCA) presentation.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Industry veteran Rick Roque has resigned from his position as corporate vice president at retail mortgage lender CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM) to join multichannel player Sierra Pacific Mortgage as executive vice president of retail. Roque, who co-founded M&A and retail mortgage banking firm Menlo Co.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2022

Interest in residential mortgage loans fell 8.3% for the week ending April 22, including a sharp decline in purchase applications, which indicates a potential weakness in home sales in the coming months, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association ‘s (MBA) latest survey. from a year ago. from the prior week and was down 16.6%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

In the late 2000s, Ryan Schmidt was a restaurant manager with no real understanding of the reverse mortgage product. It wouldn’t take long for that to change, however, and Schmidt now serves as the vice president of partner engagement at Finance of America Reverse (FAR), the reverse mortgage industry market leader in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

However, I will give you all the charts to show Uncle Dave that housing credit doesn’t look like it did in 2008 because the qualified mortgage (QM) law makes that impossible. None of that action has been happening for 14 years because the credit market changed after the 2010 qualified mortgage rule.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. Department of Justice (DOJ) over the regulators’ allegations of mortgage lending discrimination in majority-Black neighborhoods of the Birmingham, Alabama , metro area. The agreement, which was submitted for court approval, requires the Madison, Wisconsin-based mortgage lender to pay a $1.9

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Home price corrections exposed a growing pocket of equity risk concentrated among purchase mortgages originated in 2022, Black Knight said in its latest mortgage monitor report. Of all homes purchased with a mortgage in 2022, 8% are now at least marginally underwater. More recent homebuyers don’t fare as well. “A

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

When industry veteran Michael Strauss abruptly shut down Long Island-based Sprout Mortgage in early July, there was uproar. million mortgage fraud settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to his name, seems to be back in the mortgage business. Shocked employees didn’t receive their last paychecks.

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JULY 29, 2024

According to a new CoreLogic study , a decrease in affordability has resulted from the simultaneous rise in mortgage rates and housing prices in the U.S. A percentage point increase in the mortgage rate results in increased monthly payments and extra expenses for homebuyers. in May 2024, the highest amount so far this year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Duncan joined Fannie Mae after a 15-year stint as an economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Palim joined Fannie Mae in December 2009 and was promoted to deputy chief economist in July 2016, according to his LinkedIn profile. Mark Palim, the company’s deputy chief economist, will succeed Duncan as chief economist.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2021

have taken advantage of its mortgage relief provisions. Thanks in large part to these programs, the sort of housing market crisis of the 2008-2009 Great Recession has thus far been avoided. Of course, servicers had experienced large volumes of borrower calls after the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) launched in 2009.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mortgage servicers received less complaints at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to data from Inside Mortgage Finance. The data showed that mortgage protests overall decreased by 6.7% in mortgage-related complaints. and criticisms about applications fell 8.6%.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mortgage banking executive and industry mergers & acquisitions advisor Rick Roque has taken a new executive position at NFM Lending. ” Roque’s arrival at NFM comes just a few months after he joined Sierra Pacific Mortgage as executive vice president of retail. . “Looking forward to seeing what we can do together.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2022

Fewer buyers rushed to lock mortgages last month amid a rapid climb in long-term mortgage rates , reflecting home affordability concerns, reports from Mortgage Capital Trading and Black Knight showed. . Compared with the same period last year, the number of rate locks by mortgage volume was down 25.4%. .

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2022

With near record-low unemployment and massive job openings, you would assume mortgage rates should be skyrocketing, but they’re not. The 10-year yield and mortgage rates. Accordingly, my upper end range in mortgage rates is 3.375%-3.625% and the lower end range is 2.375%-2.50%. Current conditions don’t support this.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We’ve had the sharpest and yet also the shortest recession in history, record-low mortgage rates leading to record origination volumes, and record home prices as housing demand far outstripped supply. How will the Federal Reserve respond to economic developments in 2022, and what will be the impact on mortgage rates?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Amid the expectation of a wave of mergers and acquisitions in 2023, nonbank mortgage lenders American Portfolio Mortgage Corporation and Town Square Mortgage announced on Wednesday that the companies are merging their operations. This week, Guild announced it has acquired Legacy Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

Recent data from Inside Mortgage Finance shows a significant leap in broker market share, jumping to 24.3% in Q4 2023, the highest number we’ve seen since 2009. The significant cost savings of working with an independent mortgage broker has also become more widely known. The big question is, what caused this increase?

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2024

She previously served at Fannie Mae in multiple roles from 1997 to 2009, including stints as director of the offices of corporate justice, corporate justice and employment practices, and human resources at different points between 1997 and 2002.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

David Stevens, a legend of the mortgage banking industry who helmed the Federal Housing Agency and the Mortgage Bankers Association in a career that spanned four decades, has died. He left government service and became president of the Mortgage Bankers Association. Broeksmit described Stevens as “great mentor, boss, and friend.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

Last month, Northeast regional lender WSFS Mortgage released the results of a survey that measured reverse mortgage product sentiments. To get a better idea of what motivated the survey and its desire to learn more about reverse mortgages, RMD sat down with WSFS Mortgage President Jeffrey Ruben.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Despite feelings of optimism expressed by loan originators in the opening weeks of 2024, the road to more normalized levels of reverse mortgage volume and securities issuances may be longer than expected. Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements fell 11.8% and Longbridge Financial recorded increases for the month.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

From 2010 to 2024, the reverse mortgage industry sought to allow remote reverse mortgage counseling in the state of Massachusetts, citing an insufficient number of actual counselors and logistical challenges for senior clients. Sponsored primarily by then-Sen. Logistically difficult’ Industry reactions at the time were swift.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

With ongoing liquidity challenges and a continuing lag in Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) case numbers, reverse mortgage business in 2024 started off with a bit of a whimper. New York passed a law in 2021 that allows for proprietary reverse mortgages to be conducted on co-ops, but HECM loans do not qualify.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank resumed mortgage originations on Tuesday via its newly established “bridge bank” — just four days after California state regulators took possession of the financial institution and appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) as receivers. SVB’s mortgage origination volume reached $2.4

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2024

A New York jury found Vishal Garg, CEO and founder of digital mortgage lender Better.com , liable for breach of fiduciary duty and conversion in a decade-long lawsuit filed by his former partner, Raza Khan. million to Educational Investment & Finance Corporation (EIFC), the company the partners founded in 2009. This includes $2.3

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

After a few months of downward data in its performance metrics, the reverse mortgage industry saw a slightly different story play out in March that should come as welcome news. Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements increased 8.3% The gains were led by Guild Mortgage (rising 96.6% to 84 loans), respectively.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

From 2009 to 2019, the share of recent buyers who are 60 years and old grew 47% , while the share of recent buyers ages 18-39 fell by 13%. In addition, the median age of a homebuyer who completed their purchase within the past year rose from 40 in 2009 to 44 in 2019. Over the same time period, home values grew 31.2%.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

“That works out to nearly $178,000 available in tappable equity to the average homeowner with a mortgage before hitting a maximum combined loan-to-value ratio of 80%.”. Overall, mortgage holders withdrew more than $70 billion in equity in the third quarter, equivalent to just 0.8% will result in the tightest affordability since 2009.

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