Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Choctaw American Insurance was the only lease-to-own company to land on the list. year over year to 251,462, the lowest fourth-quarter level since 2012, Redfin reported. A variety of companies earned a spot on the top 10 list for 2023, including real estate investment trusts such as Pretium , Amherst , Invitation Homes and Tricon.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

has honored a longtime professional in its ranks with a lifetime achievement award, in recognition of his 40-year career in the mortgage banking, real estate , homebuilding and title insurance industries. The reverse mortgage division of Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

It also allows qualifying veterans to get into the housing market with no down payments, limited closing costs, and no monthly mortgage insurance costs. from 2012 to 2021. Across the country, 180 loan program originations took place between 2012 and 2021. interest rate for the life of the loan. “VA

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2022

housing entities are at odds over the future of the federal government’s cash-strapped flood insurance program. NAR, meanwhile, no longer wants to see states excluded from the federal government’s flood insurance program due to not meeting FEMA standards. After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Congress increased NFIP’s borrowing limit to $30.5

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2021

Over the last two years, Blend has acquired its own mortgage insurance firm and title insurance firm (the latter in a $422 million deal). Blend, which launched in 2012, raised $300 million in January, not long after it introduced a series of consumer banking tools. Integrating real estate agents is next.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2021

Unlike lenders or servicers for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , Ginnie Mae issuers are responsible for passing along payments to investors after borrower equity, federal agency and mortgage insurance resources are exhausted. If those issuers fail, Ginnie Mae is ultimately responsible for making those investor payments.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2021

It has raised a total of $655 million since its founding in 2012, according to Crunchbase. The company also stepped in to the title insurance realm in March after Blend announced it was expanding its cloud-based platform thanks to the acquisition of Title365 from the Mr. Cooper Group. That acquisition cost roughly $422 million.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2023

Founded in 2012, Blend went public in 2021. One is by diving deeper into the broader homeownership journey to offer ways for applicants to find homeowners and title insurance. The company’s white-label technology powers mortgage applications on the websites of major lenders, such as Wells Fargo and U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

There are three core provisions in the ML, including a modification of HECM insurance regulations “by defining the date of default as the date for determining the debenture interest rate on loans that become due and payable” after publication of the ML. HERMIT was launched by HUD in October 2012 after a protracted development cycle.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Most years that number is closer to 30%, said Ullmann, who’s been an LO since 2012. Mandatory mortgage insurance premiums were reduced to 55 basis points (bps) for most borrowers in February and FHA loans tend to come with lower interest rates than conventional loans.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2023

Established in 2012, HomeZada is a fully integrated, cloud-based platform dedicated to digital home management.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Approximately 65% of loans endorsed in Fiscal Year 2009 had an MCA of less than or equal to $300,000, and this percentage increased to approximately 72% by Fiscal Year 2012,” the report stated. As the principal limit has been increasing, the percentage of endorsements with an MCA over $417,000 has increased steadily since 2012.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. Fintech-focused Canapi Ventures led the investment, which brings Blend’s total venture raised to $365 million since its 2012 inception.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Liebowitz previously founded and led businesses in the insurance and finance sectors. Douglas Elliman agent Jessica Cohen claims that she told Lorber about being assaulted by the Alexander brothers in 2012, but the brokerage maintains that no formal complaint was lodged against them during their decade-long stint at the firm.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

For Gen Z, technology is second nature Gen Z is considered those who were born between 1997 and 2012 — today, members of Gen Z are between 11 and 26 years old. For example, in the past, people may have chosen to work with State Farm as an insurance provider because of its market share or brand recognition.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2023

Schoolfield and Shelton joined Movement in 2012, were promoted as divisional leaders in February 2021, and landed at Summit in July. million to settle allegations that it improperly originated and underwrote mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) programs.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

billion in 2012 to $2 billion in 2016. The holding company will invest in finance, insurance, and real estate businesses. Interfirst was founded in 2001 as a retail originator but expanded to the wholesale channel in 2008 and the correspondent channel in 2011. The company ceased operations in July 2017 after years of declining volumes.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 15, 2021

ClearPath Lending , a VA home loan origination firm, reports that it has provided more than 50,000 mortgage loans that were guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs or insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) since the company was founded in 2012.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 2, 2024

FNF is a provider of title insurance and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries and a provider of insurance solutions serving retail annuity and life customers and institutional clients through its majority-owned, publicly traded subsidiary F&G Annuities & Life, Inc.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The analysis examined data from 2012–2024. Listings Remain at Their Lowest Point in More Than 10 Years In the first eight months of 2024, there were fewer homes listed for sale as well—a level not seen since at least 2012, the first year listing data was available.

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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.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

It now faces a wave of mortgage maturities and payoffs on the thousands of affordable-housing complexes it has helped to finance over the years — with no new construction carried out under the program since 2012. The legislation would provide several tools to help stem the loss of Section 515 affordable-housing in rural America.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 8, 2024

Major homeownership expenses – including mortgage payments, property taxes and insurance – now consume about 35% of the average wage nationwide, according to ATTOM’s U.S. However, the trends this year are particularly challenging for house hunters, more so than at any point since the housing market boom began in 2012.”

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 5, 2024

Ryan joined Fitch Ratings in 2012. O’Loughlin is a Senior Director in Fitch Ratings’ North American Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) Group, and is based on New York. His focus is split between analyzing new issue rating transactions, as well surveying the existing portfolio of outstanding ratings.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

Savkar has been a part of Wolters Kluwer since 2012, when he joined as vice president and general manager of the Legal & Regulatory division. Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions is a provider of risk management and regulatory compliance solutions and services to banks, credit unions, insurers, and securities firms.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2021

It has raised a total of $655 million since its founding in 2012, according to Crunchbase. Doma , a title insurance firm , and digital lender SoFi are also both hoping to go public this year at valuations of $3 billion and about $9 billion, respectively. That January round gave Blend a $3.3 billion valuation.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

In its most recent annual report to Congress, November 2020, the Federal Housing Administration ( FHA ) published its “capital ratio,” a measure of capital reserves to insurance-in-force held within the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMI Fund). The same report revealed FHA had amassed capital reserves in the amount of $78.9

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Real estate still relies on a “system” unable to integrate production across the silos of media, brokerage, lending, insurance and trading. It entered real estate in 2012 after buying DebtMarket, an exchange for distressed home debt. Many industries began to deploy electronic supply chains in the 1980’s.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2023

This is the first year CityLight Homes, which was founded in 2012 by Robert Berry, has made the list. From showing homes to inspectors to attorneys to insurance services to moving services we bring all of these assets to bear on every transaction.” 186 spot on the Inc. 5000 list, with a 3-year growth rate of 2,870%. RedBird Realty (No.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

“This creates a very challenging environment for volume-sensitive businesses such as mortgage originators and title insurers,” the analysts said. ” However, the median-priced home is worth about $80,000 more than in 2020 and $200,000 more than in 2012. trillion in 2022 and $2.17 trillion in 2023.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2023

Tracking the 10-year yield and mortgage rates are essential for housing inventory because when rates fall, buyer demand gets better, allowing more homes to be bought and getting a lid on inventory growth, which we have seen since 2012. While the labor market is getting less tight, it’s not broken yet.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Most years that number is closer to 30%, said Ullmann, who’s been an LO since 2012. About half of Ullmann’s production in 2023 came from VA and FHA loans as well as mortgages that require down payment assistance.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In addition to minimum industry standards, RON platforms and RON service providers must be able to implement and apply any required overlays from transaction stakeholders, such as secondary market investors and title insurance underwriters.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 21, 2024

He accepted his current position in 2012. Department of Labor’s Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report (Thursday) The post The Week Ahead: Servicers Navigate Policy Updates first appeared on The MortgagePoint. Trevayne is former U.S. Army in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

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Valuation Review

JANUARY 3, 2022

These were guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs or insured by the Federal Housing Administration since the company was founded in 2012. ClearPath Lending, a VA home loan origination firm, has provided more than 50,000 mortgage loans.

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Miller Samuel

MARCH 19, 2019

The 20 and 30-year holding periods assumptions might be more realistic given the long term view of investors after the decline in prices of the past several years and the phenomenon of capital preservation in this latest development frenzy since 2012.

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Lamacchia Realty

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Kim has been with Lamacchia Realty since 2012 and has held a variety of roles, from Administrative Assistant, Office Manager and Staff Training Manager. In this new role, Kim will now take on more business responsibilities within Lamacchia Companies, including business insurances, bonds, and licenses.

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