Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

The product is designed to help homeowners convert a portion of their home equity into tax-free funding for retirement planning, insurance, annuities, and other financial needs, the company explained. The company argues that its product aligns with the needs of financial advisors, insurance professionals, and wealth managers.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

Offering the public access to appraisal data for FHA-insured loans will bolster policymakers’ efforts to identify and address potential inaccuracy, bias, and discrimination in the broader mortgage market.” million appraisals conducted from 2013 through 2022.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

With the completion of this eighth CAS transaction of 2022, Fannie Mae will have brought a total of 52 CAS deals to market since the program was started in 2013 , issued some $58 billion in notes, and transferred a portion of the credit risk to private investors on over $1.9

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2021

The company, one of the “Big Four” title insurers, agreed to pay a $1.185 million penalty after California state regulators alleged that a marketing representative provided agents illegal perks such as video marketing and drone footage of listings with placement on social media sites, and bus caravans to promote listings.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

The Community Home Lenders Association (CHLA) sent a letter, signed by 41 independent mortgage banks, to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) on Wednesday urging the administration to cut mortgage insurance premiums. We will continue to be judicious about if, when, and how we consider changes to FHA’s mortgage insurance premiums.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2021

The Housing Policy Council sent a letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday expressing its opposition to delaying the implementation of the Final QM Rule and expiration of the 2013 QM Rule, set to take effect on July 1, 2021. 1, 2022 and opened up a comment period.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Fannie Mae has finalized its ninth Credit Insurance Risk Transfer (CIRT) transaction of the year, transferring some $700 million of mortgage credit risk to private insurers and reinsurers, the agency announced. The insurance coverage is provided based on actual losses over a 12.5-year The coverage, which became effective Aug.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2021

Freddie Mac implemented the CRT structure in 2013 to reduce the taxpayer’s exposure to its mortgage risks, shifting the risk of credit losses on the mortgages they insure onto investors. From 2013 to February 2021, the GSEs shed $126 billion of risk, at a net cost of $15 billion.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

Fannie Mae announced on Monday that it has executed two new Credit Insurance Risk Transfer (CIRT) deals: CIRT 2023-2 and CIRT 2023-3. The deals will transfer a combined $926 million of mortgage credit risk to private insurers and reinsurers. These are the second and third CIRT deals of 2023. billion of coverage, which was more than 2.7

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2021

After reading the recent report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency on the performance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’ s credit risk transfer programs, anyone unfamiliar with the purposes of CRT might understandably conclude that the GSEs vastly overpaid capital market investors and insurance providers to transfer credit risk off their books.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Freddie Mac’s CRT program was founded with its issuance of the first STACR notes in July 2013. Freddie’s other single-family CRT program, the Agency Credit Insurance Structure (ACIS) program, shares risk with re-insurance companies. It was introduced in November 2013.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

80% LTVs (no mortgage insurance required) and 80.01-85% 85% LTVs (with mortgage insurance) by credit score. It is clear from Figure 3 that while net loss rates were significantly higher for the 2005-2007 vintages than 2013-2015 originations, the net loss rate curve is flatter for the 2013-2015 cohort.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2021

Mortgage industry groups on Tuesday made their voices heard in response to the Department of Housing and Urban Development ’s proposed reinstatement of its 2013 disparate impact rule. Numerous industry stakeholders asked HUD to make some changes to the regulation to raise and further explain the threshold for disparate impact claims.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Lawrence DeMille-Wagman, CFPB’s attorney, argued that a consent agreement from 2013 did not excuse the mortgage servicer from future violations and that Ocwen is on the hook for alleged wrongdoings. Last March, U.S. The CFPB declined to comment. Ocwen did not return a request for comment.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors ’ (CSBS) board of directors appointed Brandon Milhorn – current deputy to Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) vice chairman Travis Hill – as its incoming president and chief executive officer (CEO). Milhorn will assume the new role on Dec. 4, succeeding James Cooper.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Configured to give independent mortgage banks, federally insured banks and credit unions the needed tools at an accessible price point, Floify Lender Edition aims to increase lender profitability through its automated processes and efficiency tools, the company said. .” Founded in 2013, Floify — a subsidiary of Porch Group Inc. —

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2022

Fannie Mae has executed two new Credit Insurance Risk Transfer (CIRT) deals — the seventh and eighth of 2022 — dubbed CIRT 2022-7 and CIRT 2022-8. The two transactions convey a combined $1 billion in mortgage credit risk to private insurers and re-insurers as part of the agency’s ongoing effort to share risk with the private sector.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Fannie Mae opened 2022 with its 45 th credit-risk transfer (CRT) deal through its Connecticut Avenue Securities (CAS) real estate mortgage investment conduit, or REMIC, bringing the collective value of notes issued through the conduit to nearly $52 billion since the first offering in 2013. trillion.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

In a final rule titled “Strengthening the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Program,” FHA codified several significant changes to the HECM program that were previously issued by HUD under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008 and the Reverse Mortgage Stabilization Act of 2013.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Porch, a home services marketplace with partners in insurance, utilities, home inspection and moving, plans to use the cash to pursue acquisitions to seize the opportunity in real estate. ” Porch, founded in 2013, has had challenges on its journey to becoming a public company. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Northpointe, a private depository institution insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), was established in 1999 with a focus on residential mortgage loan origination and servicing. Northpointe became an approved seller and servicer for Freddie Mac in 2013, Fannie Mae in 2014 and Ginnie Mae in 2016.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

The bureau alleged that Ocwen botched “basic functions like sending accurate monthly statements, properly crediting payments and handling taxes and insurance.”. In 2013, the CFPB accused Ocwen of “engaging in significant and systematic misconduct that occured at every stage of the mortgage servicing process.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

The offering totals were across the agency’s flagship Structured Agency Credit Risk (STACR) and Agency Credit Insurance Structure (ACIS) programs, along with other risk-sharing transactions. Through the A CIS transactions, a portion of the credit risk on mortgages backed by Fannie and Freddie is shifted to insurers in the private sector.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2023

Some may also charge other fees for such things as Errors & Omissions insurance, desk rental, technology, etc. Flat-fee firms climbing up the brokerage rankings Interestingly, in 2013 only five of the top 100 firms in the nation, according to the RealTrends 500 rankings , were flat-fee firms.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Amrock , a title insurance, property valuations and settlement services provider that is part of the Rocket Companies family, announced Wednesday that longtime CEO, Brian Hughes will be retiring later this month and Nicole Beattie, the current vice president of mortgage servicing at sister company Rocket Mortgage , will take over.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

billion via five STACR and three Agency Credit Insurance Structure (ACIS) CRT deals. billion via 10 STACR securities offerings and 8 ACIS insurance-coverage CRT deals, da ta from Freddie shows. Freddie Mac, year to date through early June 2022, ha s transferred a total of $10.9 billion in risk from reference pools valued at $300.9

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

Mortgage Insurers — sent a letter on Monday to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to express concerns about the FHFA’s intent to publish the VantageScore 4.0 The VantageScore dataset that is scheduled to be made available includes information going back to 2013, which is not far enough, the groups assert.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

The third PLF reduction in October 2013 was assessed in more granular detail and concluded that “the first and second reductions may have helped remove so many potentially marginal loans from the population that models could not detect any beneficial effects due to the third reduction and drawdown restriction,” the report said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

These groups, like BNI, consist of one person per industry — one real estate agent, one lender, one insurance agent, etc. About Ashley Harwood Ashley Harwood began her real estate career in 2013 and built a six-figure business as a solo agent before launching Move Over Extroverts in 2018. That’s all.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Thomas O’Brien, former CEO and president at Insurance Auto Auctions Pam Patenaude, former deputy secretary of HUD and co-founder of the J.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2022

With the completion of its third CRT transaction this year, Fannie Mae will have brought 47 CAS deals to market, issued over $53 billion in notes since its initial offering in 2013, and transferred a portion of the credit risk to private investors on some $1.7 million of credit risk to a group of 22 private insurers and reinsurers.

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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). Treasury in 2013. billion — possibly the highest ever recorded and just $15.6

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

CHLA is calling on FHFA to take the additional step of barring volume discounts for large lenders in mortgage insurance (MI) coverage of high-LTV GSE loans. FHA is overcharging for its loans – both in the annual premiums it charges and its policy since 2013 of charging premiums for the Life of the Loan.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 12, 2024

Freddie Mac reports that its Single-Family Credit Risk Transfer (CRT) Program has closed its 100th ACIS (Agency Credit Insurance Structure) transaction. Since the first transaction in 2013, Freddie Mac has credit protected more than $2.5 The transaction executed in the third quarter.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

billion in notes backed by mortgage pools valued in total at nearly $829 billion through 10 STACR offerings and 11 ACIS [Agency Credit Insurance Structure] transactions. Since the first CRT transaction in 2013, Freddie Mac’s single-family CRT program has cumulatively transferred approximately $85.3

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

In the end, some $850,000 in claims had to be paid on defaulted government-backed mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). The nonbank share for agency [mortgage] originations has been rising steadily since 2013, standing at 75.1

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2022

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Reserve System , and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) oversee and regulate the activities of banks. In its October 2021 letter, the CHLA called on the CFPB to close loopholes in the LO Comp rule , which implemented certain sections of the SAFE Act in 2013.

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