Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2021

SoFi co-founder Mike Cagney’s latest digital mortgage operation Figure Lending closed on a $100 million funding facility from JPMorgan Chase this week. In a statement, Figure said the $100 million loan facility represents another push toward growth in mortgage lending. How 2020 continues to impact mortgage closings.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2020

A former Quicken Loans executive, Booth has over 15 years of experience working in state and federal government bodies, focusing on transforming the mortgage industry through technology. Planet Home Lending has promoted four people to vice president positions, supporting the company’s continual growth.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. After the 2008 mortgage meltdown, JVM let go of all its loan originators and trained its employees to target the jumbo loan market in the San Francisco Bay area instead.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) on Wednesday published Mortgagee Letter (ML) 2024-18 , which implements updates to debenture interest rates and reimbursements for Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) program claims proposed in July. 19, 2017, which went into effect later that year. 19, 2017,” FHA said in its announcement.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A federal judge ordered Ronald McCord, the founder of Oklahoma City-based lender and servicer First Mortgage Company , who was also once the president of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), to pay $51.8 million in restitution for mortgage fraud. As the housing market changes, so does lending fraud.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

Wisconsin-based mortgage lender Waterstone Mortgage Corp. Among other things, Rico’s dedication, expertise, and enthusiasm for new challenges have earned him this promotion,” said Stephanie Ziebell, senior vice president of general counsel at Waterstone Mortgage, in a prepared statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2021

Tension between long-time rivals United Wholesale Mortgage and Rocket Pro TPO , formerly Quicken Loans Mortgage Services , reached a new boiling point after the top wholesale lender in the nation announced it will no longer work with brokers who also work with Rocket Mortgage. “They are dialed in to their industry.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2021

Over 70 mortgage lenders and brokers made the cut on Inc. had to have generated revenue by March 31, 2017, making at least $100,00 that year. Not surprisingly, the top mortgage lenders on the list were all tech-focused companies, leveraging in house and third-party solutions to simplify lending transactions. Real Estate.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) this week published a new proposed policy for the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) program, which would update the way debenture interest rates for HECM loans operate. Debenture interest refers to the percentage of a return that an investor would receive for lending money through a debenture.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

California-based retail lender American Pacific Mortgage (APM) has named vice chairman Bill Lowman as its chairman of the board, succeeding APM founder Kurt Reisig. FoA) months after it shut down its forward mortgage segment. billion during the same period in 2022, according to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF).

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Sierra Pacific Mortgage has hired Suzy Lindblom as its new Chief Operating Officer, the company announced in a LinkedIn post. With more than 40 years of experience in the mortgage industry, Lindblom was most recently chief operating officer (COO) at lender and servicer Arc Home , serving in that role from August 2022 to February 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2021

The founder of Oklahoma City-based lender and servicer First Mortgage Company , who was also the president of the Mortgage Bankers Association in the late 1990s, pleaded guilty to five counts of bank fraud, money laundering and false statements to a financial institution. His company serviced about 12,000 loans worth $1.8

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a consent order against two companies on Tuesday following recent investigations of mortgage companies that use deceptive mailers to advertise loans guaranteed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The most recent cases were those against Service 1st Mortgage, Inc. ,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Struggling fintech LoanSnap had its mortgage lender license in Connecticut revoked in early October by state authorities, adding to the company’s legal and financial problems. The firm was first licensed to do mortgage business in Connecticut in January 2021 and applied for a renewal in December 2023.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

New r ez has launched Onward Home Mortgage , a joint venture mortgage company in partnership with Keller Williams Georgia Legacy Group (GLCG). Through the partnership with agents at Keller Williams GLG, mortgage professionals at Onward Home Mortgage and Newrez will target borrowers in the Southeast United States.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A California regulator has revoked the residential mortgage lending license of LoanSnap , the latest in a series of difficulties for the fintech lender. The company — which is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California — also lost its mortgage lender license in Connecticut earlier this month.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

FNB was involved in the case as a successor in interest of Yadkin Bank , which it acquired in 2017. The complaint alleges that, from 2017 through 2021, FNB failed to provide mortgage services to predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Charlotte and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 2023, the bank originated about $2.3

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

As mortgage origination volume continues to fall from the heights of the pandemic-spurred boom, many lenders see cost-cutting as their top priority this year. With mortgage origination volume expected to drop by about 40% to $2.4 Direct to consumer lending can lower variable costs significantly.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

In the message reviewed by HousingWire, DeJoseph wrote that by becoming part of a larger organization, Garden State gains access to a “national lending platform, greater resources, enhanced career development opportunities, and the ability to offer more comprehensive services to our clients, well beyond residential mortgage lending.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Chicago-based mortgage originator Interfirst Mortgage Co. The company ceased operations in July 2017 after years of declining volumes. The team co-founded several businesses, such as the fintech Enova, real estate investment trusts (REIT) Pangea Properties and New Lake , and the online lending company Avant.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2021

Guild Mortgage now has offices in the Buckeye State. The publicly traded mortgage lender announced Tuesday that retail branches are now open in Dayton and Columbus, Ohio. It opened three new branches in North Dakota in 2017; acquired St. It opened three new branches in North Dakota in 2017; acquired St.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Benchmark Administration (IBA) , will take on a new role as president of ICE Mortgage Technology starting on March 1. 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 Timothy Bowler, president of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2022

Nearly 70 mortgage lenders and brokers made it on the list of Inc. All the top five mortgage lenders debuted on the Inc. theLender , which offers government and conventional mortgages as well as non-QM products, saw a 20,489% three-year growth rate. All the top five mortgage lenders debuted on the Inc. Zap Mortgage (no.335),

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The multi-channel mortgage lender hopes to raise $300 million by pricing its shares between $19 and $21. The momentum for non-bank lending is here to stay. Strategies lenders should adopt from direct to consumer lending. In 2017, the company revived plans for an IPO but didn’t take the plunge. The company generated $1.47

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

Homebuyers can secure a home mortgage using cryptocurrency as collateral through a new partnership between blockchain real estate platform Propy and crypto wallet service Abra. Abra Borrow users can seek “ Propy-certified” real estate agents to help them buy or sell property, including making down payments on mortgages. .

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

LoanDepot is poised to go public later this year, becoming “Lyft to Rocket Mortgage’s Uber,” according to a new report. The California-based mortgage lender headed by Anthony Hsieh could be worth between $12 billion and $14 billion in an IPO, according to Bloomberg ‘s sources. billion to $2.6

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2022

parent company of Flagstar Bank , has reduced its mortgage staff by 20% since the calendar turned to 2022, laying off 420 employees amid a significant drop in origination volumes and margins. Mortgage revenue decreased $36 million in the same period, to $74 million from January to March. Michigan-based Flagstar Bancorp , Inc.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2022

About five years ago, Linthicum, Maryland-based NFM Lending was looking for a way to shift from sporadic donations to service members to a dedicated effort that regularly recognized their sacrifice. According to Sher, the families are not the only ones impacted by the salutes but so is the NFM Lending staff. Espinoza was one of 13 U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2020

End-to-end lending and services platform Finance of America Capital is the latest mortgage company to get in on the mushrooming IPO craze. Finance of America, says its collection of companies has originated over $65 billion in loans since 2017. billion in securitized mortgages as of Oct. billion valuation.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Flagstar Bank and the FinTech Consortium revealed that fintech startups Home Lending Pal , Stavvy and Real Key are the latest initiates to the companies’ ongoing MortgageTech Accelerator program. RealKey was founded in 2015 by Christopher Hussain, who claims to have been the top mortgage originator in the U.S. in 2010 and 2011.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Nelson previously served as Guaranteed Rate’s senior vice president and divisional manager for the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions from August 2017 to May 2022. Since leaving Guaranteed Rate, Nelson held executive positions at Nations Lending and Movement Mortgage. 4 retail mortgage lender in the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 2016, Brad Sullivan’s Mortgage Financial Services ruled the roost in housing with a rank of 733. Griffin Funding was the fastest housing sector grower in 2017. And Nationwide Mortgage Bankers posted an insane average three-year growth rate of 16,396% in 2020. 2020 total volume for refinances and purchase mortgages totaled $3.83

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2024

million agreement with Citadel Federal Credit Union to settle allegations of lending discrimination in certain neighborhoods of Philadelphia with majority Black and Hispanic populations. As a result, peer lenders originated three times as many mortgages in areas where these groups were predominant.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Click n’ Close , a mortgage lender mostly active in the wholesale and correspondent channels, appointed Kara Lamphere to the role of chief operating officer (COO). Prior to joining Click n’ Close, Lamphere was COO at InterLinc Mortgage. She was among HousingWire’s Women of Influence in 2017 and in 2020.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The limit for federally backed reverse mortgages is increasing for the ninth consecutive year. That’s up $59,925 from the current limit of $1,149,825 for Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs), which equates to an increase of roughly 5%. compared to third-quarter 2023. million for the first time. 1, 2025, through Dec.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a consent order against Washington Federal Bank in October for Regulation C and Home Mortgage Disclosure Act violations. The bank will pay a $200,000 fine for reporting inaccurate HMDA data in 2016 and 2017 — with error rates up to 40% in some cases, according to the CFPB.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Chicago-based Interfirst Mortgage Co. To run the hub, the company hired Casey Nunn, a former Rocket Mortgage and Homepoint executive, as the vice president of wholesale lending. In 2017, after years of plummeting volumes, the company, led by CEO Dmitry Godin, decided to shutter its business, only to relaunch in 2020.

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