Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The average 30-year-fixed mortgage rate continues to trend upwards, rising by five basis points to 3.14% for the week ending Oct. Mortgage rates are also rising, but purchase demand remains firm, showing that latent purchase demand exists among consumers,” he added. Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

According to Todman, the industry has been asking for years for HUD to be helpful on assumable mortgages, which “is a complex transaction that she has “come to understand that sometimes the juice is not worth the squeeze.” ” There was a “hue and cry,” Todman said. .

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

For better or worse, trends in the mortgage industry tend to mirror corresponding trends in the overall real estate market. In addition, a vast majority of people spent more time at home in 2020 than ever before in modern history. In turn, mortgage companies need to get with the times, implement technology and improve efficiency.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2021

According to the report, in March 2021, consumers submitted more mortgage complaints to the CFPB than in any month since April 2018. Consumers also reported long delays in having their loan modified so that they could resume payments on the mortgage. As we warned mortgage servicers last month, unprepared is unacceptable.”.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

This is an excerpt of a HousingWire Research report titled: What Everyone Needs to Know about Mortgage Rate Lock-in, by Altos President Mike Simonsen. housing market saw dramatic changes in affordability as mortgage rates skyrocketed 500 basis points. million in January 2021 (when mortgage rates were 2.7%) fell to 3.9

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. Justin Woodward has experienced the best and the worst of the mortgage industry in only 18 months. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

The attorney general of Michigan has re-released a consumer alert about the reverse mortgage product category during financial literacy month. A reverse mortgage is a type of home equity loan extended, in most cases, to those who are 62 years of age or older,” the announcement stated.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

Despite advances in technology, the mortgage industry still lacks efficiency. Mortgage executives are aware of a problem: despite billions of dollars in technology investments , the mortgage industry still largely looks like it did two decades ago. Bank Home Mortgage. But it’s a challenge.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The shift from a refinance boom to a purchase market will leave some mortgage lenders and loan officers with only two options: “Consolidate or exit the business,” according to ​​Mary Ann McGarry, Guild Mortgage’s chief executive officer. “Think of 2020 and 2021.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2024

The lawsuit stems from a 2022 Bloomberg investigation that found Wells Fargo was the only large bank to deny more Black applicants than it accepted in 2020 during the refinancing boom. The systems merely indicate whether an applicant’s mortgage would be eligible for purchase by Fannie or Freddie.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2021

Rocket Companies , parent of Rocket Mortgage , has its eyes on the solar energy industry, announcing this week that it will enter the green energy game by 2022. gigawatts (GWdc) of solar capacity in 2020, a joint study released earlier this year by the Solar Energy Industries Association and Wood Mackenzie said. thus far and counting.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2024

Mortgage rate lock-in happens because even small changes in mortgage rates can make a big difference in costs. in April 2024 — with a 10% down payment, a typical mortgage would be approximately $350,000. For every 50 basis point change in mortgage rates, the monthly payment for this house would change by $112.In

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

For the first time since March 2020, the national mortgage delinquency rate fell below 6% to 5.9% While modest mortgage delinquency improvements have occurred for several months, loans considered seriously delinquent are still five times that of pre-pandemic levels. in January, according to data from Black Knight on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Photo credit: AJ Canaria Reverse mortgages became an unexpectedly prominent topic during certain parts of The Gathering by HousingWire , held earlier this week in Scottsdale, Arizona. Reverse mortgages for purchase are taking up more conversation on the reverse side of the business recently.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

forbearance rate measuring the share of mortgages with suspended payments experienced a 20 basis points improvement last week after it fell to 5.47% from 5.67% the week prior , according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. million homeowners still in mortgage forbearance plans. Presented by: TMS. In fact, an estimated 76.4%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

When Curtis Mangus of Premier Mortgage Resources in Meridian, Idaho looked into pivoting into reverse after serving decades in the traditional mortgage business, he asked his managing partner at the lender about its reverse mortgage department. You are the reverse mortgage department,” he said. The partner smiled. “

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2023

a mortgage artificial intelligence firm focused on automated mortgage underwriting decisions, has conducted layoffs as lenders rush to cut costs. Candor is executing a change in strategy to address the ever-changing mortgage market and to pivot along with client operations,” Tom Showalter, CEO of Candor , said in an e-mailed response.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2021

Fannie Mae continues to reap the rewards of low mortgage rates as it posted a net income of $7.2 In March 2020, both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac hit pause on credit risk transfers, which shift a portion of the risk of credit losses on the mortgages they insure onto investors. billion, of Fannie Mae’s $373.3

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

Having built and led mortgage operations for nearly three decades, planning for the future stands out amongst the most challenging components a leader faces. Today’s consumer looks a lot like pre-pandemic First, how prepared are mortgage servicers for the next hardship cycle? Our history would indicate yes.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

We finally got mortgage rates to rise, and for people like me who have been concerned about how unhealthy the housing market was last year — and it got a lot worse this year — it’s a blessing that was much needed. million or higher during 2020-2024. The demographic bump in 2020-2024 is giving us a push in demand. percent (±11.9

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

new jobs hiring, housing jobs, recruiting for mortgage industry. Based on the headlines, one might assume the mortgage business is a complete disaster. Some mortgage companies will merge to stay afloat, and many others will go under. Recruiting battles for LOs remain fierce, mortgage executives and LOs told HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

It’s a tough time for mortgage lenders. A rapid rise in mortgage rates and a big drop in origination volume has led to thousands of industry job losses over the last six months. By some estimates, origination volume will fall in 2022 to about $2 trillion, about half the volume from the record-breaking years of 2021 and 2020.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Weaker demand from the local community developers buying at auction suggests continued weakness in the retail housing market into early 2025 given that those local community developers are anticipating retail market conditions about six months into the future,” Daren Blomquist, vice president of market economics at Auction.com, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This growth in demand is consistent with what I have been saying for many years – that if interest rates stayed low, good housing demographics in the years 2020 to 2024 would substantially drive up demand for housing, including new home sales, which will be the only period where we would start a year at 1.5 We haven’t started a year yet at 1.5

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

Richelle Hopkins of Mutual of Omaha Mortgage has been a reverse mortgage professional for 20 years, moving to Arizona in 2006. At a recent WIFS Phoenix event, Hopkins was able to bring a discussion about reverse mortgages to attendees and sat down with HousingWire ’s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD) to share details about the experience.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Applicants hoping to get a mortgage job in 2024. After cutting to the bone over the past three years, several large mortgage lenders are beginning to ramp up hiring. The data includes employees at parent companies and subsidiaries, in mortgage lending, servicing and other activities.) Image created by AI in Midjourney.)

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The federal government’s top regulators announced Wednesday that they are collectively resuming mortgage servicing supervisory and enforcement practices in full, ending certain flexibilities it offered mortgage servicers at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

That core mission is to provide the infrastructure to support government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in issuing mortgage-backed securities. In early 2020, FHFA explored expanding the role of CSS to serve a broader market,” FHFA stated in a press release announcing Feldman’s appointment as chair. “In

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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

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

JANUARY 5, 2021

In a statement confirming the deal Tuesday afternoon, Guaranteed Rate said the acquisition of Stearns would enable a boost in retail loan originations and further scale its JV platform, while also developing “new multichannel capabilities.” This is a breaking news story. Check back for more updates.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Mortgage giant Fannie Mae extended its relaxed lending and appraisal standards put in place due to COVID-19 into the new year. 31, 2020, however Fannie Mae is now pushing that back to at least Jan. 31, 2020,” Fannie Mae said in a letter to lenders. “We 31, 2020,” Fannie Mae said in a letter to lenders. 31, 2021. “We

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Mortgage rates have pulled back in recent weeks giving consumers and loan originators some breathing room, but headwinds in the industry are far from over. Piper Sandler expects a drop in prepayment speeds to continue despite the near-term dip in mortgage rates, because very few borrowers have mortgage rates above current levels.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

loanDepot CEO Frank Martell expects the current mortgage market cycle to be “longer and tougher than anybody expected.” That’s kind of evaporated,” Martell said on Tuesday morning in a session during The Gathering , HousingWire’s real estate and mortgage conference held in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Homebuilder confidence continued to drop in November, hitting its lowest level since June 2012, with the exception of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

The state of Montana may not be a key source of business for the reverse mortgage industry, but that doesn’t negate the reality that seniors who reside there might find the product useful for reaching some kind of financial goal. He joined the mortgage industry in 1990 and transitioned to the reverse channel in 2002.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Freedom Mortgage were handed minor setbacks by the presiding and magistrate judges, respectively, in a case that the regulator brought in widespread violations in its 2020 submission of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data. The original case was filed in the U.S.

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