Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2021

Houston-based nonbank mortgage lender Cornerstone Home Lending is buying Roscoe State Bank , a traditional depository bank headquartered in Roscoe, Texas. The merged organization is to be known as Cornerstone Capital Bank, and the mortgage division will continue to be known as Cornerstone Home Lending. Presented by: Sutherland.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

For many of us, the start of a new year is usually synonymous with a renewed sense of professional self, focusing on new goals, new prospects for the year and, of course, the excitement for the upcoming spring real estate market. 2020 proved that we all need to work to find new ways to generate business.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2021

The mortgage market had a stunning year in 2020, with closed-end originations increasing by 65.2% But some of the industry’s same problems remained in 2020. million in 2020. million in 2020. in 2020, while the share for Hispanic borrowers was 9.1% in 2020 compared to 8.9% in 2020, from 1.04

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

California-based personal finance company NerdWallet has struck a deal to acquire brokerage firm Next Door Lending. I have really enjoyed getting to know Next Door Lending’s principals, Doug [Liska] and Jonathon, through this process,” Chen said. He is a relative newcomer, joining the broker channel in 2020.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The financing arrangement was struck on June 3, 2020 with the maximum aggregate borrowing authority totaling $300 million, according to Home Point’s 8-K filing disclosed on Tuesday. The financing arrangement was also dated June 3, 2020. The post Homepoint shrinks its lending capacity appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Most took advantage of 3% interest rates to lower monthly payments; cash-out lending comprised just 3 out of 10 refi originations in the second quarter, Black Knight found. Purchase locks in Q3 2020 have already made up for the losses of a COVID-impacted Q2 – and then some – based upon normal seasonal expectations,” said Graboske. “In

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

ECOA prohibits reverse redlining — targeting minority communities for predatory lending — but Congress amended the statute in 1976 to allow for special purpose credit programs. It could be a sustainable lending product for a community where a lender has had poor penetration. A special purpose credit program can take many forms.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2021

During the previous economic expansion from 2008 to 2019, the housing market was subject to the constant refrain of build more homes. make corrections to the misguided lending standards) to have a stable, growing housing market once again — and this took time. million until 2020-2024. Here is why. Become a member today.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. A seasoned retail and commercial banking salesman in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 39-year-old Woodward joined Interfirst Mortgage as a loan officer in October 2020 after a recommendation from an old college friend. trillion in 2020 and then $4.4

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2022

In this hot housing market, Michigan-based wholesale lender Homepoint understands the key to originating more home loans is ensuring more sellers accept offers made by its buyers. Planet Home Lending entered into a $2.5 The post Homepoint lends homebuyers the power of all-cash offers appeared first on HousingWire.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 29, 2024

The recovery occurred in the midst of a robust springtime housing market and falling mortgage rates following several months of rising rates. Key Findings: Improvements in all main residential loan categories—particularly for home purchase—led to an increase in total lending. Quarterly purchase-loan activity increased 32.7%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I have been part of the mortgage banking industry since 1983 — 39 years to date through different housing markets. In many ways it was similar to today, with one exception: When I started, I hadn’t been spoiled by a housing market like the one in 2020 and 2021. The housing market won’t be like this forever.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Like the vast majority of the country, the city’s housing market has been stymied by high mortgage rates, low inventory and mismatched expectations between buyers and sellers. Buyers think it’s a buyer’s market. Sellers think it’s a seller’s market. 25 statewide in 2023 transaction volume.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As we close out 2022, it’s time to reflect on a historic year for the housing market, which was even crazier than the COVID-19 year of 2020. It is crazy to think we are seeing these four things happen in the housing market considering that even in March of this year we were seeing bidding wars accelerate before mortgage rates rose.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

In time, markets always find balance and balance is a good thing. One of the reasons that I moved into the “team higher mortgage rate” camp is that what I saw in January, February, and March of this year was so unhealthy that I labeled the housing market savagely unhealthy. Inventory collapsed in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2021

When I wrote the America Is Back economic model on April 7, 2020, the bond market was already signaling that the economy and housing would be ok. In addition to the bond market yield action, responsible lending post-2010 gave me confidence that forbearance was not going to be the negative issue that many had hoped for.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

Austin, Texas might be the hottest housing market in the country. 1 city in population growth for the last eight years and it was the hottest job market in 2019 and 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal. It is just a super tight housing market. Austin has ranked as the No. In fact, Austin has just about 1.2

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The average mortgage rate for a 30-year fixed loan remained unchanged last week from the week prior at 2.73%, according to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. Recent data from mortgage software firm LBA Ware revealed that total funded loan volume by LOs in Q4 2020 increased 106% from the fourth quarter of 2019.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2022

Homeownership continues to swerve into unaffordable territory, with median-priced single-family homes becoming less affordable in three-quarters of the nation’s market, a report published by ATTOM Data Solutions last week said. In comparison, the fourth quarter of 2020 saw ownership costs at 21.5%. Presented by: Equifax.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2021

Austin is still the nation’s hottest housing market, as tech workers continue to flock to the Lone Star State’s capital. Homes are staying on the market an average of 24 days, Redfin reported. The jumbo market for brokers is back in a huge way.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

After pushing back its initial public offering a week, loanDepot looks poised to tap the public markets at a $6.2 Its founder and CEO Anthony Hsieh in September even compared loanDepot to Rocket Companies , which went public in August at a market cap of roughly $36 billion. ”We The momentum for non-bank lending is here to stay.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. First, mortgage lending standards have remained high after the last bubble. The last time we saw prices decline, the combination of declining prices and bad mortgages forced inventory onto the market. There will be two key differences between 2023 and 2010.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

I hear a lot of chatter about a boom in cash-out refinances, and the presumption seems to be that this is destined to wreak havoc on the housing market and the economy at some point. First, the refinance boom’s main driver in the 2000s was unhealthy because of the marketplace’s speculative unhealthy lending standards.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s not forget the substantial fiscal and monetary policy that provided extraordinary levels of support for households, businesses, and markets here and abroad. The latest news regarding the Omicron variant has many cautious about whether the recovery that began in the second half of 2020 and blossomed in 2021 can continue.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Of those issuers already compliant with RBCR, many have ample equity capital to support the acquisition of MSRs that may come on the market.” According to John Bosley, president of mortgage lending at Planet Home Lending , the idea that 95% of firms will qualify for the new risk-based capital rule is a “little bit disingenuous.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Department of Justice (DOJ) over the regulators’ allegations of mortgage lending discrimination in majority-Black neighborhoods of the Birmingham, Alabama , metro area. Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. has agreed to settle with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the U.S million civil penalty. Garland added.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The company has cut hundreds of jobs across layoffs in March , May , July and October , underscoring the immense challenges of the current mortgage market. So far this year, the correspondent channel has gained market share on the two other channels, increasing from 23.4% Bank Home Mortgage and Planet Home Lending.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A decline in the MCAI indicates that lending standards are tightening, while increases in the index are indicative of loosening credit. What happens when borrowers have more control of the lending process? FormFree is launching a blockchain-based exchange for consumers to take control of the mortgage lending process.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Amid the uncertain current environment, here are six key indicators we should look to for an accurate assessment of market conditions: Federal funds rate : While the current fed funds rate of 3.25% seems high, it also stood at more than 2% from October 2018 to September 2019. seen in July. For reference, the unemployment rate was 3.4%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2021

Lenders may have one last quarter to ride the market’s massive refi wave after Monday data from Black Knight’s Mortgage Monitor Report revealed that despite rising interest rates, Q1 2021 refinance lending volumes are poised to remain near last quarter’s meteoric high. trillion in mortgages were originated in 2020, with $2.8

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2022

Publicly traded mortgage tech company Blend Labs isn’t changing its strategy to survive a shrinking mortgage market, even though a drop in originations is sapping its revenue stream and forcing it to trim its workforce. Blend claims it grew its mortgage market share from 10% in 2020 to 15% in 2021. on April 20.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

After three weeks of unchanged rates, the average mortgage rate for a 30-year fixed loan jumped 8 basis points to 2.81%, reaching its highest point since mid-November, according to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. However, the uptrend in the bond market since the lows of August 2020 is intact.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2023

The NAR data going back decades shows how difficult it has been to get back to anything normal on the active listing side since 2020. Even though the labor market is currently showing signs of getting softer , there is no job-loss recession yet. Mortgage rates in a regular market should be 5.25% today but are at 6.5%.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2021

As shown there, in fiscal year 2020, the federal government spent $6.6 In FY 2020, the infographic shows that of those $3.4 of GDP in FY 2020. In FY 2020, both individual and corporate taxes declined as a share of GDP due to the recession. For those looking to quickly understand the current state of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2022

June saw both record-low home price appreciation and the largest single-month increase of for-sale inventory in 12 years, resulting in a cool down in the housing market. And the housing market would likely slow further in the coming months if mortgage rates remain persistently high. million in June from $1.56 million in April.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

Top mortgage lending software and analytics provider Black Knight is exploring a sale following takeover interest from several private equity firms, according to a report from Bloomberg. But on the news of a potential sale, it surged 12% on Tuesday, closing the day with a market cap of $10.3 million in 2020.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Transactions in the fix and flip market have been booming in recent years, with more than 407,000 homes flipped in 2022, up 14% over 2021 and up 58% over 2020, according to a recent report by real estate data firm ATTOM. housing market.” How long that can continue is hard to say.”

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