Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2021

“Automated underwriting for agency [ Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ] products is definitely much easier because there’s a defined set of scenarios that you have to meet,” says Keith Lind, executive chairman and president of Acra Lending (a non-QM lender formerly known as Citadel Servicing ). And it is growing fast, he added. “We’re

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2022

Dubbed the “Homepoint Cash Compete,” the fintech platform provides home shoppers with the cash needed to compete with investors and other more attractive offers, according to the lender. 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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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. Mike Cagney, SoFi. billion across these deals.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2023

Mike Cagney’s Figure Technologies rolled out a wholesale lending platform that will give loan originators access to the company’s home equity line of credit (HELOC) offering. In terms of dollar volume, there was an estimated $251 billion in HELOC originations during all of 2022, up from $182 billion in 2021.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2022

Finance of America Companies on Wednesday told investors that it managed to increase in originations in 2021, but a more competitive landscape reduced margins and, consequently, the company’s net income. billion in 2021, up 9% compared to 2020, mainly due to reverse and commercial businesses. Finance of America funded $35.6

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Non-QM lending is poised for growth in 2021. HousingWire recently spoke with Mike Fierman, managing partner and co-CEO of Angel Oak, about the non-QM lending outlook for 2021 and how Angel Oak’s “originate to hold” model benefits originators. Now, many investors are once again returning to the non-QM space.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Investors provide capital necessary for many families to fulfill their aspirations of living in a house whether renting or owning. How can investors help with homeownership? Let’s switch gears and consider how investors help with home ownership. of all flipped homes in Q3 2021 went to FHA buyers. were built before 1980.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2024

Los Angeles -based Dunmor , a technology -enabled lender that specializes in loans for residential real estate investors , has added a pair of experienced executives in the business-purpose lending space. He previously managed a portfolio of business-purpose loans and nonqualified mortgages with a value of more than $2 billion.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

President of Residential Servicing and Correspondent Lending. Aslan Home Lending. VP, Investor Relations. Planet Home Lending. The post Introducing the 2021 HW Insiders appeared first on HousingWire. Chris Favilla. Head of Operations. Executive Vice President of Administration. Howard Hanna. David Sheeler.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2021

As we enter the second quarter of 2021, it’s time for the mortgage industry to reflect on the past 12 months and think about how to plan for the same period ahead. For those that have focused on purchase lending, they will see less of a drop in total volume. Low rates are often the sign of a poor economy.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with John Jeanmonod, Regional Vice President of Sales at Angel Oak, about non-QM lending and the outlook for the second half of 2022. Not in droves like in 2021, but the business is out there. Since we are the end investor, we do not have to seek third party approval to do a loan.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tech-focused real estate brokerage Radius , flush with $14 million in venture capital raised this past April, has launched a mortgage lending arm in California that it plans to roll out to additional markets sometime next year. million in 2021. Kasle said Radius brought in $2.2 Expansion will come in iterations, he said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

If you were to take an inventory of deals which came out, a majority of the deals have been investor [investment property] … deals, and the prime jumbo deals have been very far and few in between.”. We are starting to see some indication of a resurgence in investor-loan issuance backed by agency-eligible loans,” the MAXEX report states.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

HousingWire recently caught up with Steven Schwalb, managing partner of Angel Oak Lending, about the changes investor appetite has gone though for non-QM. HousingWire: What is the investor appetite for non-QM and how has that changed over the past few years? Do they need a pre-closing investor review? Of that volume, $6.2

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Chrissi Callaghan Rhea, co-founder of Mortgage Investors Group and member of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) board of directors, died on Nov. Rhea was a HousingWire Woman of Influence in 2021. 8, at the age of 73. My heart is heavy for her family and her colleagues.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2021

Historically low interest rates in 2020 led to an all-time high in mortgage lending for new loans, but with forbearance moratorium deadlines being extended, some lenders are getting nervous. Altisource’s expertise and proven experience enable us to offer economical due diligence solutions for HELOC lenders, servicers and investors.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

While a booming market kept brokers busy in 2021, the 2022 housing market has been underscored by rising interest rates, inflation and geopolitical turbulence. John Gibson: SVP, National Sales Director; Wholesale & Correspondent Lending. The housing market has undergone a significant transformation over the past two years.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Pacific Western Bank , the wholly owned subsidiary of PacWest Bancorp , announced Tuesday it had acquired Civic Financial Services , a private money lender that caters to real estate investors. Civic typically loans money to investors who need bridge loans, financing for flips, rentals or rehab projects.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

Ascent Developer Solutions , a private mortgage lending platform, announced its launch Friday in conjunction with an equity infusion from Elliott Investment Management. Founder and CEO Robert Wasmund has a deep background in the residential construction and bridge lending industry. now known as Rithm Capital.

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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 fintech 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

JUNE 18, 2021

of all home sales in the first quarter of 2021 were flips — or one in 37 transactions, the lowest level since 2000. “But the first quarter of 2021 certainly marked a notable downturn for the flipping industry, with the big drop in activity suggesting that investors may be worried that prices have simply gone up too high.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2022

A San Francisco real estate investor with political ties was found guilty of bank fraud and making false statements to Quicken Loans as part of a larger federal investigation targeting public corruption in the city. . The post Jury convicts San Francisco real estate investor for defrauding Quicken Loans appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Stone Point and Insight Partners are highly respected investors who recognize the value and potential of CoreLogic’s digital content, solutions and market-leading platforms that power the housing economy,” CoreLogic President and CEO Frank Martell said. “We Strategies lenders should adopt from direct to consumer lending. Sign up here.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

California-based Provident Funding Associates LLC is getting out of the Florida condo lending business , it told broker partners on Friday. Condos in Florida have to be next level,” said one retail lending executive. “We have an investor who won’t do any deals in Florida or near major bodies of water.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

500 million in Metaverse purchases in 2021 says that, yes, the demand is there. Lending is lending. Note that in 2021, the largest purchase of virtual real estate was a single transaction for $4.3 But we do live in a world of disclosures when lending money. The debate is likely to continue for years to come.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Rocket Companies, which went public in August and was valued at approximately $38 billion, disclosed to investors that it retains servicing rights on the vast majority of mortgages it originates in the U.S. That is the lowest total since 2015, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. The rest of this content is for HW+ members.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

HousingWire: We’ve seen multiple predictions of non-QM lending heating up in 2021. We saw and endured COVID force a pause on the business and had to quickly respond and adapt to continue to lend. Angel Oak made it happen thanks to our close connection with investors who trust our loans and lending standards.

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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. The lender and servicer, owned by the Blackstone Group’s Tactical Opportunities business, is slated to go public in the first half of 2021 through a special purpose acquisition company at a $1.9

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2021

While the non-QM market took a hit during the early part of the pandemic, these loans are making a comeback and are expected to continue to grow in 2021. HousingWire: What does the performance of non-QM in the first half of 2021 tell us about the future of non-QM lending? We can save the deal for our clients and the borrower.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending. “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

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Publicly traded lending software firm MeridianLink has acquired OpenClose , a fintech company that specializes in residential mortgage software solutions for banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders. In April, MeridianLink paid roughly $28 million to acquire StreetShares , which provides lending technology to banks and credit unions.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

Our first goal was to make mortgage lending easier and more accessible, but we’ve been intentional in recognizing that our technology can be used to facilitate so much more, including commercial lending, servicing, foreclosure and more,” Ligris said. Presented by: Sagent Lending Technologies.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

“I think non-QM could be another money-making product for all of these originators,” said Keith Lind, executive chairman and president at Acra Lending. When you’re dealing with investors, mistakes cannot happen.”. 1 it was underwritten correctly, and two it fits a credit box of an investor that’s willing to buy it,” Lind said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Perry joined Freddie Mac in 2011 to oversee the company’s fair lending program. The company said Nunnink, who brings nearly a decade of experience working with Freddie Mac’s Optigo network, will leverage her relationships with investors, lenders and borrowers to drive industry-wide outcomes. “At

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Redfin announced Tuesday layoffs of 121 employees as it shakes up its mortgage department, including purchasing a lending company. The acquisition is intended to enable Seattle-based Redfin to expand its loans products nationally, as it wants to be a one-stop-shop for brokerage and lending.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

The transaction is estimated to provide capital to support approximately $750 million in loan originations over the life of the deal and will help real estate investors revitalize aged homes across the country,” Ki avi said in announcing the deal. ” Kiavi ranked as the top short-term lender in the fix-and-flip space in 2021, with $2.7

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

Struggling digital mortgage lender Better.com is teaming up with secretive big data firm Palantir to create a proprietary loan platform that is says will enable Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and mortgage investors to make “richer and deeper data-driven mortgage capital allocation decisions.”. million profit during the same period in 2021.

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