Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Industry-leading reverse mortgage lender Finance of America (FOA) on Tuesday announced updates and new details for a previously announced exchange offer , which would swap current investor bonds due in 2025 with new bonds due one to four years later. In late July, FOA also posted an infomercial featuring Selleck to its YouTube channel.

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Inman

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The mortgage lending giant's board of directors has been expanded from seven members to eight to accommodate the move. Krishna's term will expire at the company's 2026 annual meeting.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

In addition, Mr. Cooper is assuming $500 million in outstanding Home Point 5% senior notes due in February 2026, per the deal announced in May. Cooper’s agreement to acquire Home Point Capital, which also includes the payment of $324 million in cash. Heisman Merger Sub , a subsidiary of Mr. Cooper Group, is paying $2.33

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2023

In the first quarter, Home Point’s origination and servicing businesses were in the red amid declining production volumes and a negative change in the fair value of its mortgage servicing rights (MSR). The company failed to adjust to a landscape of high mortgage rates, low inventory levels and fierce competition. billion in Q4 2022.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

Mat Ishbia is optimistic about the mortgage market. The Pontiac, Michigan-based United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) CEO believes that 2022 and 2023 are equally challenging years, but the market will improve in 2024. Meanwhile, 2025 and 2026 will be off the charts. And 2025 and 2026 will be off the charts. mortgage lender.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2022

Much has been written about the decline in the numbers of active real estate appraisers creating a chokepoint in the mortgage process. in 2026 — compared with 17.5% For workers 75 and older, the participation rate in 2026 is projected to be 10.8%, compared with 4.7% According to a report by the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2023

loanDepot announced Monday it will promptly increase the size of its board from eight to nine members to accommodate Ozonian, who has been the CEO of the Williston Financial Group since 2017, and his term will last from 2023 to 2026. Like its peers, California-based loanDepot has been challenged by the surging mortgage rates landscape.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Fed now predicts that inflation will not come down to their 2% target until sometime in 2026. Last week, Freddie Mac reported the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) at its lowest point since February 2023 , when they averaged 6.20%. A year ago at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged nearly a full percentage point higher at 7.18%.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2021

The changes to the corporate tax rate were “permanent,” while the changes to the individual provisions were limited to 10 years and are scheduled to snap back to their prior levels in 2026. While each of these items have potentially important impacts on the housing and mortgage markets, I am going to focus on just a few.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Amid a shrinking market, Vision 2025 was extended into 2026 and beyond, Martell said. And not just adding tons of people — that is the traditional model in mortgages. lender in 2022 to 13th in the first half of 2023, per Inside Mortgage Finance estimates. We’ve extended that to 2026 or so.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

The biggest nonbank mortgage lenders in America saw improved performance in both origination and servicing segments in the second quarter, capitalizing on the continued mortgage pullback from banks. As we’ve reported, that trend looks sticky, which could help change the fortunes of top independent mortgage banks sooner than expected.

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Appraiserblogs

JANUARY 31, 2024

My concern at this point is ‘training’ materials will be available in Q4 2024, but actual implementation of the ‘new reporting process’ won’t begin until Q3 2025 with limited production, into 2026. Note that in the future “form numbers” won’t be used.

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Will Springer Realtor

JANUARY 9, 2024

There is little doubt the inventory shortage will continue through 2024 – as mortgage rates remain too high for many consumers – and that means great pressure to push prices higher. Mortgage Rates That holiday present from the Federal Reserve? interest on its interbank – or Federal funds – lending rate. But by how much?

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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

To see the timeline (from 2018 to 2026) PDF, Click Here Too large to include in this newsletter. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on forecasts for economic factors, SFR zoning and more apartments, appraising and rhetoric, opinion, or anecdotal theories, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

My info below is a limited high-level summary for the new UAD and URAR of what was presented, and what the appraiser community can expect to see, from now into 2026. FHA, VA and USDA will be incorporating this new process for their residential lending Reports in roughly the same time frame as will happen with GSE Reports.

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 19, 2024

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, forms to reports modernization, AMCs, earthquake risk, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. == == Rare Coastal Contemporary Manchester, MA, for $9M Excerpts: 5 bedroom, 4.5 Private Money Lending – fast turn times, high fees.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

. “The rule maintains a focus on evaluating bank performance in areas where banks have deposit-taking facilities, but also enables evaluation of retail lending and community development activities outside of branch networks,” Michael S. Barrs, Fed vice chair for supervision, said in a statement.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized a rule mandated by Congress that applies existing residential mortgage protections to Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loans. Because of concerns about subprime-style lending that puts homeowners at risk of losing their home, Congress required the CFPB to enhance protections.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Wednesday laid out three broad strategic goals for 2022 to 2026: safety and soundness, equitable access to affordable and sustainable housing, and responsibly managing FHFA’s infrastructure. But the status of the agency’s efforts to accomplish that goal is less clear.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Housing attainability Housing affordability challenges are certainly not new and not surprising, especially in an environment that has seen home values increase rapidly in recent years in tandem with rising mortgage rates. Loan maturities and debt repricing At the end of 2026, an estimated $2.5 DellaPelle posited. DellaPelle asked.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

It also highlighted the importance of consumer protection in the appraisal process, transparency in mortgage lending, and the need to maintain appraiser independence. Mortgage lending is very, very cyclical. How do servicers model risk and pass this quantitative information onto mortgage servicing rights (MSR) values?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As an owner of a mortgage company and a 20-year housing veteran, I can tell you there is no shortage of people who want to buy just as there is no shortage of builders who want to build. This would be a temporary solution, from Q2 2025 to Q4 2026. Currently, there is very little “yield” on mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Mortgage professionals can expect a transformed regulatory environment for the financial sector as Donald Trump returns to the White House in January. Supreme Court , which gave him more confidence in pursuing the bureau’s crusade against junk fees , appraisal bias and fair lending violations — all controversial topics in the industry. “In

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