Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

Lenders point to cost-cutting as their top business priority amid the mortgage industry facing a number of challenges – including high home prices , tight inventory of homes available for sale and interest rate hikes. We are] looking at technology that will help streamline and reduce appraisal costs for the borrower.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

When mortgage rates rose and demand for lower-priced mortgages grew, Kirby saw opportunities in the wholesale lending channel. Nothing in the mortgage industry is easy right now (…) With the broker model, you’ve got so many outlets to send these loans to that it’s really easy to find a home for most borrowers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Insellerate said it created the solution to drive origination volumes in the face of a “constantly changing mortgage market” that is riddled with rising interest rates and low inventory. The new product is fully integrated into loan origination systems, like ICE Technology’s Encompass and MeridianLink.

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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. in the broker channel.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2022

In an effort to counter margin compression and satisfy a new generation of homebuyers, lenders are looking to offer loan options that better fit the average borrower. HousingWire recently spoke with John Keratsis, President and CEO of Deephaven Mortgage, about the potential benefits of non-QM lending in today’s tight housing market.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

What does Ishbia think about surging mortgage rates , lack of housing inventory and monetary and policy pressures ? Nunes: Surging mortgage rates is one challenge, but inventory is another. So, people who say inventory and rates and it’s bottom and it’s struggling, they just have a loser’s mentality.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

“It’s going to be competitive — thin margins, little business and LOs getting out of the industry,” Dave Krichmar, banker at Legend Lending Corporation, said of the mortgage industry in 2023. It’s positive news for an industry that has recently dealt with a lackluster amount of inventory.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“At the end of the day if mortgage rates come down, I don’t just think that’s gonna solve the inventory problem right away,” said Ben Cohen, managing director at Guaranteed Rate. But a combination of factors – high home prices , lack of inventory , elevated rates — temper expectations for even a moderately strong year.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

With a deadly combination of low housing inventory, reduction in refis and surging mortgage rates, consolidation in mortgage tech is expected. Layoffs at mortgage tech companies appear inevitable, along with other cost-saving measures, including diminished investments in technology. Of the $387.2

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A top-tier borrower with a 780 FICO score and a 25-30% down payment for a single-family vanilla 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was quoted 6.875% on Thursday, said Larry Steinway, senior vice president of mortgage lending and branch manager of Revolution Mortgage. “We We are definitely seeing an uptick in demand. in 2024 before declining to 6.9%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This implies easing inflation next year, and mortgage rates near 6% would help affordability issues caused by two things: The inflation fight has fueled the mortgage rate spike Low inventory and a steady job market have put a floor on home prices The good news is that GSEs remain committed to loan approval guidelines that help in these tough cycles.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

The first category is real estate credit, which covers most establishments focused on lending with real estate as collateral. The second category is mortgage and non-mortgage brokers, which includes establishments that facilitate lending by bringing borrowers and lenders together.

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Today, while there still remains some stickiness to the QC revision process, a recent survey completed by The STRATMOR Group commissioned by appraisal management technology company Reggora, indicates 25% of appraisal reports require some form of revision. Inventory levels have an impact on property valuation, at least in the short term.

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