Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

From streamlining title verification to enabling collaborative loan processing and automating key title production tasks, these leaders are helping shape a faster, smarter, and more efficient housing market. Historically, these processes involved multiple manual steps and handoffs, resulting in delays and higher costs.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Dara Default offers decisioning, automated workflows, collections, loss mitigation, claims, foreclosure and bankruptcy and an attorney network. Dara Movement and Dara Data are not yet on the market but in a “road map” stage, Sagent confirmed. And Dara Core is nearing beta completion. and planning for version 1.5,

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

The company says it has provided over $3 billion in mortgage loans since its founding. (It HousingWire tracked 37 mergers, acquisitions, exits and bankruptcies involving originators, servicers, tech platforms, and appraisal and valuation companies in 2024. Bank7 is expanding its mortgage reach in Oklahoma.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

After informing the prospect that he would be able to do the loan, the client decided to move forward with Rodriguez as his originator. This guy was in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy at the time, was behind on credit cards and on his mortgage, and was on the verge of losing his house. Reverse is all I’ve been doing since then.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Bankrupt retail lender AmeriFirst Financial is seeking approval for a private sale of loans from a Delaware bankruptcy judge to pay off two warehouse lenders and fund restructuring costs. If approved, AmeriFirst’s retail and commercial loans worth more than $5 million will be sold to a non-QM lender Oaktree Funding Corp.,

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Bank of America recently announced a loan for lower-income households that doesn’t require homebuyers to come up with a downpayment or closing costs, and doesn’t base the loan on a minimum FICO score. Are we really doing those types of loans and promoting homeownership again without understanding the risks?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Federal student loan payments resuming on Oct. 1 will negatively affect consumer loan asset quality, including credit card, auto and, to a lesser extent, residential mortgages. 1, repayments are due to restart on Department of Education (DOE) federal student loans (Direct Student Loans), which began accruing interest again on Sept.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Executive leaders there pointed to the performance of the company’s proprietary loan products and trends in the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) space as favorable. While Ellington’s results were softer in comparison , company leaders remain bullish on profitability prospects for Longbridge and the wider industry.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

The loan repurchase trend that began to sting many mortgage originators in 2022 appears to finally be winding down, according to a recent report by Sterling Point Advisors and Augment Analytics. We’re seeing a downward trend in total [loans] repurchased [on a dollar basis], and that’s true for both Fannie and Freddie,” Ludden said. . …

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In the world of mortgage-financing, there exists a product line defined by what it is not — non-qualified mortgage (non-QM), non-prime, non-agency or an alternative-documentation loan. Angel Oak, through its affiliates, both originates and securitizes non-QM loans. We just see tremendous opportunity.”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Garth Graham, senior partner and manager of merger and acquisition activities for the Stratmor Group , said many of the layoffs in the IMB industry so far have involved employees working in support positions, with loan officer jobs being the last to be jettisoned. .” Charting the loan officer exit.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

What happened post-2010 is that exotic loan debt structures that don’t provide long-term fixed debt products left the system. As you can see below, when you lend to the capacity to own the debt, you should never see a rise in foreclosures or bankruptcies unless a job loss recession happens on a massive scale.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2021

As you probably know by now, the Federal Housing and Finance Agency has limited GSEs to a 7% cap on loan purchases for second home and investment properties. This means that lenders who sell these types of loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be subject to restrictions if their volume exceeds 7%. How does this impact originators?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Angel Oak Home Loans will exit its retail distribution channel following a sale of its retail offices to an unknown lender and servicer. The transaction includes an acquisition of Angel Oak Home Loans’ brick-and-mortar retail offices and associated salesforce.”. Of the total volume, conventional loans accounted for 85.7%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2022

For more than 50 years, the Black Knight MSP loan servicing system has been helping power servicing operations from loan boarding, payment processing and escrow administration to investor reporting, compliance management, default processing and more. In fact, 42% of MSP clients service fewer than 50,000 loans.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

As a follow-up, HousingWire sat down with Peter Richter, co-founder and president at Flueid, to discuss why mortgage lenders should be asking for a quick, data-driven title check at loan application, rather than an instant title commitment, to understand and verify what’s going on with a property and consumer from the start.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

The standard of living of the average American has to decline, he said. I don’t think you can escape that. These were the words of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker as he testified before Congress in October 1979. Inflation was 13%. Volckers predecessors, Arthur Burns and William Miller, had failed to control prices. Thatwasnt a one-off.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

One of the unsung heroes of the most prolonged economic and job expansion ever recorded in history was the passing of the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act and the 2010 qualified mortgage rule under Dodd-Frank. As we can see below, the bankruptcy levels were extremely high before the bankruptcy law was passed in 2005.

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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

JULY 28, 2023

It follows a request from the shuttered lender to halt the agreement due to an involuntary bankruptcy petition filed by three creditors. New Wave Lending Group , JMJ Financial Group and EF Mortgage filed on July 5 an involuntary petition against Sprout under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code in a New York court, claiming the lender owes $1.3

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Monica Williams, a former loan account manager in Live Well’s Richmond, Va. headquarters, initially filed the suit days after Live Well had halted funding for new loans and subsequently ceased operations entirely. The class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. In a 92-minute court hearing held on Jan.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

8 was a nearly 400-page appendix of agreement terms, program information and correspondence between Ginnie Mae, TCB and leaders at Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF), the former lender at the center of the dispute that filed for bankruptcy in late 2022. The first filing made on Aug.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

It follows the the lender’s recent acquisition of Computershare Mortgage Services and its affiliate Specialized Loan Servicing (SLS). In February 2024, the company restructured Newrez’s distributed retail mortgage business, resulting in cuts to regional and divisional managers along with reductions in loan officer compensation.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Meanwhile, Michael Strauss , its only loan officer, now has an inactive status on his license, according to the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR). While the decision was under appeal, Strauss was brokering loans. 3, indicating a voluntary surrender. 3, indicating a voluntary surrender.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

Reverse mortgage servicing company Celink is seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that it had added unlawful servicing fees to reverse mortgage loans alongside now-bankrupt lender Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF). In response to the recent recommendation by a magistrate judge against the dismissal of Dancy-Wilkins v.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

Ginnie Mae: loans are our ‘absolute property’ In a filing to the court submitted on Wednesday, Ginnie Mae — using its official acronym “GNMA” in court filings — said that TCB cannot challenge the authority the company maintains over the reverse mortgage securities program. Ginnie Mae is seeking dismissal of the complaint in its entirety.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

It will enable the acquisition of loans from an HMBS pool above the existing 98% maximum claim amount (MCA) requirement, according to an initial announcement by Ginnie Mae. on Wednesday. The news was first reported by Inside Mortgage Finance. The announcement was reportedly met with applause from attendees.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2024

New filings The filing, posted to the court docket on Friday morning, shows the immediate bankruptcy concern of leaders at RMF and the lack of willingness from other reverse mortgage industry participants to assume control of the full loan portfolio. Ginnie Mae ultimately seized the RMF servicing portfolio on or about Dec.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Read on to learn more about Duncan’s views on the housing market, loan performance and affordability challenges homebuyers face. With the majority of Fed officials expecting another rate hike by year-end, Duncan predicts a 50/50 chance of that happening, depending on how resilient the economy is against the Fed’s monetary policy.

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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. First, we must define what we mean by recession. Our general economy is not yet in a recession, but housing has been in one since the summer. Sales fall. Housing demand has fallen noticeably this year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The company hopes to reach its goal by growing organically with more loan officers under a dozen business development managers. There were also a few cases of bankruptcy. HousingWire tracked 62 mergers, acquisitions, exits and bankruptcies covered by the newsroom in 2023. bankruptcies. exits and 3.2%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2022

A closer look at WMC’s books, however, shows that as of June 30 its residential whole loan portfolio, nearly all of which is comprised of non-QM loans, was underwater by some $44 million. That’s based on a comparison of the principal balance of the loans on the books and their fair market value as reported by the REIT as of that date.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Sagent’s solutions include Loanserv, a servicing system of record powering collections, accounting, escrows, investor management and customer care; Tempo, a default management system of record powering loss mitigation, foreclosure and bankruptcy; and Account Connect, a customer care and retention system. billion in volume, an increase of 19.9%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2023

appointed Michelle DeHart as the vice president of loan operations, escrow, the company announced on Tuesday. Cenlar FSB, the second-largest mortgage servicer and largest sub-servicer in the U.S., I am excited to be part of the Cenlar team,” DeHart said. “My

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

In a refinancing, homeowners obtain a new loan and lenders require a new title search and a title insurance policy on that loan to protect their investment. Discounts also may be available if using the same lender that issued the original loan. Why is a title search necessary for refinancing?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

But when every loan matters, like the market we find ourselves in today, it makes a lot of sense to take a closer look at the borrower’s credit score. It’s why regulators are spending so much time considering changes and why more originators are stepping up to help their loan applicants increase their scores. Why is this important now?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

For a homeowner in need of extra cash, somewhere between $300 to $5,000, a company will give them the cash they need without a loan. Kentucky is on the brink of ending exclusive real estate listing contracts. A home often is a consumer’s largest investment, and the best way to support the certainty of land ownership is through public policy.

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