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Maverix Advisory Group adds Kevin Van Eck as principal

Housing Wire

Van Eck will assume the role of principal after a 16-year tenure at @properties. Maverix Advisory Group has added industry veteran Kevin Van Eck to its leadership roster. He served in multiple positions there, most recently as president of affiliate strategy at Christies International Real Estate, which was acquired by @properties in 2021.

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Residency requirements top HUD OIG’s list of open reverse mortgage issues

Housing Wire

However, three of the four open HECM-related issues according to the HUD OIG are related to the HECM programs principal residency requirements, which state that a HECM borrower must remain in the home as their primary residence. Three of them, however, are largely centered on the same issue.

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How Pennymac is navigating the double-edged sword of lower rates

Housing Wire

In total, loan acquisitions and originations had an unpaid principal balance (UPB) of $31.7 At the same time, our servicing portfolio — now near $650 billion in unpaid principal balance and nearly 2.6 million in Q2 2024 and $25.2 million in Q3 2023. This was a reflection of more volume rather than higher margins. As of Sept.

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The biggest challenge for the reverse industry in 2024? Mortgage rates

Housing Wire

Reverse mortgage business and mortgage business generally is not where people want it to be. That was a repeated idea shared by a group of reverse mortgage professionals when asked to assess what they see as the biggest industry challenges of the year. Rates re-emerged as a challenge and continue to be as the year winds down to a close.

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Navigating movement in the mortgage industry series: Post-closing matters are important too

Housing Wire

Introduction As part of our ongoing discussion on the concept of movement in the mortgage industry, it is readily apparent that the failure of mortgage companies to pivot or tweak their business models to satisfy changing market and other conditions has resulted in consolidation based on liquidity, buyback, financial and other concerns.

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Wade Pfau: how market volatility could renew reverse mortgage discussions

Housing Wire

In this kind of interest rate environment, you’re looking at probably around 40% of the home value, up to the lending limit as an initial line of credit principal limit, he said. So that was the original justification for the [Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM )] portfolio coordination strategy.

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Maverix Advisory Group appoints York Baur as founding board member

Housing Wire

In February, Maverix Advisory Group added industry veteran Kevin Van Eck to its leadership roster, appointing him to the role of principal after a 16-year tenure at @properties. Baur, the former CEO of MoxiWorks , helped to scale that platform to a point that it now supports more than 800 brokerages and 400,000 agents across North America.

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