Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2024

The nested equity level of U.S. Not being underwater is a plus — having enough equity to sell and cover the transaction cost is even more significant if you’re financially stressed and need to sell. Also, many homeowners count on their equity growth to help them with a down payment for their next home. We only have 1.8%

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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 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

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

MAY 30, 2024

Ginnie Mae is aiming to roll out plans for its new Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Securities (HMBS) product by the end of the year, according to acting president Sam Valverde, who spoke at the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) Eastern Regional Meeting in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2024

Another 365 complaints were related to home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), while only 74 complaints were attributed to reverse mortgages. The next largest share within that segment was related to borrowers expressing frustration in communicating with a company to fix an issue in either the management or servicing of a loan.

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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 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

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As a premier provider of innovative, high-performance software, data and analytics for mortgage and home equity lending and servicing, Black Knight is transforming the housing finance industry. The comprehensive MSP servicing system supports all areas of loan servicing for both first mortgages and home equity products.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

In the initial October complaint, TCB alleged that the government-owned company “extinguished, in return for no consideration, TCB’s first priority lien on tens of millions of dollars in collateral” stemming from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-sponsored Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Bankruptcies and foreclosures After 2010, the qualified mortgage laws came into play and all the exotic loan debt structures in the system, especially in the run-up in demand from 2002 to 2005, disappeared. Homeowners, on the other hand, are sitting pretty and are the envy of the world.

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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. For existing homeowners, that’s good news because it means equity accumulation. The servicing side of the business is doing very well because those loans are simply not going to prepay for a long time.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Ginnie Mae intends to develop a new reverse mortgage-backed security product enabling the acquisition of loans from an HMBS pool above the existing 98% maximum claim amount (MCA) requirement, according to a new announcement. HECM warrants special attention because of demographic trends, and the financial circumstances of older Americans.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2008, the rise of foreclosures and bankruptcy were waving red flags before the job-loss recession even happened. Today, it’s the complete opposite story: the 2005 bankruptcy reform laws and the 2010 Qualified Mortgage laws laid the foundation for the best housing credit profiles recorded in U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In some cases, the account holders asked to be removed and continued making their normal loan payments. . A major complaint from the plaintiffs highlighted the negative impact the forbearance had on their individual credit scores. Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

The Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program faces stability and viability challenges stemming from the 2022 collapse of a major industry lender and its extinguishment from the HECM-backed Securities (HMBS) program, which could warrant congressional scrutiny if these challenges are not properly addressed by the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The partnership was made public by Figure on Thursday and comes a day after an announcement from Celsius — which filed for bankruptcy in July 2022 — that it will be acquired by NovaWulf. NewCo is expected to be a public reporting company that is initially 100% owned by Celsius creditors with its common equity provided in a tokenized form.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

To the extent that you can get loans off your balance sheet faster, it lowers your financing costs. In 2023 alone, the mortgage industry saw a total of 62 merger and acquisition transactions, lender exits and bankruptcies. of the purchase loan amount when using a real estate agent from Rocket Homes to find a property.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

At the time, the bankruptcy was being conducted by Blackstone , the private equity giant that acquired a majority stake in Stearns parent company, Stearns Holdings , back in 2015. billion in net income during the fourth quarter of 2020 and HomePoint originated a total of $38 billion in loans through the first three quarters of 2020.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

. $700 billion in taxpayer funds were authorized to help stabilize the economy in free fall in the wake of the Lehman bankruptcy and a mortgage market meltdown. And key federal agency mortgage loan programs like FHA , VA, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have fully embraced them. How did this work during COVID?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Also, post-2010, the loans in American are very vanilla on the debt structure side of the equation. This has led to much better cash flow, so FICO scores have exploded higher and the best part of this all is that we have no exotic loan debt structures in the system. These households got sub-3.5% million toward the end of the year.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced the launch of an inquiry into Ginnie Mae ’s monitoring of now-bankrupt lender Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF), and its extinguishment from the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Securities (HMBS) program.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

MAXEX , a major mortgage trading and aggregating platform, has unveiled a series of new programs designed to serve originators and loan buyers in the growing non-QM lending market. MAXEX is an Atlanta-based fintech company that is backed by leading private-equity and capital-markets investors, including J.P. Morgan Chase.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Importantly, the association said that the recent development of Ginnie Maes new, complementary Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM )-backed Securities ( HMBS ) product known as HMBS 2.0 is designed to enable the acquisition of loans from an HMBS pool above the existing 98% maximum claim amount (MCA) requirement. Therefore, HMBS 2.0

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Redfin plans to completely revamp its mortgage services in 2022 following the expected acquisition of Bay Equity Home Loans in the second quarter. He repeatedly mentioned that the company had fallen into bankruptcy and was “not on track” to even make a profit before subtracting operating expenses.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

When assessing December’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) volume data for December 2023, Reverse Market Insight (RMI) used a choice word as the title for its commentary : “thud.” One of the top 10 lenders that posted gains, however, was Open Mortgage. This is a different situation.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2022

FGMC) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the end of June — leaving four warehouse lenders on the hook for more than $415 million. The bank calls out 16 non-QM lenders in the text message, indicating it is ramping up scrutiny of its loan reviews, prior to advancing warehouse funding.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In the reflection, a mortgage executive sees faint images of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. The financial chaos that sparked the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, leading to a government bailout, now haunts the independent mortgage banking market this Halloween season — and beyond.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2022

In total, UWM, through its conduit UWM Mortgage Trust, sponsored seven securitization deals last year involving nearly 9,500 loans valued in total at $3.9 In 2021, two of its seven private-label issuances involved jumbo loans with a combined value of $1.2 That’s a strong start for a new issuer. “A

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BAM Media

APRIL 3, 2025

1: Foreclosures & Bankruptcies Still Below Pre-Pandemic Levels Consumers still worry that were heading for a repeat of the Great Recession of 2008. Number one, foreclosures and bankruptcies were rising in 2005, -6, -7, and -8. People who cannot realistically afford a home are far less likely to be approved for a loan.

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Realty Biz

APRIL 5, 2022

One of the frequently asked questions during today’s booming housing market is can I qualify for a mortgage during Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. Chapter 13 Bankruptcy is a court-approved debt repayment plan where their debts are restructured over a period of three to five years. Mortgage Options During Chapter 13 Bankruptcy.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

People were filing for foreclosures and bankruptcy for years, and then, after all that, the job loss recession happened in 2008. housing market due to rapid credit expansion with exotic loan debt products. On top of all that above, they have nested equity, and more than 40% of the homes in America have no mortgage debt at all.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2021

.” Getting ahead of this flawed premise, I wrote a series of articles that point out that this isn’t the credit bubble of 2002-2005, and the loans post-2010 were good. We have gone from near 5 million loans in forbearance to finally breaking under 1 million recently. America came back strong, and we left this crew in the dust.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

“I think the mega-platforms, like the loanDepots, Rocket Mortgages and UWMs — they will get into non-QM, but they will do it in a very small sector because of the manual nature [of underwriting non-QM loans] and the expertise needed. “It’s Several other big nonbanks have investor loan products as well.).

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Dark Matter Technologies , formerly Black Knight Origination Technologies, is focused on mainly two things: the smooth transition to new owners, and lowering the cost to originate loans for lenders. How does the company expect to manage profit amid industry consolidation , bankruptcies and attrition?

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Realty Biz

JULY 12, 2021

I’m thinking that bankruptcy might be my only option. What’s important for me to know about filing bankruptcy as a homeowner? How bankruptcies work out is highly dependent on personal circumstances. You definitely want to talk to a bankruptcy attorney before making any final decisions or taking action.

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