Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2024

Mortgage-related consumer complaints submitted to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) fell between the first and second quarters of this year, according to a review of the CFPB’s consumer complaint database conducted by HousingWire. A total of 5,652 mortgage-related complaints were submitted to the bureau between Jan.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

Even though they have a low mortgage rate on their home loan, the pandemic causes unanticipated financial hardships which lead to a decrease in their annual income as well as the necessity of using credit cards for their basic needs. Stated differently, you are dealing with individuals that may be in an equity prison.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg reported that CoStar Group and a private equity group led by Warburg Pincus are currently competing for the data provider, though it is unclear if either have made an offer yet. The post CoStar and private equity group battle for CoreLogic appeared first on HousingWire. billion market cap.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Guild Mortgage has an ambitious plan under the leadership of its new CEO, Terry Schmidt. United Wholesale Mortgage , the top lender in the country by volume, claimed just under 8% total market share over the first nine months of 2023. nationally, per Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates. bankruptcies. It won’t be easy.

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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 27, 2022

The first half of the year, with mortgage rates in the 3s and 4s, was like “Fast and Furious.” The number of home listings dried up , contracts were canceled , the few buyers still out there demanded concessions , mortgage rates spiked to 7% and homebuilder sentiment hit rock bottom. over asking price. High octane stuff.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

The company also provides commentary for its fourth quarter 2023 financial performance, assesses its market advantages and offers an assessment of impacts stemming from changes in Ginnie Mae ’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Securities (HMBS) program.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2024

District Court for the Northern District of Texas , Ginnie Mae has filed its response to a lawsuit brought against it by Texas Capital Bank (TCB) saying the warehouse lender lacks standing and discounts the authority the government has to extinguish a lender from its reverse mortgage-backed securities program.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The housing sector — especially real estate and mortgage — has seen significant layoffs , while the general economy will create more than 4 million jobs in 2022. Then we had the biggest mortgage rate shock in recent history and yet even with that, we will have over 5 million total home sales this year. Production falls. history.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Read on to learn more about Dark Matter Technologies’ plan for mortgage. More recently, we started acquiring businesses in the mortgage tech space. We plan to be in the mortgage tech space forever. Kim : What other mortgage tech companies has Constellation Software acquired? And we plan to continue to acquire there.

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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. From the report: Early delinquency transition rates for mortgages increased by 0.2

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2024

Attorneys for the federal government have issued an extensive new filing in the ongoing litigation between Texas Capital Bank (TCB) and Ginnie Mae , including a raft of correspondence that took place immediately prior to the seizure of the Reverse Mortgage Funding servicing portfolio by Ginnie Mae.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

When mortgage rates fall, the majority of homebuyers (including homeowners who need to sell to buy another home) are mostly employed, so lower rates greatly benefit them, and housing demand increases. If they lost their job, they have a lot of equity in their home, and most likely their financials have gotten better over time.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s effort to temper inflation has cooled the housing market that remains subdued with mortgage rates north of 7%. this week, Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan believes that mortgage rates will stay elevated before the Fed makes further rate cuts. “We’ve Kim: Spreads in the mortgage space are wide.

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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

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. Black Knight is a proven mortgage industry leader in servicing technology. Secondary Marketing.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

” The letter outlines the categories of affected customers: “In early March, Wells Fargo began providing forbearances to customers in active bankruptcy proceedings if we identified a court filing indicating that the customer may have been suffering a COVID-19-related hardship.”

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Kind Lending , national wholesale mortgage lender and second brainchild to mortgage veteran Stearns, announced that the lender originated $1 billion in the first six months of production – a feat that took Stearns first company, Stearns Lending , 15 years to accomplish. Glenn Stearns is back, and not just on television.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The housing market didn’t crash at all, in fact, more Americans bought homes with mortgages in 2021 than in 2020. mortgage rates, so on the mortgage rate side of the equation, it’s never been better. Mortgage debt service payments as a percent of disposable personal income are near all-time lows.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Rocket Companies , the parent of Rocket Mortgage , lost money in 2023 , but executives have expressed confidence about a big turnaround by touting investment in artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the company’s profitability. It boils down to increasing capacity at scale via higher productivity.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

You can’t please all the people all of the time, but Redfin is a unique real estate brokerage , an instant homebuyer, a popular listings website, a platform for renters, a mortgage company, a title company, a concierge service, and a research service on the U.S. housing market. What does that all add up to?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2022

MSP is a single, comprehensive platform used by servicers of all sizes to support a wide range of loan products, including first mortgages and home equity loans and lines of credit on a single system. MSP is used to service approximately 36 million loans,” Black Knight President Joe Nackashi said. Anthony Jabbour, CEO.

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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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Bankruptcy Loans Mortgages Equity 448

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) this week published a proposal for Ginnie Mae to develop a new mortgage securitization product that could boost the availability of private capital liquidity sources into the market, particularly in periods of stress for the U.S. could serve as a logistical template for such a product.

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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. The original plan — to buy up troubled mortgage assets — was quickly abandoned in favor of actions like capital infusions for banks and the bailout of our auto companies.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

In December, HousingWire spoke to Flueid about the concept of instant title and why it is a misnomer for mortgage lenders. HousingWire: HousingWire recently spoke to Flueid about the concept of instant title and why it’s a misnomer for mortgage lenders. We began by integrating directly with our title partners’ core production systems.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. People were filing for foreclosures and bankruptcy for years, and then, after all that, the job loss recession happened in 2008. It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. The housing market shifted in March of this year.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Newport Beach, California-based Excelerate Capital , a long-time non-QM lender with a growing market presence, finalized its acquisition of Castle Mortgage Corp. Non-QM mortgages include loans that cannot command a government, or “agency,” stamp through Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

The funds will ultimately go to companies including Mirae Asset Securities , Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Financial Services (ICBC), Flagstar Bank , Customers Bank and the bankruptcy estate of Live Well itself, according to court filings reviewed by RMD. million.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2022

Non-QM lender First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. FGMC) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the end of June — leaving four warehouse lenders on the hook for more than $415 million. Sprout Mortgage imploded in early July, leaving its employees out in the cold. That’s probably a little more common than people think.”.

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