Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But only about 17,000 delinquent loans completed the foreclosure process in the second quarter of 2024, almost one-third of the nearly 45,000 that completed the foreclosure process in Q1 2020. Often, the best available option for staying in the home is through a loan modification or some other type of repayment plan with the bank.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Rising interest rates, sparked by Federal Reserve tightening policies, is the primary cause of the mortgage-finance industry’s pain right now. In September alone, IMBs slashed some 8,200 jobs, a recent Inside Mortgage Finance analysis of U.S. Charting the loan officer exit. Last night, my Uber driver was a loan officer.”

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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

JUNE 7, 2024

It follows the the lender’s recent acquisition of Computershare Mortgage Services and its affiliate Specialized Loan Servicing (SLS). year over year, according to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates. year over year, according to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates. A spokesperson for Newrez declined to comment.

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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%.

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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

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. Recently, ex-employees moved to protect a $3.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Cooper , the nation’s largest nonbank servicer of mortgage loans, will refund customers nearly $90 million and pay a civil penalty of more than $6.5 Those modifications allowed the borrower to make trial payments, which would then require the servicer to permanently modify the loans. “[Mr. 2012 and 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 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

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mortgage servicers received less complaints at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to data from Inside Mortgage Finance. in the fourth quarter, while complaints about loan modifications dropped 10.1%, servicing concerns dropped 6.7% Presented by: Computershare Loan Services.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

The news was first reported by Inside Mortgage Finance. 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.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

nationally, per Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates. 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.

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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. The practice of right-to-list agreements preys upon homeowners by offering small lump sums of cash in exchange for decades-long contracts for the exclusive rights to sell the property.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The CFPB’s investigation found that for several years, TD Bank repeatedly gave inaccurate account information to consumer reporting companies, which at times contained systemic errors about personal bankruptcies and credit card delinquencies, the bureau said Wednesday. lender in the first quarter of 2024, originating $987 million in loans.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2022

A deal for financing fell through and Strauss made the decision to pull the plug on Wednesday, sources said. FGMC) and its affiliate Maverick II Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in late June after suddenly cutting hundreds of jobs. They can hold it and wait for the market to recover.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Temporary rate buydowns have become a popular concession, especially among homebuilders, in which one out of 10 loans feature a seller-paid buydown, said Peter Idziak, senior associate at Polunsky Beitel Green. trillion in the second quarter of 2022, capitalizing on home equity loans and home equity line of credit (HELOC).

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

TCB claims that it dealt with Ginnie Mae in good faith, having lent “millions of dollars in much-needed financing to help the collapsing [RMF] continue making payments to senior citizens as part of a mortgage program critical to the federal government.” The Government’s motion should accordingly be denied.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

In addition, nonbanks represent seven of the 10 largest servicers of Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae loans. Another is for Congress to consider establishing a fund administered by a newly authorized federal regulator — and financed by servicers — to provide liquidity when they are in bankruptcy or have reached the point of failure.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2022

As all participants in the mortgage industry know, securitization is a critical tool for making loans to homeowners at affordable rates. The process of bundling loans and separating risks makes available fixed-rate mortgages that are fully prepayable at borrowing costs well below other forms of debt.

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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

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. Originations.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The major driver of private-label issuance this year has been the jumbo-loan market. RMBS offerings backed by jumbo loans are projected to reach the $60 billion level for 2021, according to estimates by Redwood Trust , a sponsor of multiple private-label offerings through its Sequoia securitization program.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

The most recent layoff came on Tuesday when the California-based lender eliminated several hundred positions, including loan officers, mortgage underwriters, processors and training specialists, multiple former employees said. According to data from Inside Mortgage Finance , New American Funding originated $9.1

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Processes and risks In December 2022, Ginnie Mae seized RMF’s HMBS portfolio due to the company’s bankruptcy, and the resulting stresses contributed to the decision to investigate, Oliver Davis explained at the time.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2022

a real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Mill Valley California that has residential operations focused on nonagency jumbo loans, recently reported a second-quarter 2022 net loss of $100 million, after recording a net gain of $31 million in the prior quarter. Redwood Trust Inc. , Likewise, Atlanta-based A ngel Oak Mortgage Inc. ,

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Proposal and inspiration Unlike a typical Ginnie Mae security based on pools of insured or guaranteed residential mortgage loans, the Ginnie Mae [early buyout (EBO)] security would not be based on a modified pass-through structure, the MBA said in a white paper that outlined the proposal. as potential paths for its new proposal.

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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

MARCH 23, 2022

Minneapolis-based CarVal Investors , a global alternative investment manager and long-time player in the mortgage market, has launched a real estate mortgage investment conduit, or REMIC, that plans to work with loan originators around the country to develop and acquire innovative nonagency mortgage products.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

The problem: They did not qualify for the loans. Hill’s scheme, also enabled by a group of co-conspirators, caught up with him, in part because many of the loans started going south. Hill instructed the homebuyers on how to game the system by submitting fraudulent asset, income and employment information on loan applications.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

through its mortgage-backed securities conduit Angel Mortgage Trust , has unveiled its sixth private-label securities (PLS) offering of 2022, even as fast-rising interest rates have jumped far ahead of the lower-rate legacy loans securing the deal. Atlanta-based non-QM lender Angel Oak Cos. Angel Oak Mortgage Inc. The Angel Oak Cos.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

Endorsement volume falls slightly While not a pronounced drop, HECM endorsements fell 3% to end the month with 2,190 loans, but that general drop came with a few notable exceptions according to RMI. 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 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.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The non-QM mortgage market, which encompasses most home loans not backed by a government-sponsored guarantee, is expected to reach the $25 billion mark this year in private-label securitization volume. . Automation just increases efficiencies,” Hutchens added. And it is growing fast, he added. “We’re

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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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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

stock market, companies like Finance of America (FOA) and Ellington Financial — the parent of reverse lender Longbridge Financial — have recently released their third-quarter 2024 earnings results. With several top 10 reverse mortgage lenders now active in some form within the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

through its Angel Oak Mortgage Trust conduit, recently unveiled its latest private-label securitization (PLS) offering — a deal slated to close in early August backed by 788 predominately non-QM loans valued at $362 million. Non-QM mortgages include loans that cannot command a government, or “agency,” stamp through Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

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