Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2025

These green building benefits associated with modular construction do not come with the dreaded green cost premium even though recent research shows that developers are willing to pay an average 10% more on construction costs if it allows their business to shift towards a more circular and sustainable business model.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

University Bank ’s reverse mortgage division has added four key hires across different disciplines as it prepares to grow further in the reverse mortgage space. Both Droge and Olmos come to University Bank from Open Mortgage , which shuttered its own top 10 reverse mortgage lending division late last year.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

The latest annual report from The Counselors of Real Estate highlights 10 major issues expected to impact the housing industry in 2024, but developers are painfully familiar with at least two of them: labor shortages and skyrocketing capital costs. Energy efficient homes open the door to new and better financing options.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Unlike other HousingWire awards, Finance Leaders focuses specifically on corporate finance, secondary marketing, capital markets or strategic finance executives within mortgage banking or a real estate brokerage only. The post Nominations for HousingWire’s Finance Leaders award are now open!

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

Fannie Mae has projected that the recent bank failures may act as the catalyst that tips an already precarious economy into a recession — primarily due to the combination of tighter lending standards by small- and mid-sized regional banks. Jumbo loans account for approximately 12% of all loans originated as of February 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

New Jersey-based TD Bank has decided to invest $10 billion in affordable homeownership initiatives by 2027, including providing loans and liquidity to the residential lending market. In the mortgage space, TD Bank was a top-35 U.S. billion in loans, down 25% year over year, according to Inside Mortgage Finance estimates.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

In its 3rd year, the HW Finance Leaders award is celebrating the industry’s top finance executives who have muscled through another unprecedented year in housing and helped their organizations come out on top. So what does it take to be among the HW Finance Leaders? Click here for more details on eligibility.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Nonbank mortgage originator Change Lending will become a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLB-SF). Change is a community development financial institution (CDFI) that is certified by the U.S. We are excited to expand our impact and better serve our target market borrowers.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

government’s motion to stop the gathering of evidence in a case against Ginnie Mae , Texas Capital Bank (TCB) responded to the government’s attempt to dismiss the entirety of the bank’s complaint. Roughly 24 hours after filing an objection to the U.S. The Government’s motion should accordingly be denied.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

” Waltz aims to support international buyers with a “comprehensive” solution that covers the compliance, legal, banking and regulatory processes to close the purchase process within 30 days. bank account is also created to help the investor manage the property remotely, including through fast currency exchange capabilities.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Tennessee-based community bank Patriot Bank agreed to pay $1.9 Over the same six-year period, other banks received nearly 3.5 Patriot Bank denied any allegations of redlining. million to resolve allegations from the Department of Justice (DOJ) that it engaged in redlining discriminatory practices.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

In its March Supervisory Highlights, the FDIC stated that many institutions have developed policies and procedures to ensure sufficient mortgage broker services are provided in order to receive compensation , which was the first of a two-part test.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

A magistrate judge overseeing requests in a case against Ginnie Mae brought by Texas Capital Bank (TCB) has granted each side’s respective requests for an extension — one for a partial summary judgment for TCB, and the other for a change in venue by attorneys for the U.S. government.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Accused of redlining by regulators, First National Bank of Pennsylvania (FNB) has agreed to settle the case for $13.5 FNB was involved in the case as a successor in interest of Yadkin Bank , which it acquired in 2017. In addition, the bank discouraged these customers from obtaining home loans, according to the complaint.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Rogers met with HousingWire to discuss his new role and cover a variety of topics, including artificial intelligence (AI), climate risk and land development. NP: You work directly with land developers too. What sort of policies are you helping to develop on their end? This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

Presidents and board chairs of the 11 Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks), under pressure to pump more money into affordable housing, sent letters to the U.S. These include, among other things, providing more access to the system to Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) and reducing the regulatory burden on its programs.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Thursday said it will aim to simplify the process of funding affordable housing projects through the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks). The advisory bulletin came in response to comments by sponsors that have called the process too cumbersome.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

F2 Finance wants to scoop up a share of a “fragmented” fix-and-flip market as a lack of housing inventory sharply limits transactions. just to give an idea of how fragmented it is in terms of the lender,” Christian Faes, founder of F2 Finance, said in an interview with HousingWire. LendInvest has more than $4.7 billion (£3.7

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Ted Tozer, former president of Ginnie Mae during the Obama administration and current president Alanna McCargo’s most recent Senate-confirmed predecessor, applauded the news that the company is looking into the development of a new Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Security (HMBS) product. That’s all it says.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Last year, in a Housing Wire op-ed , Community Home Lenders of America took the lead nationally in opposing calls to extend the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to independent mortgage banks (IMBs). . Many community banks do a great job of mortgage lending to underserved homebuyers. So why would we extend it to IMBs?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)s Office of Policy Development and Research recently published a report that more closely examines the housing needs of older Americans and the pain points that have exacerbated their needs stemming from a national housing crisis. population, on housing demand, according to the report.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

The Federal Reserve ’s 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances found that the median net worth of a homeowner is approximately $255,000 — more than 40 times that of a renter. It has enabled first-time, low- to moderate-income borrowers to secure affordable mortgage financing since 1957 while protecting taxpayers from mortgage credit risk.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To understand the dynamics of his new role, RMD sat down with Morales to learn more about his individual and company goals, including the potential for a large national bank to become involved in the reverse mortgage business for the first time since the early 2010s. national bank, a large bank [that is considering entering] reverse.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Council of Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks) lauded this week’s release of a report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which highlighted the banks’ growth in support of affordable housing and community development efforts in 2023. It also indicated that the banks gave $134.6

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2021

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently observed that across all kinds of financial services, activities that had once been principally the province of banks have moved into the nonbank sector, including IMBs. Bank CRA obligations cover far more than their mortgage lending.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)s education division, MBA Education, recently launched its Mortgage Banking Bound (MBB) program at Cleveland State University. The industry is getting the talent developments and potential new students to enter their workforce. It’s a true collaborative effort, Hoffman added.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

On Tuesday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released a report that examines the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLBank) system, looking back at its 90-year legacy and offering a series of transformative goals the agency hopes to reach before its centennial in 2032.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Federal Home Loan Bank reform is in the air in Washington D.C. The White House recently endorsed a plan to double FHLBanks’ mandatory contributions to affordable housing programs from 10 to 20% of their net income, following a recommendation by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. billion dollars(!) billion, as dividends !

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2020

In a release on Thursday, the Federal Reserve detailed some of the research it’s doing on the benefits and risks associated with central bank digital currencies. Through CBDC’s, central banks have the ability to trace and track every transaction in real-time. Brainard, a current member of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Former banker Matthew Feldman has been named chairman of the board of managers at the Federal Housing Finance Agency – controlled Common Securitization Solutions , where he will lead a transition to better align the organization’s “corporate governance structure with its core mission,” FHFA announced today. Presented by: Flagstar Bank.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), last week filed a slew of new documents in their court case against Texas Capital Bank (TCB). But TCB also claims that Ginnie Mae did not specify the impact this would have on the liens that the bank had a vested interest in, its attorneys said. Attorneys for the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

about the 2023 Basel III Endgame proposal , which would modify risk-based capital requirements for large banks. He also described increasing aggregate common equity tier 1 capital requirements for the global systemically important banks (G-SIB) by 9%, and increasing capital requirements for non-GSIB firms subject to the rule by 0.5%.

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Banks Lending Finance Loans 448

Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

Rocket, the top lender in the country with $351 billion originated in 2021, according to Inside Mortgage Finance, has perhaps invested more than any other lender in America on mortgage tech over the last decade. Bank Home Mortgage. Bank Home Mortgage is the 10th-largest lender in the U.S. The Minnesota-based U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) have signed onto a memorandum of understanding to formally share information between each other related to nonbank mortgage companies. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 2013.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

David Stevens, a legend of the mortgage banking industry who helmed the Federal Housing Agency and the Mortgage Bankers Association in a career that spanned four decades, has died. a financial services consulting firm focused on real estate finance. Stevens oversaw FHA programs for single and multifamily housing for two years.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

.” Knag has an extensive resume, having served in several financial leadership roles in the media, telecommunications, technology and finance sectors. He began his career in investment banking, going on to work for Lehman Brothers and First Albany Corp.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Apollo orchestrated this transaction and now our partnership through Newfi provides the financing needed to grow this business and scale it to a higher level. It’s a complete financing solution that helps us ramp up and scale our production in the BPL sector. Multifamily developments have been picking up with a very strong start.

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