Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Tennessee-based community bank Patriot Bank agreed to pay $1.9 The DOJ alleged that from 2015 through at least 2020, Patriot avoided providing mortgage services to majority- Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee and discouraged people seeking credit in those communities from obtaining home loans.

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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

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

MARCH 20, 2024

“They’re a more forward-thinking broker, and there has been lots of activity with the HECM Tool, which is a software application that I developed. That way, credit unions, banks and other lenders [can use it] to help them get off to a good start.” On the other hand], there’s never one loan that’s the same as another.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2022

Stakeholders on all sides of the issues sounded off on the proposed changes to the federal redlining statute in comments to the banking agencies marshaling the changes. Those agencies oversee banks, and are tasked with ensuring banks do not redline , by enforcing the Community Reinvestment Act.

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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. Violations identified vary across different stages of the loan process.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Dallas -based Certainty Home Lending , an affiliate of Guaranteed Rate , named Shadi Kamran as its new national business development executive. The technologically advanced mortgage platform empowers loan officers to serve both customers and business partners with ease and excellence.

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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. Jake Droge joins the company as a loan officer, while Carol Olmos has joined the company as an account executive. University Bank has been around for 130-plus years,” he said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

California-based fix-and-flip lender Anchor Loans launched a third-party originator (TPO) channel to serve mortgage brokers, banks, private and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lenders and other referral partners whose clients are home builders, developers and investors.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Ben Slayton’s Legacy Home Loans , the largest Black-led mortgage banking firm in the country, has launched a special purpose credit program for prospective Black borrowers in six cities across the country. The SPCP loan program will be piloted in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis and Philadelphia.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) submitted a motion to change the court venue where a case with Texas Capital Bank (TCB) is taking place, arguing that a contract clause has been violated by TCB’s choice to file the case in Amarillo, Texas, as opposed to Dallas. Attorneys representing Ginnie Mae and the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

government is seeking to sell $13 billion worth of mortgage bonds amassed after the failures of both Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank earlier this year. The bonds are secured by “long-term, low-rate” loans made primarily to developers of low-income multifamily apartment complexes.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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. And key federal agency mortgage loan programs like FHA , VA, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have fully embraced them.

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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 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.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Patton Gade, the top producing loan officer for VA home loans in the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, will continue to originate loans and hold the national director of military lending position at UMortgage. He’ll join forces with fellow veteran loan originator Jay Bunte in the brokerage firm.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Mortgage tech firm Candor Technology has expanded its Loan Engineering System (LES) to include Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans. The company now fully automates underwriting decisions for FHA loans — minus collateral – and also offers a warranty on income calculations and cleared conditions for funded FHA loans.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

ICBA, along with a team of community bankers and technology vendors, collaborated with Bureau staff for over two years to develop these modified TRID disclosures,” the letter , sent by the group to CFPB Director Rohit Chopra , states.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

These current mortgage markets are what make it challenging for independent mortgage banks (IMBs). Mortgage loan volume in the second quarter of 2023 was down 56% from the same period last year, according to ATTOM. During this crisis, many savings and loans failed, and the federal government stepped in to bail out the industry.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

“A national secondary market for construction financing could allow lenders, like state housing finance agencies and banks, to provide the investment capital needed to get multifamily housing projects built and keys in families’ hands.” This could make the overall cost to entry — which is already low — more digestible.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Over the years I ended up teaching classes on renovation loans, mortgage insurance, mortgage mechanics, etc.,” Then about six years ago, I taught a class on government loans and included a class section on reverse mortgages, and things have never been the same.”. In the last six years, my HECM production has steadily grown.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

The Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures that occurred over the last week have caused even more uncertainty within the mortgage industry. Still, homebuyers took advantage of declining rates provoked by the turbulence and applied for home loans. It was the biggest bank failure since Washington Mutual collapsed in 2008.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

-based Regions Bank $2.95 The Board fined Regions “for its failure to effectively monitor a portfolio of home equity loans for compliance with flood insurance regulations due to changes in loan servicing platforms and third-party service providers,” noting that the bank had a pattern of individual violations of flood insurance regulations.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Most retail lenders are desperately seeking high producing loan originators to make up for the losses that occurred in 2022. The lender runs its business based on a “no-loan-officer” model in which all of its 45 employees are licensed and delegated to a specific role in closing a loan. A lender with $624.6

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

The loan repurchase trend that began to sting many mortgage originators in 2022 appears to finally be winding down, according to a recent report by Sterling Point Advisors and Augment Analytics. We’re seeing a downward trend in total [loans] repurchased [on a dollar basis], and that’s true for both Fannie and Freddie,” Ludden said. “I

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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. TCB was thus left with no alternative but to file this action,” the bank concluded.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Mortgage Technology reported an improved adjusted operating income of $193 million in the fourth quarter of 2023, up 98% from one year earlier and fueled by record sales of its loan origination system (LOS) Encompass. We added Raymond James Bank for their retail and correspondent channels.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Federal Home Loan Bank reform is in the air in Washington D.C. And the Coalition for Federal Home Loan Bank Reform , a group that I chair and started as a small group of D.C. And the Coalition for Federal Home Loan Bank Reform , a group that I chair and started as a small group of D.C. billion dollars(!)

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

The growing wave of loan-repurchase requests from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has yet another major wrinkle, industry sources reveal, and this new problem, if accurate as alleged, threatens to disrupt future merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the mortgage-finance industry.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In August 2023 , the bank disclosed it was under investigation by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) after the nonprofit organization filed a complaint alleging violations of the U.S. and we are honored to support these efforts through our loans, investments and grants.” Fair Lending Act.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

But for some borrowers, a less traditional loan type could make the most financial sense. Without enough timely information to ask questions and compare options, borrowers had loans they couldn’t afford. But they only apply after a borrower has submitted a loan application, which leaves room for ambiguity when shopping.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A consent order signed by a Connecticut banking commissioner said that LoanSnap failed to notify the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS) that its main address had changed. These actions include a Wells Fargo suit filed in Minnesota, where the bank sought more than $430,000 over an alleged breach of contract.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2024

Independent mortgage banks (IMBs) are finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel after two grueling, profitless years in the mortgage industry. With a pickup in quarterly volume, productivity and closings-to-applications pull-through, production costs dropped by about $1,800 per loan.

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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

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). These were primarily in response to the bank’s prior motion for a partial summary judgment and offer reasons why the motion should be denied. Attorneys for the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2024

Recent stagnation in refinancing loans, coupled with supply and demand discrepancies in housing, means originators still find themselves in an increasingly competitive landscape despite having expectations of the worst being over. For example, bank statement HELOCs serve self-employed borrowers, who might not qualify for traditional products.

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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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