Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Federally registered broker and correspondent lender Milestone Mortgage Solutions has acquired Willow Home Loans and is looking to join the $1 billion origination club this year. ” Russell Petty, the founder of North Carolina -based Willow (formerly Grow Mortgage), said he expects to do $1 billion in origination volume in 2025.

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Loans Mortgages Loan Officer Technology 370

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

CrossCountry Mortgage , a top-10 U.S. mortgage lender, has hired a team of former Pennymac Financial Services executives to lead its capital markets and investment-related activities. During that time, he helped with credit risk transfer transactions and the first mortgage servicing rights (MSR) securitizations.

Mortgages 370

Mortgages Loan Officer Loans Banks 370

Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Late last week in an email update to its members, the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) announced that reverse mortgage software pioneer Jerry Wagner, founder of Ibis Software , died in February. Throughout the 1990s, Ibis developed several reverse mortgage software applications, including for use by counselors.

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Due diligence Mortgages Development Banks 293

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In September, the nation’s banking regulators released a proposal to increase the capital required of banks with more than $100 billion in assets. The effort was intended to decrease systemic risk, but by focusing narrowly on the risk posed by banks, it would likely increase risk in the mortgage market.

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Banks Mortgages Marketing Lending 476

Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

Florida-based non-QM lender A&D Mortgage announced Friday that it has acquired the wholesale and nondelegated correspondent lending businesses of Mr. Cooper Group. We took a very careful and measured approach to finding a potential partner to grow our QM business, Max Slyusarchuk , CEO of A&D Mortgage, said in a statement.

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Mortgages Lending Banks Finance 370

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Describing the modern-day mortgage market as challenging would be an understatement, to say the least. Mortgage interest rates have steadily ramped up throughout 2024. The average rate throughout 2024 for 30-year fixed mortgages was 6.72% higher than it was during the 2008 market crash. Finance a loan, and you may lose money.

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Loans Mortgages Equity Construction 343

Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

Following the submission of a report from a subject matter expert by Texas Capital Bank (TCB) in its ongoing suit against Ginnie Mae over reverse mortgage collateral, the presiding judge has rejected a challenge by the government and will allow the report to be submitted as part of the record.

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Banks Finance Mortgages Lending 293

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With several top 10 reverse mortgage lenders now active in some form within the U.S. 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.

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Investor Mortgages Bankruptcy Equity 370

Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

Hochul is seeking to mandate specialized training for bank tellers and other banking professionals in New York to identify and stop instances of elder financial abuse before they take place, according to a report from Newsday. Older Americans are often targets of financial scams by bad actors, and New York Gov.

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Banks Finance Technology As-is 369

Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

Credit reporting errors can have serious consequences for a familys finances, and it is critical that credit reporting giants follow the law. The CFPB alleges that Experian routinely and uncritically accepted responses from banks, credit companies and debt collectors on consumer disputes, even when it was illogical on its face or unreliable.

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Finance Banks Mortgages Loans 418

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Top 10 mortgage lender Rate — previously known as Guaranteed Rate — announced a new promotion on Wednesday. The company named veteran mortgage professional Connie Lindsay as its senior vice president of mortgage lending in Washington state. Most recently, Lindsay served as a mortgage loan officer at U.S.

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Lending Mortgages Loan Officer Loans 397

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The reverse mortgage division of Rate formerly known as Guaranteed Rate recently announced the hiring of reverse industry veteran Jesse Allen as the president for Rates reverse lending division as the company heads into 2025. Naturally, this includes reverse mortgages, he explained. That role is an active one, Allen said.

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Mortgages Lending Banks Industrial 370

Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2024

Bank appointed John Hummel to lead its East market for retail home lending. Hummel, who previously led the correspondent and Housing Finance Agency (HFA) business at U.S. Bank, will now oversee a team of 750 sales managers and mortgage loan officers responsible for generating $7 billion in originations, according to a news release.

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Banks Lending Loan Officer Loans 457

Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

Flagstar Bank has made changes to its third-party origination (TPO) channel leadership. Hoffman has spent more than 30 years in mortgage banking, 22 of them at Flagstar, where he started as an account executive. According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates, Flagstar produced $14.2 lender in the space.

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Banks Lending Equity Commercial 448

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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Banks Mortgages Lending Loan Officer 468

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A California regulator has revoked the residential mortgage lending license of LoanSnap , the latest in a series of difficulties for the fintech lender. The company — which is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California — also lost its mortgage lender license in Connecticut earlier this month.

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Lending Loan Officer Banks Loans 448

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In a recent episode of “The Loan Officer Podcast,” host Dustin Owen and guest John Coleman explore key tips that all aspiring real estate agents should know when navigating mortgage financing for a potential client. To Coleman’s surprise, Owen says that one in four condo buyers use cash instead of financing.

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Finance Agents Mortgages Loan Officer 448

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In 2024, a key element for the reverse mortgage industry was a sense of newfound collaboration that many industry participants felt with forward mortgage players. He also said he is encouraged by a greater role being played by other forward mortgage organizations in seeking out such partnerships. Mayer said.

Mortgages 349

Mortgages Branding Industrial Lending 349

Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Last week, business-purpose residential mortgage lender Dunmor announced that it received a minority equity investment from Newfi Lending , a nonagency mortgage lender owned by funds managed by Apollo Global Management. It’s a complete financing solution that helps us ramp up and scale our production in the BPL sector.

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Residential Lending Finance Banks 364

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Banks have tightened lending standards for most categories of residential real estate (RRE) loans and home equity lines of credit (HELOC) over the third quarter of 2023. Government residential mortgage was an exception, where standards remained basically unchanged. Responses were received from 62 domestic banks and 19 U.S.

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Lending Banks Mortgages Loan Officer 497

Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

Fifth Third Bank, an Ohio-based regional bank, moved its origination and servicing operations to Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Mortgage Technology ’s end-to-end mortgage technology ecosystem, the companies announced on Tuesday.

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Technology Banks Mortgages Equity 448

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

New York-based mortgage lender Logan Finance Corp. She brings more than 25 years of experience in the mortgage industry to her new position. Gonzalez’s most recent position was at Panorama Mortgage Group , where she served as president and COO since January 2022. Established in 1949, Logan Finance Corp.

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Finance Lending Banks Loans 475

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Banks reported having tightened lending standards across almost all categories of residential real estate loans over the fourth quarter of 2023 amid an elevated interest rate environment. banks said they saw weaker demand for all types of residential real estate loans except for government (46.2%) and subprime mortgage loans (41.6%).

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Residential Lending Banks Mortgages 497

Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

The settlement, announced Wednesday by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors , involves 53 state financial regulatory agencies. mortgage servicer as of September 2024, with an owned portfolio of $728 billion, per Inside Mortgage Finance. Lakeview was the third-largest U.S.

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Staging Loans Mortgages Banks 418

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Sandoval said her approach is one that is difficult for banks and mortgage servicers to replicate, not only because of the face-to-face experience she offers but also because of the inherent – and often misguided– distrust that many distressed homeowners have for financial institutions. “There is nothing like that face to face.

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Bankruptcy Equity Hard money loan Finance 448

Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

In the ongoing lawsuit by Texas Capital Bank (TCB) seeking to recoup assets related to an extinguished reverse mortgage securities issuer, Ginnie Mae has fired back by continuing to seek a summary judgment. Congress clearly laid out Ginnie Maes authority to pool backing securities that the company guarantees, the bank argued.

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Banks Loans Mortgages Title 361

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Providence, Rhode Island-based Citizens Bank , the 28th largest U.S. mortgage lender, has decided to close its wholesale channel, which produced over $1 billion in volume in the first half of this year. Citizens was among the few large depository banks operating in retail, wholesale and correspondent in the mortgage space.

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Banks Mortgages Finance Brokerage 468

Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

The current reverse mortgage industry market leader, Mutual of Omaha Mortgage , announced on Tuesday that it has launched a new proprietary reverse mortgage product, with initial availability in California and Florida. The product line, known as SecureEquity, is available to homeowners as young as age 55.

Mortgages 269

Mortgages Principal Equity Loans 269

Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

Mortgage brokers ’ compensation is in the spotlight after a recent Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) test concluded that some financial institutions failed to prove that payments were “reasonably related” to the value of services provided. There are some caveats related to counseling services, referrals, and duplicative work.)

Banks 448

Banks Brokerage Mortgages Loans 448

Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2024

Christopher George, the founder of California-based multichannel mortgage lender CMG Financial , has struck a deal to acquire Greenwoods Financial Group , the owner of Greenwoods State Bank. In 2024, it acquired Norcom Mortgage ’s retail assets in April. mortgage lender, producing $11.8 advised Greenwoods State Bank.

Banks 468

Banks Equity Mortgages Loans 468

Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2025

Global investment bank Cambridge Wilkinson today announced the closing of a forward flow agreement up to $100 million for a private real estate lending platform specializing in short-term bridge , fix-and-flip, construction and land development loans.

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Lending Equity Banks Construction 300

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Our economy faces many challenges persistent high mortgage interest rates , a declining rate of existing home sales, elevated costs for basic goods and services, labor market imbalances, and rising health care costs to name just a few. The availability of funding at the local level is the driving force in building stronger communities.

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Lending Development Banks Loans 394

Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Powell acknowledged the mounting opposition to Basel III from the banking sector, assuring lawmakers of forthcoming broad revisions to the regulatory framework that is aimed at recalibrating risk assessment methodologies and capital reserves. banks to earmark billions more in capital reserves.

Banks 448

Banks Lending Residential Staging 448

Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

Another day, another series of policy changes at the Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA ). ” On Thursday, Pulte directed the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks) to rescind a 2024 bulletin that provides guidance for managing climate-related risks. ” He noted that additional frameworks create unnecessary expenses.

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Inspection Banks Lending Loans 317

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Heartland Bank , the leading reverse mortgage lender in Australia and New Zealand , will rebrand its dedicated reverse mortgage division from “Heartland Finance” to “Heartland Bank” following a recent acquisition and a repositioning of its offerings. “We experienced an inflation rate of 3.1% billion USD.

Mortgages 448

Mortgages Banks Finance Branding 448

Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Executives at Swiss bank UBS said on Wednesday that they’ve struck a deal to sell Credit Suisse ’s U.S. According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF), SPS was the 20th-largest U.S. primary mortgage servicer at the end of June, handling $166.7 According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF), SPS was the 20th-largest U.S.

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Banks Closing Principal Residential 435

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ordered TD Bank to pay $28 million for illegal actions that could tarnish consumer credit reports and for not taking timely action to correct its errors. The bank will pay $7.76 Regulators will need to focus major attention on TD Bank to change its course.”

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Banks Bankruptcy Finance Mortgages 417