Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

Swiss bank UBS Group AG has decided to sell Credit Suisse ’s mortgage servicing company, Select Portfolio Servicing (SPS), to a group of investors led by Sixth Street , HousingWire has learned. Banks have reduced their exposure to mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) due to expected higher capital requirements and risks.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Up to 30% of the 1,000 largest independent mortgage banks are projected to disappear by the end of 2023 via sales, mergers or failures in the wake of the double whammy of still-rising inflation and interest rates. The consolidation fervor is being fed by several factors, according to David Hrobon, a principal with Stratmor.

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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. million, although it narrowed its net loss by 71% to $17.5 million.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2022

Bankruptcy Court in Delaware — show the lender owes more than $400 million to four warehouse lenders, which include Customers Bank, Flagstar Bank, Texas Capital Bank and J.V.B. Obligations to Customers Bank are further secured by a cash reserve account and related collateral,” Samples court pleadings add.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBs) in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. by October 2025, as required by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). These include the U.S. The initiative comes as the mortgage industry prepares for mandatory adoption of VantageScore 4.0

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Sanjiv’s depth of experience in mortgage finance, consumer understanding and thought leadership will serve our company well as we continue to grow and evolve our business strategy and operational platform,” Stephen G. a KKR -owned company; Citibank ’s mortgage division; Morgan Stanley ; American Express ; and Bank of America.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

So why aren’t more commercial real estate (CRE) entities – investors , principals, banks, law firms or developers – seeking the same? A significant opportunity To be sure, there are title agencies eager to partner with CRE principals and funds. CRE firms are also suffering through the highest interest rates seen in years.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Thursday named the inaugural members of its newly created advisory committee on affordable, equitable and sustainable housing.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

The bank entered into an agreement to buy $1.8 More recently, regional banks have been looking to shed assets ahead of the Basel III Endgame regulations. As with many other regional banks, PacWest had billions of dollars worth of unrealized losses in its bond portfolio and uninsured deposits that were at risk of being pulled.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

Meanwhile, Ethan Elzen will be the executive vice president of business development and operational finance. . According to the latest quarterly earnings, the servicing company ended the fourth quarter of 2021 with $710 billion in unpaid principal balance, up from $668 billion in the third quarter.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

The loan must be secured by a principal residence. Why any lender would create a downpayment assistance fund with its own money — rather than that of a state housing finance agency or other source — is not clear from Fannie Mae’s guidance. For banks, there is a potential incentive for making targeted programs.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

Perry said that despite statements from banking regulatory agencies, the Federal Housing Finance Agency , the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to reassure lenders that targeted lending programs do not violate fair lending laws, mortgage lenders remain hesitant.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

MSR holdings for banks over same period remained essentially flat, however, according to Recursion’s data — at $2.773 trillion in 2019 versus $2.747 trillion as of January 2024, again based on the outstanding balance of loans serviced. The total number of firms [IMBs and banks] after this cycle of right-sizing is probably going to be lower.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2021

He formerly served as senior counsel for the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and currently, he serves as senior counsel for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

Warehouse lender Flagstar Bank , which has a lawsuit filed against Hometown Lenders , has the largest unsecured claim, $20.1 It’s followed by another warehouse lender, First Horizon Bank ($3.5 When the company shut down, loans were sold to investors, except those remaining with Flagstar Bank and First Horizon.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Non-bank originator Change Lending will continue to originate non-qualified mortgages ( non-QMs ) for underserved borrowers after it reached a tentative deal with the U.S. At least 60% of a lender’s financing must target low- and moderate-income borrowers or customers in underserved communities.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

NCRC testers made inquiries about mortgage financing with a loan officer at Movement Mortgage, Dave Skow, on two occasions, four months apart, during 2021. NCRC has sought to gum up bank merger approvals with accusations of redlining , extracting more than $100 billion in community benefits agreements with banks.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) proposed some key changes to requirements for single-family seller servicers that do business with the enterprises. The lowest minimum liquidity requirement — for those servicers who are only obligated to pay whatever interest and principal the borrower pays — would be set at 3.5 basis points.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

As banks and non-bank lenders recently released earnings for the first quarter of 2022, two things became clear: Origination volume plummeted across the board, but those that managed to muster up a good quarter benefited from servicing portfolios. billion in the broker channel last year, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. .

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The alarming data underscores why housing professionals need to understand the financial impact of climate change on the real estate industry, George Gallagher, senior leader and principal of ESG, climate risk, natural hazard and spatial solutions at CoreLogic told attendees during a session at HousingWire Annual on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2022

billion note backed by a reference loan pool of 118,055 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $35.4 Morgan Chase Bank , 6.9%; and Wells Fargo , 4.8%. billion note offering issued against a reference loan pool of 190,774 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $33.6 a week earlier.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

This agency’s most recent credit risk transfer (CRT) offering, STACR 2022-DNA6, involves a $1.165 billion note backed by a reference loan pool of 112,865 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $35.6 Morgan Chase Bank , 6.5%; Rocket Mortgage , 6.4%; and Wells Fargo , 4.7%. billion for the $12.2

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

Wells Fargo has finalized the sale of a $50 billion block of mortgage-servicing rights (MSR), a deal that is expected to close later this year, according to bank officials. As of the end of the first quarter of 2023, the bank’s MSR portfolio was valued at $8.81 billion based on the unpaid principal balance (UPB), down from $679.2

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While Fed Chair Jerome Powell emphasized incoming data will determine whether the central bank will raise its federal funds rate at its next FOMC meeting in November, the “dot-plot” of rate projections showed policymakers foresee one more hike by the year-end. in 2024 and 5.1% Therefore, the Fed needs to wait and not raise rates.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

“The market progressively got worse around the start July of 2022 and then throughout the course of 2023, driven by the Federal Reserve raising rates and the lack of liquidity in the banking sector,” said John Toohig, head of whole-loan trading on the Raymond James whole-loan desk and president of Raymond James Mortgage Co.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

But public filings analyzed by Inside Mortgage Finance revealed that seller repurchases rose to $430 million in the second quarter of 2024 — a 29% increase from the previous quarter. Freddie Mac has seen a nearly 55% reduction in repurchase requests from its peak in the first quarter of 2023. points,” Mittal said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

We expect it to be a challenging [mortgage] market from a volume perspective due to interest rates and credit spreads,” said David Pelka, head of RMBS business and a principal at CarVal. The loans may include interest-only , 40-year terms or other creative financing features often designed to lower monthly payments.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2022

Its earnings report shows that it added a new $340 million warehouse financing facility during the second quarter and since the end of the quarter it increased the capacity of an existing warehouse line by $260 million — to a total of $600 million. billion of unused warehouse capacity to support go-forward mortgage banking production.”.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Many independent mortgage banks opted to sell a substantial portion of their MSRs, aiming to free up cash and stay afloat amidst declining origination activity, anticipating future regulatory capital requirements or simply lacking interest in maintaining these assets. trillion unpaid principal balance (UPB).

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Hernandez will be joined by by Faith Schwartz, the CEO and founder of Housing Finance Strategies , a strategic advisory firm that serves banks, mortgage companies, nonprofits and fintech companies. million loans with an unpaid principal balance of more than $1.2

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2021

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) today released standards for states to craft regulations for nonbank mortgage servicers. The CSBS liquidity requirements also conform to the requirements the Federal Housing Finance Agency already has. basis points of total servicing unpaid principal balance.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2023

“On December 22, 2021, borrower (loanDepot) executed an eighteenth amended and restated promissory note in the principal amount of $268,000,000 in favor of Lender (NexBank), evidencing the loan,” according to the filing. loanDepot is the seventh-largest mortgage lender in the nation, according to Inside Mortgage Finance ‘s rankings.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the case of large institutions such as Bank of America , Wells Fargo , and MetLife , we never regained their lost volume. million of [unpaid principal balance (UPB)] that may not otherwise have been issued in December.” Any time we see exits and consolidations we tend to see a dip in industry production for a time,” McCue said. “In

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The new credit risk transfer (CRT) offering, STACR 2022-DNA7, outlined in a presale report by Kroll Bond Rating Agency , involves a $616 million note offering backed by a reference loan pool of 69,144 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $19.9 Morgan Chase Bank , 4.1%, according to the KBRA report.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

Rumors this week that regulators would increase residential mortgage capital requirements for larger depositary banks, far exceeding international standards under the Basel III rules, have raised alarms for industry executives, analysts and trade groups. To understand the context, U.S.

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