Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A well-qualified buyer these days can find a mortgage at historically low interest rates. But that’s not good enough for United Wholesale Mortgage CEO Mat Ishbia. So if the numbers work for them and they want the lowest rate , they can do that and the mortgage brokers can figure out what works for them and get that deal for them.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Ally Home , the residential mortgage lending arm of Ally Bank , is offering a $5,000 grant for eligible homebuyers in the select markets of Charlotte, Detroit and Philadelphia, the company announced on Tuesday. The upfront lump sum can be applied toward a down payment, closing costs or other expenses related to the homebuying process.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Mortgage technology company Uplist has launched what it says is a killer new tool that will help loan officers automatically generate refinance options for their clients. The tool also does modeling of potential savings for homeowners by analyzing various interest rates , closing costs and repayment options. ”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Fresh off its acquisition of Stearns , Guaranteed Rate has picked up Owning Corporation , a direct-to-consumer mortgage lender. Like virtually all residential mortgage lenders, Chicago-based Guaranteed Rate had its best-ever year in 2020, originating about $73 billion in mortgages. Presented by: Black Knight.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac jointly announced this week that they have entered a new critical edit phase for their Uniform Closing Dataset (UCD) as of Nov. An implementation guide released in May 2022 shows that phase three deals with information related to loan costs; other costs; total closing costs; and lender credits.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Consumers are ready — and they’re waiting on mortgage to catch up. While mortgages make up the lion’s share of consumer debt — nearly 72% of it, according to the Fed — they’re among the rarest financial transactions in a consumer’s life. There’s no doubt that mortgage data is among the most valuable in the world.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Each year, the TECH100 awards recognize the 200 most influential tech companies in mortgage and real estate that are working to improve the housing industry through tech innovation. The promises of technology have largely been lost in the mortgage industry and little has been done to reduce costs for homebuyers.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

mortgage lender United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) is the target of a class-action-seeking lawsuit alleging it orchestrated a scheme with mortgage brokers to apply excess fees and costs to borrowers. The wholesale lender called the accusations a “sham.” Escue, Billy R.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2022

Worsening market conditions are only going to accelerate an already hyper-competitive mortgage lending industry that is still learning to adapt to post-pandemic homebuying behaviors. Technology has been the focal point of that evolution more out of necessity than some consensus that homebuyers don’t want to interact with their lenders at all.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

The GSEs figure of $17 trillion held by homeowners born in or before 1964 is a higher estimate than that of the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) and RiskSpan , which most recently pegged the total home equity held by homeowners 62 and older at $14 trillion at the end of Q2 2024.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

Fannie Mae is no longer considering a pilot program that would bypass traditional title insurance by granting certain mortgage lenders a waiver on title insurance requirements for loans sold to Fannie, according to an announcement earlier this month. During the first quarter of 2023, title insurers brought in $3.37

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2021

Have you budgeted for closing costs? Before you get overwhelmed, take comfort that critical milestones of home inspection, appraisal and closing processes are all great ways to get more acquainted with your prospective new home. What’s the difference between a home inspection and an appraisal?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

While our quarterly Mortgage QC Trends Report did observe two quarters of extremely high, if not historic, critical defects, those occurred in mid- to late 2022 as the industry was dealing with the operational fallout from the market downturn. How are lenders managing loan quality these days?

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

With the Fed gone AWOL on purchasing mortgage loans, mortgage rates have doubled and spreads over 10-year Treasuries are at historical highs. Another development in the focus on first-time homebuyers is CFPB’s recent announcement that it was going after junk fees and other non-competitive practices in the mortgage loan process.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The government-sponsored enterprise saw a 20% growth in its single-family mortgage portfolio from 2020 to 2021, driven by soaring home prices and an increase in the average size of loans it acquired. He was most recently CEO of Hayden Consulting , which advises mortgage banks, commercial banks, thrifts, REITs, and private equity firms.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

LodeStar Software Solutions, a provider of compliance tools for mortgage lenders, has partnered with loan origination system and software provider LendingPad, it announced on Tuesday. The aim of the partnership is to introduce LodeStar Discovery, a closing fee calculator, to mortgage loan originators using the LendingPad platform.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2021

trillion in mortgage originations, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), as interest rates plunged, and COVID-19 accelerated an ongoing exodus from cities to the suburbs. Last year saw a record-breaking $3.83 HousingWire: How has the shift from a refi to a purchase market changed the dynamics for lenders?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

Data analytics giant CoreLogic announced on Wednesday the acquisition of closing cost data and tech provider ClosingCorp. The closing data company also utilized CoreLogic’s home price data to release its first national refinance closing cost report in 2021, so there’s quite a bit of familiarity between the two firms.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Jeff Bell, president of both UpWell Mortgage and software company Uplist , to talk about how he thinks about technology, and the good news that the industry is turning a corner after two rough years. Sarah Wheeler: How does being an originator inform how you think about technology?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

As a consequence, the number of real estate, mortgage and general housing tech firms to make the annual Inc. LoanStar Technologies , which connects lenders with borrowers who are traditionally underbanked or unbanked, also made the list again. The past year hasn’t been particularly good for tech or housing. The company was No.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The resources help families with 80% or less of the area median income for down payments or closing costs, for example. The Federal Home Loan Bank System was created in 1932 by the Federal Home Loan Bank Act as a government-sponsored enterprise to support mortgage lending. In May, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Rep.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

Technology equals efficiency. A lot of lenders haven’t spent much money on technology for home equity processes. They’re still using legacy in-house technology for their loan origination system and their processes simply aren’t efficient. That way, they can control their own closing timeline.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2022

For government loans, such as a Fannie Mae Homestyle Renovation loan, first-time buyers can qualify with a down payment as low as 3%, but renovation costs are limited to 75% of the home’s after-repair value, and borrowers must pay higher fees and closing costs than they would on other types of mortgage loans.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Now, thanks to United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) CEO Mat Ishbia’s recent announcement that his company is hiring attorneys to review title and closing documents, AOLs and the risks associated with them, have been a hot topic at this year’s ALTA One conference. “The

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

LenderLogix, a provider of mortgage automation software and application programming interfaces (APIs), has launched LiteSpeed, a white-label streamlined point-of-sale (POS) system that serves small- to mid-sized mortgage lenders. Its other products include QuickQual , which is used by lenders in 42 states.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

It also utilized technology tools and worked toward creating innovative solutions such as Buy & Borrow Bundle. This service allows homebuyers who work with a Howard Hanna agent and get their mortgage through Howard Hanna Mortgage Services to receive a credit of up to $10,000 (or 0.5%

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2023

HFAs provide affordable homeownership options to low- and moderate-income borrowers through down payment and closing cost assistance, as well as reduced mortgage payments. Last month, Black Knight’s Optimal Blue released a product comparison feature in the company’s cloud-based Loansifter PPE engine for mortgage brokers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Jason Cave , former deputy director at the FHFA where he ran their FinTech Office, to talk about where mortgage tech is falling short, and what the government should do to help. SW: Looking at the mortgage space, what are some of the challenges when it comes to technology?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

The goal of Asset Analysis is to automate the labor-intensive process of reviewing assets and multiple bank statements during underwriting to determine the likelihood that the borrower will have sufficient funds to cover down payments, closing costs, and reserves for the mortgage transaction.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The title industry led the way in collaborating with industry partners to expand access to digital closings through remote online notarization (RON), which has helped tens of thousands of homebuyers complete their real estate and mortgage transactions safely and securely through the innovative use of technology solutions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

An affordable home insurance policy not only means lower monthly payments, but also improved debt-to-income ratio and more money to put towards home improvements, property taxes or closing costs. Often left to the last minute, insurance can push a buyer’s monthly payment beyond their limit.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2021

The closing process, that time between underwriting approval and the actual closing, is the mortgage industry’s not-so-secret Achilles’ heel. That’s not a knock on the good professionals who enact minor miracles choreographing the multi-faceted ballet that is a typical closing. Let’s admit it. More emotion.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Rocket Mortgage ‘s top executives believe the mortgage market is near the bottom, which means a recovery may be on the horizon soon. So yes, we’re toward the bottom in that,” Bob Walters, CEO at Rocket Mortgage and president and COO at Rocket Companies , said. You may get a mortgage once every 10 years.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Many buyers struggled with the financial burden of covering closing costs , making it difficult or impossible to also cover the compensation for agent representation. With the advancements in technology, finding homes online has become easy and straightforward. For these buyers, every dollar matters.

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Realtor.com

MARCH 12, 2021

Getty Images Mortgage rates are on the rise after nearly a year of record lows, providing a nudge to homeowners who want to refinance but didn’t get around to it yet. First find the difference between your current mortgage rate and the potential savings of a refinance offer. What if closing costs are too high?

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Realty Biz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I’ve been told by my older brother and others that I should take out an adjustable rate mortgage because I plan to sell my first house before the interest rate will increase. He tells me that he was able to buy a bigger house because the mortgage payments were lower with an adjustable mortgage. What do you think?

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Marco Santarelli

APRIL 28, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently announced changes to the loan-level price adjustments (LLPAs) for borrowers with conventional mortgages backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. The changes, which are set to take effect on May 1, 2023, will impact the pricing structure of mortgages for borrowers.

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