Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Finance of America posted steep losses in the second quarter and has pledged to eliminate a significant percentage of its workforce to contain the financial fallout. Spreads on both agency and non agency mortgages increased to new highs in a matter of weeks,” Johan Gericke, CFO of Finance of America, told analysts. on Thursday, down 1.5%

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2024

Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Sandra Thompson recently announced its conditional approval of Freddie Mac pilot to purchase second mortgages. Second mortgage loans are specifically authorized in Freddie Mac ’s charter [Section 305(a)(4) – 12 USC 1454(a)(4)]. billion in loans. Let’s be clear.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2022

Fast-rising interest rates hit Finance of America Companies hard in the first quarter of 2022 and the company cut almost 600 jobs compared to one year ago. . The executive mentioned that recently the company consolidated the wholesale channels in mortgage and commercial businesses to bring efficiency and enhance cross-sell.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Das, a former CEO of Caliber Home Loans , will begin his new role on Oct. Das spent six years as CEO of Caliber Home Loans — a NewRez -owned residential mortgage lending company — until January 2022. Pagaya also offers personal loans, auto loans, credit cards and point-of-sale (POS) financing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Nearly half (48%) of a $65 billion portfolio of loans processed during the first quarter of 2024 contained vulnerabilities to wire and title fraud , according to a report released Wednesday by FundingShield. The portfolio of loans examined included residential, commercial investor and business purpose loans.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

This increased flow of funds appears to be driven by strengthening macro factors that favor residential mortgages over other yield assets such as commercial real estate (CRE) and commercial (C&I) loans. The current stress in the CRE and C&I loan markets further highlights the advantages of residential mortgages.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Kathryn Amor, chief product officer at Finance of America Companies, spoke during the event’s mortgage purchase market panel about what Finance of America Reverse (FAR) beings to the table for the larger parent company. While the total number of reverse mortgage industry professionals present at HW Annual in Frisco, Tex.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Guaranteed Rate this week walked away from negotiations to acquire Finance of America ’s forward mortgage retail channel, which may result in FoA closing the division, sources with direct knowledge of the negotiations told HousingWire. 7 by 9:00 PM EST is the deadline to submit a new floating loan or complete a new forward lock. .

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Blackstone Group -controlled Finance of America posted record margins and originations in the third quarter , ahead of its public offering via a blank check company in 2021. After the merger, Finance of America is slated to receive a $250 million investment from institutional investors. billion valuation.

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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 billion AUD, or roughly $1.2 billion USD.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Less than a year after coming to the rescue of Signature Bank during the market turmoil of March 2023, New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) faces a confidence crisis due to its exposure to commercial real estate loans. According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates, Flagstar originated $15.7 30 to $4.20

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

Global asset manager Bain Capital announced Monday that it has acquired a controlling stake in Archwest Capital , a California -based company that offers financing to residential real estate investors. Archwest provides business-purpose financing for single-family and multifamily homes, as well as mixed-use and commercial properties.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

banks to fail in the coming months because of declining values and defaults in their commercial real estate loan portfolios. We have identified the banks that have high commercial real estate concentrations, particularly office and retail and other [property types] that have been affected a lot,” Powell said. in Q2 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Roemanu , the holding company for Toorak Capital Partners and Merchants Mortgage , announced on Tuesday that it has hired former Finance of America executive Charles Macintosh as its chief operating officer. Founded in 2016, it connects small-balance residential and commercial mortgage originators with institutional capital.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Wednesday updated its capital requirements for private mortgage insurers and allowed rules established during the COVID-19 pandemic to sunset. They establish limits for assets backed by residential or commercial real estate and mitigate the impact if the assets lose value.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank NA, part of Fifth Third Bancorp, a regional lender with some $207 billion in assets, has launched a new warehouse-financing arm that will serve independent mortgage bankers. The lender ’s new warehouse financing arm will be led by Donnie Martin, who has more than 25 years of mortgage industry experience.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Sanjiv Vas, former CEO of Caliber Home Loans , has joined the board of directors at Two Harbors Investment Corp , a Minnesota-based real estate investment trust that expects to launch a mortgage originations platform in the second quarter of 2024. Before joining Pagaya, Vas was CEO of Caliber Home Loans.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

The Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS) shows that Norcom — as well as Third Party Origination Go and TPO Go — is listed as a trade name under Norwich Commercial Group Inc. which had 142 sponsored loan officers and 41 active branches as of April 11. year over year, according to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Former employees at Finance of America Mortgage LLC (FAM) are transitioning to American Pacific Mortgage (APM), as the company will shut down by the end of the year, a source with knowledge of the process told HousingWire. . Multichannel lender Finance of America Companies Inc. (FoA)

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Amid higher rates, lower volumes, and fiercer competition , Santander Bank decided it will stop originating residential mortgages and home equity loans in the United States. The Spanish bank said it will continue to service current loans and honor pending borrowers’ applications. billion in 2020, but there are no figures for 2021.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates, Flagstar produced $14.2 The investment aims to strengthen the bank’s balance sheet amid a confidence crisis related to its commercial real estate loan portfolio. billion in mortgages through its third-party originator channel in 2023, making it the ninth-largest U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

I’m here to build on our presence in the West by fostering an environment where mortgage loan originators and branch managers can truly thrive.” Planet Home Lending is an originator, correspondent lender, servicer and subservicer of agency and nonagency residential and commercial mortgages.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

The current bank crisis hit California-based Pacific Western Bank , a community bank owned by PacWest Bancorp that has a focus on real estate and commercial loans. billion in fully funded cash proceeds from the global investment firm Atlas SP Partners through a new senior asset-backed financing facility. The company secured $1.4

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2023

Flagstar, the 19th-largest mortgage lender in the country, acquired $38 billion in Signature’s assets, including approximately $25 billion in cash and $13 billion in loans, which were exclusively commercial and industrial loans. New York Community Bancorp announced a $2.6 New York Community Bancorp announced a $2.6

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Barr said the proposed changes include “reducing the risk weights for residential real estate and retail exposures, extending the scope of the reduced risk weight for certain low-risk corporate debt, and eliminating the minimum haircut for securities financing transactions,” he said. This is how the regulatory process is meant to work.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

billion in loans, according to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings. The acquisition also diversifies NYCB’s portfolio with warehouse lending business, commercial and industrial loans, commercial real estate loans and residential mortgage loans. million loans as of December 31, 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Better Home & Finance Holding Co. , The digital lender made changes in its commercial operating model to achieve this goal and will continue to invest in Tinman, its proprietary technology platform. The operating model change involved Better pivoting to hiring experienced loan officers on commission-based compensation plans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

Kathryn Amor, former senior vice president of Finance of America Companies (FoA), has taken on a new role at Guaranteed Rate as the Chicago-based lender looks to diversify its product mix amid the mortgage downturn. The Chicago lender started offering personal loans in July. It originated $45.2

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Amid the most challenging mortgage market in decades, multichannel lender Finance of America (FoA) plans to sell its retail mortgage division and shut down its forward wholesale channel, multiple sources told HousingWire. . year-over-year, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. The company ranked no. 33 among the top U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

A seasoned retail and commercial banking salesman in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 39-year-old Woodward joined Interfirst Mortgage as a loan officer in October 2020 after a recommendation from an old college friend. But Woodward struggled to originate purchase loans. “I Without that being built, I was starting from scratch.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and JP Morgan are also entering into a loss-share transaction on single family, residential and commercial loans it purchased from the former First Republic Bank. JPMorgan also said that the FDIC would provide it with $50 billion in financing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

First Internet Bancorp , parent company of First Internet Bank, announced that the exit will include its nationwide digital direct-to-consumer mortgage platform, which originates residential loans for sale in the secondary market. The residential mortgage loan balance for First Internet was $383.9 The home equity loans balance was $24.7

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With this update, we are further clarifying that borrowers must be qualified using no less than the note rate for 7- and 10-year ARMs that are not high-priced mortgage loans or higher-priced covered transactions,” a change that goes into effect immediately.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

a student loan servicer he joined in 2003. Lown said in a statement that he has held CoStar Group in “high esteem” for its trajectory from “startup to market leader in commercial real estate data and online real estate marketplaces.” At CoStar, Lown will report directly to founder and CEO Andy Florance.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Jake Droge joins the company as a loan officer, while Carol Olmos has joined the company as an account executive. Sue Haviland has also joined the division as a loan officer, coming off of a roughly three-year stint as Finance of America Reverse (FAR)’s national sales trainer in learning and development.

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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. trillion in single-family loans in 2021, about two-thirds of which were refinances. It reported $2.7 Overall, Freddie Mac purchased $1.22

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2022

Multichannel lender Finance of America (FoA) has laid off hundreds of employees across several rounds in the second and third quarters of 2022. The company loan origination volume fell to $5.1 Meanwhile, the call centers were expected to be under Kristen Sieffert, president of Finance of America Reverse.

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