Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

After two years of limited demand, private equity and insurance companies are increasing their allocations to single family residential mortgages. These strong fund flows are resulting in tighter credit spreads, higher prices, and an increased focus on sourcing new originations.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2024

Reverse mortgage industry leader Finance of America (FOA) announced this week that it has restructured its unsecured debt into new, secured debt that will come due beyond the original 2025 maturity date. According to Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsement data compiled by Reverse Market Insight (RMI), FOA was the No.

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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

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. The traditional mortgage business notched $4.23 The rapidly rising rates and spreads also led to compressed margins for both reverse and commercial mortgages.

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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 lender’s traditional mortgage business reached $5.1 Commercial originations increased 68% year-over-year, to $573 million, but declined 1% quarter over quarter.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

While the total number of reverse mortgage industry professionals present at HW Annual in Frisco, Tex. 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.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2020

End-to-end lending and services platform Finance of America Capital is the latest mortgage company to get in on the mushrooming IPO craze. Finance of America, says its collection of companies has originated over $65 billion in loans since 2017. Finance of America operates through retail, wholesale and correspondent channels.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

New York Community Bancorp , the parent of Flagstar Bank , said it’s still committed to the home loan business despite selling approximately $5 billion in warehouse mortgages to JPMorgan Chase Bank to improve its capital and liquidity position. market share, according to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Dovenmuehle Mortgage , a mortgage sub-servicing company, has informed authorities in Illinois that it will impose a layoff affecting hundreds of employees next year. However, higher mortgage rates this year led mortgage origination volume to decline to $1.6 14 to the state authority. .” trillion, compared to $2.2

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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 It also had $84.3

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

After reaching their highest level since July 2022 , mortgage applications have declined for two straight weeks, counteracting some recent positive signs for a still-sputtering housing industry. According to weekly data released Wednesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), applications shrank 5.1% of new applications. “As

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO), a subsidiary of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), has been developing a series of uniform technology standards that will ideally allow for the somewhat siloed reverse mortgage industry to more easily collaborate with others in the mortgage finance ecosystem.

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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)]. That is where the Freddie Mac second mortgage comes in.

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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. 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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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Expect 2024 to be mildly better than 2023 with mortgage rates falling in the second half of the year, housing experts opined in their forecasts at the end of the year. The pessimism is visible in mortgage rates. Freddie Mac ‘s weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey is climbing back towards 7%.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

When offering advice on how to manage these costs, the mayor brought up the potential for a reverse mortgage. Property taxes in the city — as is the case with many localities nationwide — are higher, and the tax burden is increasingly shifting from commercial to residential properties. Pride then read the room’s reaction. “I

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2024

As those on a fixed income continue to wrestle with rising property taxes , the mayor of South Portland, Maine , recently recommended that area seniors explore reverse mortgages as a potential option to add financial flexibility. After enduring backlash, Mayor Misha Pride has walked back his comments.

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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

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

JANUARY 22, 2024

Top-35 mortgage lender New American Funding (NAF) is in negotiations to acquire Chicago-based retail shop Draper & Kramer Mortgage Corp. As part of the deal , NAF would acquire the residential mortgage arm of Draper & Kramer , a property and financial services group established in 1893 by Arthur W. Draper and Adolph F.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

This collaboration has brought on the truest sense of community.” – Bill Dallas, president of Finance of America Mortgage. Still, few bring the degree of holistic focus of Finance of America Cares (FOA Cares), which aims its generosity at both the wider world and the workforce within Finance of America.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2022

Finance of America CEO Patti Cook. In February, Finance of America CEO Patti Cook announced her retirement after a successful career in finance that spanned 45 years. When you look at how fixed-income developed, mortgage-backed securities were brand new at the time and I was right at the forefront of that work.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

Bank of America (BofA) reported another quarterly decline in mortgage and home equity production in the first quarter of 2024. mortgage lender stated it produced a volume of $3.4 billion in first mortgages from January to March, down 12.5% BofA’s mortgage assets Bank of America had $227.7 from the $3.9

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

According to Cangem, the substantial Fed policy shift last year resulted in significantly higher residential mortgage rates. It harmed the business, as the higher rates caused all mortgage activity to slow. NYCB says it was the 8th-largest bank originator of residential mortgages in 2022, with $24.2 billion in volume.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

First Internet Bank is shutting down its consumer mortgage business due to a steep decline in mortgage volumes and the negative outlook for mortgage lending that is forecasted to continue for the next several years. The residential mortgage loan balance for First Internet was $383.9 million as of December 31, 2022, a 13.7%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

Connecticut-based lender and servicer Planet Home Lending has acquired the assets of Illinois-based retail lender Platinum Home Mortgage Corporation. Founded in 1993 by Bill and Michael Giambrone, Platinum has 22 branches and 79 active loan officers, according to the mortgage tech platform Modex. The lender originated $6.5

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The decision to exit the forward mortgage business hit Finance of America Companies hard in the third quarter of 2022. FoA announced the shutdown of Finance of America Mortgage , its forward mortgage business, in late October, becoming the largest originator to do so this cycle. Presented by: FundingShield.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Industry-leading reverse mortgage lender Finance of America (FOA) on Tuesday announced updates and new details for a previously announced exchange offer , which would swap current investor bonds due in 2025 with new bonds due one to four years later. In late July, FOA also posted an infomercial featuring Selleck to its YouTube channel.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

Perhaps the most striking detail gleaned from a HousingWire analysis of millions of single-family purchase mortgages is how much more homebuyers had to pay in 2023 compared to 2022. Residential mortgage originators are responsible for filing data with the CFPB under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.

Mortgages 466

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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. On Wednesday, the bank announced that it will consider applications for residential mortgage or home equity line of credit (HELOC) on the portal EZApply only until Feb.

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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

MAY 7, 2024

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 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 10, 2023

California-based Impac Mortgage Holdings is repositioning itself as a mortgage brokerage and voluntarily giving up its seller-servicer designation with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Non-qualified mortgages will continue to be the dominant product in the broker channel, the company said.

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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. FoA originated $6 billion through the retail mortgage channel from January to June, down 50.7%

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Pink slips will start arriving for Santander Bank ’s employees working in the mortgage and home equity businesses following the bank’s announcement to stop originating such loans in the United States. HousingWire has learned that the bank’s exit from the residential mortgage business in the U.S. Santander Bank, NA.,

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