Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

When reverse mortgage professionals from Australia and New Zealand made the long journey to San Diego last year to attend the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) Annual Meeting and Expo, they were ready to learn about the core differences between the businesses in a different part of the world.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2025

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) on Monday appointed Jamie Woodwell as its senior vice president of commercial/multifamily policy and strategic industry engagement. MBA leadership praised Woodwell for his market expertise and detailed economic insights in the commercial and multifamily real estate sectors.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

RE/MAX Holdings , the parent company of real estate franchisor RE/MAX and mortgage franchisor Motto Mortgage , is getting into the advertising game. On Thursday, the company announced the launch of the RE/MAX commerce media network. The initiative is supported by Kontrol Media. Google Analytics data for Remax.com and Remax.ca

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Cooper Group as part of the sale of its third-party origination (TPO) business and mortgage servicing rights (MSRs). The changes come after NYCB, which concluded a merger with Flagstar in December 2022 and acquired some of Signature Bank ‘s assets in March 2023, faced a confidence crisis related to its commercial real estate portfolio.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

For real estate professionals and mortgage lenders, these shifts present both challenges and opportunities. For real estate professionals and mortgage lenders , these challenges heighten the risk of deal cancellations and complicate the closing process.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Rithm owns multichannel mortgage lender and servicer Newrez. It has made a slew of acquisitions in the credit and mortgage servicing sectors over the past two years. A year prior, it acquired Sculptor Capital Management , along with Computershare Mortgage Services and Specialized Loan Servicing (SLS). ”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

In fact, there aren’t many mortgage lenders, builders or real estate brokerages that haven’t at least fleetingly entertained the notion. So why aren’t more commercial real estate (CRE) entities – investors , principals, banks, law firms or developers – seeking the same? And why not? CREs need not go it alone.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

The companys ambitious commercial which featured John Denvers Take Me Home, Country Roads was only the first part of the Own the Dream rollout from Rockets marketing team. Notably, the companys marketing and advertising expenses dropped from $1.2 billion in 2021 to $7.36

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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

MARCH 18, 2025

While home prices, mortgages and other fees are drivers of this burden, they are not alone. The latter two elements have seen staggering price increases in recent years stemming from things like commercial building vacancies and an acceleration of natural disasters. By 2016, this figure had increased to more than 16%.

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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

MARCH 18, 2022

Veteran mortgage executive Bill Dallas has left his position as president of Finance of America Mortgage amid larger changes to the Texas-based nonbank lender’s C-Suite and business lines. His exit was first reported by Inside Mortgage Finance. Dallas did not immediately return requests for comment.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The adaptability of Wrightwell to a changing mortgage rate environment helped to make its suitability for the task clear, according to Brad Hartung, senior portfolio manager at Saluda Grade and a board member at Wrightwell.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

MISMO brings key problem solvers together to collaborate on critical issues in the mortgage industry, said Bob Broeksmit , president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), which oversees MISMO. MISMO , the real estate finance industrys standards organization, on Thursday announced its board of directors for 2025.

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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

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 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 AUD, or roughly $1.2 billion USD.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

… So when you look at Rocket’s strength in mortgage with Redfin’s leadership and home search and brokerage, what we’re doing is simply allowing our broker network to get access to a bigger ecosystem,” Krishna elaborated. ” “We think about it more like opportunity.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Buffalo, New York-based mortgage technology firm LenderLogix , a top provider of point-of-sale (POS) and automation software for independent mortgage banks , commercial banks and third-party brokers, announced Thursday that Ben Head will join the company as an account executive.

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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.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The demise of those banks, which had relied in part on friendly terms on jumbo mortgage loans to entice wealthier clients, had lasting effects on the mortgage landscape – as part I and part II of our jumbo series show. 7, the bank was reportedly offering to sell Flagstar’s residential mortgage assets.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Mortgage applications are now at their highest level in more than two years after an 11% jump during the week ending Sept. 20, according to the newest weekly applications survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) accounted for 5.9% on mortgages with 80% loan-to-value ratios.

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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

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. billion; 5.7%).

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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

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

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 1, 2021

United Wholesale Mortgage , now a publicly traded company, will return to the Super Bowl this year. The wholesale lender will be running a new Super Bowl commercial spotlighting independent mortgage brokers and its website FindAMortgageBroker.com for a second straight year. ” .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Reverse mortgage industry conferences are often seen as an effective way for professionals to meet up, discuss best practices from across their markets and assess the regulatory environment at entities like the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and within the states. Occasionally, U.S.-based Why make the trip? they explained.

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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 1, 2025

These standout professionals all 40 years old or younger are driving innovation, transforming their organizations, and shaping the future of real estate, mortgage, and fintech. Each year, HousingWires Rising Stars award recognizes the next generation of leaders making a significant impact on the industry.

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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 billion in mortgages in 2023.

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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

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. Justin Woodward has experienced the best and the worst of the mortgage industry in only 18 months. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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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. . purchases, according to the mortgage tech platform Modex.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

Lewisville, Texas-based property services company MCS announced last week that it acquired Five Brothers Asset Management Solutions , a deal which brings MCS into the reverse mortgage industry for the first time, according to an announcement by the company. Five Brothers, headquartered in Warren, Mich.,

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