Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

According to the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction , over 20% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are produced by the buildings in which we live and work. Once thought of as a niche “specialty” product, green financing comprised approximately 25% of the GSEs total multifamily production in 2019.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

Since the client began the search for her dream home earlier this year, her Veterans Affairs mortgage loan offers have been rejected over a dozen times. Williams, the broker-owner of We Save Loans , said her client has all but given up on buying an existing home with VA financing. The rest of this content is for HW+ members.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

California-based fix-and-flip lender Anchor Loans launched a third-party originator (TPO) channel to serve mortgage brokers, banks, private and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lenders and other referral partners whose clients are home builders, developers and investors. Anchor Loans was acquired by investment firm Pretium in November 2021.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

In the address, the president will call for a $10,000 tax credit for both first-time homebuyers and people who sell their starter homes; the construction and renovation of more than 2 million additional homes; and cost reductions for renters.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), the Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA), and the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) submitted a joint letter advocating for more mortgage financing options for manufactured homes to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

Scott Miller, a former mortgage loan originator at Sprout Mortgage , knew the clock was ticking when the non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lender abruptly closed doors in July 2022. In turn, thousands of loan originators could soon be looking for a new lender to hang their license. Go [Mortgage] was on that list,” Reich said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

When Hometap launched in 2017, the Boston-based fintech offered an unorthodox answer to this question for homeowners looking for an alternative to a loan. In addition to that, conventional underwriting does not serve the new-age economy such as gig workers, so you are seeing this demand for alternative financing. “And

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is increasing the “floor” and “ceiling” FHA loan limits in 2025 to $524,225 and $1,209,750, respectively, the agency announced Tuesday. The new FHA loan limits apply to forward mortgages for a one-unit property and take effect on Jan. Virgin Islands account for higher construction costs.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

More than 160 employees from the now-shuttered Finance of America Mortgage have landed at Go Mortgage , a Columbus, Ohio-based lender. When Finance of America announced their closure, we started searching around,” Reich said. “Refis are the easier product of the industry,” Reich said. “We Go Mortgage originated $753.2

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Buyers want affordable new homes, yet new construction listings are still playing catch up with their high-priced counterparts. In addition to all of these challenges, economic factors outside of housing are making it harder for potential buyers to acquire qualifying mortgage loans. Finance a loan, and you may lose money.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Demand for newly constructed homes continues to remain high as existing for-sale inventory remains historically low. Despite the 30-year fixed rate averaging over 7% in August, applications for new home purchase loans increased over the month and from a year ago,” said Joel Kan, MBA’s vice president and deputy chief economist.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In this HousingWire Executive Conversation, Tom Davis, Chief Sales Officer at Deephaven , discusses the opportunities in the non-QM investor loan space as we head into the new year. He emphasizes the importance of a diverse product portfolio including DSCR and business-purpose loans, to better serve clients.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Thanks to the efficiencies baked into the construction processes of manufactured homes, these factory-built houses are both faster and less expensive to build than site-built homes, saving buyers between $50,000 to $100,000 per unit. Demand for home-only financing is strong; in 2019, there were more than 200,000 home-only loan applications.

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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

APRIL 8, 2024

It now faces a wave of mortgage maturities and payoffs on the thousands of affordable-housing complexes it has helped to finance over the years — with no new construction carried out under the program since 2012. This USDA program, however, is in serious trouble. The LIHTC program, administered through the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

Established in 2021, the company provides short-term bridge loans, fix-and-flip loans and construction financing for residential and multifamily investment properties. The company recently added Tuan Pham as its chief marketing officer and Steve Huff as senior vice president of asset management and servicing.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

California-based mortgage lender CMG Financial announced the integration of Shamrock Home Loans’ origination team, which will boost its presence in New England. The group will be branded as Shamrock, Powered by CMG Home Loans. 21, NMLS showed the lender had eight loan officers and 13 branches. year over year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

Evergreen Home Loans , which is based in Washington state and has a presence in seven Western states, announced a major expansion of its footprint on Friday. John Porath “John’s leadership and ability to connect with loan officers will be instrumental in driving our core conviction of growth and success for the region.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2021

After months of slogging through a string of disappointments, Patrick turned to a renovation loan and started looking at fixer-uppers. Snover said that few real estate agents suggest that buyers purchase a home with a renovation loan, sometimes because they are unfamiliar with the process — which has its complexities.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

Mortgage trade groups have commended the moves taken by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to address a spike in loan buybacks — the latest being a new electronic notification made available by Fannie Mae.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Fueling this increase is new construction, according to Divounguy, even though the 1.3% As more first-time homebuyers are turning to new construction, builders offer smaller, more-affordable homes as well as incentives like interest rate buydowns to tempt buyers off of the fence. Over the past year, the value of the U.S.

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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. Companies will have two years to fully implement the changes. Analysts said that companies are well positioned to implement them.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

Baltimore -based Dominion Financial Services , a nationwide private lender that specializes in financing for real estate investors , announced the hiring of Dustin Wells as the president of its newly launched wholesale lending division. Wells has more than 20 years of experience in the financial services arena.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It also has a niche in construction and manufactured home loan programs.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Planet is pioneering the future of mortgage lending with novel products like Cash 4 Homes, 1st Year Flex, Purchase EDGE, one-time close construction loans, and bridge, renovation and manufactured home loans,” Long said. decline from 2022, according to Inside Mortgage Finance.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

According to data at HousingWire ’s Mortgage Rates Center , the average rate for 30-year conforming loans was at 7.01% on Tuesday, down 5 basis points from one week ago and 10 basis points lower than two weeks ago. The rate for 15-year conforming loans averaged 6.66% on Tuesday, compared to 6.79% a week ago. Data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

Non-QM lender Kiavi , which specializes in fix-and-flip and investor loans, has laid off 39 employees, sources told HousingWire on Thursday. Cuts also hit operations, risk and compliance, legal, finance, business operations and marketing teams, according to a presentation held on Wednesday afternoon. .

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

The ongoing banking instability may affect the availability of jumbo mortgages and residential construction loans due to the high concentration of those originations stemming from small and mid-sized banks, Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group said. While single-family housing starts rose 1.1%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

It has built an MSR platform with 608,000 loans, representing $192 billion in unpaid principal value (UPB) and $2.8 Meanwhile, Rocket’s servicing portfolio, including subserviced loans, had a UPB of $534.6 million loans, generating about $1.4 million loans, generating about $1.4 billion in market value as of June 30.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

HousingWire recently spoke to Finance of America Mortgage President Bill Dallas about viable alternative options for homebuyers and the innovative products FAM offers to meet the unique financial needs of today’s modern borrowers. Bill Dallas: As construction and labor costs have climbed, so, too, have home prices.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

While mortgage rates are at an all-time low, people looking to buy their first home — particularly millennials, who accounted for half of all new home loans in 2019 — have a limited and aging stock of houses to choose from. Construction has traditionally been slow to pick up new technology compared to other industries.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Then, we have all the traditional financing options, including jumbo.” ” PRMG offers a comprehensive range of mortgage products, including conventional, FHA, VA, USDA and jumbo loans. The lender, based in South Dakota, offers conventional, FHA and VA loan products, as well as bridge loans.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Renovation Sells platform focuses on design and construction, while the loans come from HouseAmp. HouseAmp can secure financing of up to $400,000, and the company boasts that it can keep home sellers out of the process of securing a home equity line of credit.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

We’re looking at product expansions and introducing products that we have or through our sister company Anchor Home Loans , which specializes in residential transition loans (RTLs). For example, 30% of purchase transactions were new construction last year. trillion, followed by auto loans at $1.1

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

“Attractive homes are moving fast, so those looking to buy this spring should get their finances in order now, including getting pre-approved for a home loan. The increase in new listings this spring, due both to new construction and to more homeowners choosing to sell, will give buyers more options and help to ease price growth.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

Exemptions would be provided to new construction and units with “substantial” renovation and rehabilitation. The president called for the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to apply protections for renters of multifamily units financed by loans acquired by the agency. Also on Tuesday, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

Additionally, mortgage applications for new homes surged in February as a lack of existing homes for sale continued to fuel the demand for new construction. Rates for 30-year conforming loans at HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center stood at 7.15% on Monday. At the current sales pace, there is an 8.4-month from a year ago.

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