Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

That’s where reverse purchase financing comes into play, the funding option specifically designed for older Americans. What is reverse purchase financing? We in the industry are very hopeful that this will be an eye-opener, especially for real estate agents and builders to start recommending this product to clients more regularly.”

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JULY 19, 2024

Ascent Developer Solutions , a private mortgage lending platform, announced its launch Friday in conjunction with an equity infusion from Elliott Investment Management. Founder and CEO Robert Wasmund has a deep background in the residential construction and bridge lending industry. “We

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Kessler, a 48-year real estate industry veteran, served as Texas Realtors’ CEO and president for 14 years. “It’s been an honor to serve with an industry icon like Travis, whose dedication and contributions to theTexas real estate industry have left a tremendous legacy.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

In mortgage finance and real estate , the only constant is change. Add to this the constantly shifting demographics of homebuyers, particularly as younger generations enter the market with different preferences and expectations and its clear that leadership in our industry isn’t for the faint-hearted. Why is this essential now?

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Dallas -based Certainty Home Lending , an affiliate of Guaranteed Rate , named Shadi Kamran as its new national business development executive. Our comprehensive product suite offers solutions for virtually every mortgage and home financing need,” Kamran said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

The latest annual report from The Counselors of Real Estate highlights 10 major issues expected to impact the housing industry in 2024, but developers are painfully familiar with at least two of them: labor shortages and skyrocketing capital costs. Energy efficient homes open the door to new and better financing options.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Pierpoint has served NAR for nearly four decades, including serving as CFO and as a staff executive to NARs Finance Committee for 20 years. Cenedella previously held the roles of chief operating officer and treasurer for the Womens Tennis Association (WTA), where he was tasked with financial development and member relations.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

States, industry steps up While the SECURE Act was first introduced in Congress in early-2023, talk of the legislation and anything resembling it has stalled since then. The only state that is an outlier at the moment is Connecticut, where they excluded real estate finance transactions. The reality is quite the opposite.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

In its 3rd year, the HW Finance Leaders award is celebrating the industry’s top finance executives who have muscled through another unprecedented year in housing and helped their organizations come out on top. So what does it take to be among the HW Finance Leaders? Click here before the January 27th deadline!

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Apollo orchestrated this transaction and now our partnership through Newfi provides the financing needed to grow this business and scale it to a higher level. It’s a complete financing solution that helps us ramp up and scale our production in the BPL sector. Multifamily developments have been picking up with a very strong start.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Better Home & Finance, the parent company of digital lender Better.com , launched its voice-based artificial intelligence loan assistant on Thursday. Better began partnering with big data firm Palantir in 2022 to develop the platform. is nearly $9,000.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Freiha joins Opendoor after a three-year stint at Alphabet, where he started as Google ’s vice president of finance and oversaw commerce and payments before moving to capital allocations and planning. Prior to that, he spent 11 years at Intuit in product development roles. Prior to that, he worked in similar roles with eBay.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Mortgage pros have closely monitored the commission lawsuit developments since a Kansas City, Missouri jury determined that NAR, HomeServices of America , and Keller Williams conspired to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s so-called Participation Rule. Assisting homebuyers and their agents adds more to an LO’s plate.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Agency loans have limitations such as loan amounts, only allowing up to ten financed properties and they don’t accept five to nine units. We have access to and business purpose financing with loan amounts up to $10 million for builders, developers and experienced real estate investors.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

stock market, companies like Finance of America (FOA) and Ellington Financial — the parent of reverse lender Longbridge Financial — have recently released their third-quarter 2024 earnings results. In the case of FOA — the current industry leader — the earnings results were robust.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

Nominations for HousingWires 2025 Finance Leaders Award are open now through January 31, 2025. Click here to nominate a Finance Leader. to discuss the trends shaping the housing industry in 2025. Charlotte Simonelli: Weve found many use cases where we can leverage generative AI in finance.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), addressed industry attendees at the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) Annual Meeting and Expo in San Diego last week. David Berenbaum, deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Housing Counseling at the U.S. But, of course, there are also challenges.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

MBA cannot control macroeconomic forces, but what we can do is make sure the actions of policymakers help our industry instead of hindering it at a crucial time,” Broeksmit said at the organization’s Compliance and Risk Management Conference this week in Washington, D.C. MBA is also keeping an eye on a developing case before the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

The Federal Housing Administration ’s (FHA) decision to withhold a mortgage insurance premium cut has confounded mortgage policy experts and industry stakeholders. based consultancy Potomac Partners , which specializes in the mortgage finance industry. “To I’d rather them wait and do something meaningful.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Housing industry experts attribute this to the states restrictive zoning laws. There is a real risk we may see reduced growth in economic development in the state, which has many ramifications. In 1925, the state Legislature passed the New Hampshire Zoning Enabling Act , which gave municipalities the right to zone their own land.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

Top-five reverse mortgage lender Finance of America (FOA) has enlisted creative advertising agency David&Goliath (D&G) to serve as its new creative agency of record (AOR), following a competitive process including several other candidate agencies.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

“Foreign capital is a major driver for real estate development around the world, but the US is still ill-equipped to deal with foreign investors. We are proud to support this exceptional multinational team in its vision and look forward to watching Waltz emerge as a category leader in the financial services industry.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced on Wednesday it has changed its proposal to amend the Suspended Counterparty Program (SCP), offering a less severe version after several trade groups raised concerns about its impacts on the mortgage market. housing finance system,” FHFA Director Sandra L.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

An industry downturn is when leaders find out the real capabilities of the companies they have built. In the title industry , like the rest of the home finance industry, the real dangers are high operating costs that come from inefficiency. No platform was completely successful in achieving this goal.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

Tim Bowler, President of ICE Mortgage Technology, has a clear, specific vision for the future of ICE Mortgage Technology and the mortgage industry. Can you tell us more about these investments and what they mean for the mortgage industry? HW: How do you ensure your products remain ahead of the curve in such a rapidly evolving industry?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

However, the industry is approaching this cycle with caution. loanDepot’s focus is on the sales side, attracting experienced loan officers (LOs) and people who want to join the industry via its accelerated career in effective sales (ACES) program. We’ve been hiring, training and developing our people. in Q2 2024 from 1.7

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Monday announced that it will offer additional opportunities for public engagement as it considers the transition to updated credit score models and credit report requirements for loans acquired by government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

With its four largest firms all at least 100 years old, the title insurance industry has a bit of a reputation for being antiquated and technology averse. “I The title industry has worked hard over the last few years to shed that reputation. Something we say a lot is let robots do what robots do and let humans do what humans do.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

In 2020, a colleague approached her about establishing a Phoenix-based chapter of Women in Insurance and Financial Services (WIFS), an association of financial services professionals who aim to “attract, develop and advance women in an underrepresented profession,” according to the WIFS National website.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

I am excited that MBAs successful, Mortgage Banking Bound program is expanding to Cleveland State University, offering students a fully-accredited course that kick-starts the possibility of having a fulfilling career in real estate finance, Escobar said in a statement. It’s a true collaborative effort, Hoffman added.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

Each year, HousingWires Rising Stars award recognizes the next generation of leaders making a significant impact on the industry. The 2025 HousingWire Rising Stars have demonstrated exceptional leadership, expertise, and dedication to moving the industry forward.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The reverse mortgage division of Rate formerly known as Guaranteed Rate recently announced the hiring of reverse industry veteran Jesse Allen as the president for Rates reverse lending division as the company heads into 2025. That role is an active one, Allen said. Naturally, this includes reverse mortgages, he explained.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Despite a drop in overall profitability in the fourth quarter of 2024, FOA, one of the nations leading reverse mortgage lenders, remains optimistic about the total addressable market for home equity-based retirement products and will continue to develop its offerings in 2025.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Mortgage rates have pulled back in recent weeks giving consumers and loan originators some breathing room, but headwinds in the industry are far from over. The industry would need to see a more persistent mortgage rate decline to near 6% for a more meaningful pickup in prepayment speeds, the note said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Rocket Companies industry-shaking plan to acquire Mr. Cooper in a $9.4 There’s the origination process, which is all of the financing, title closing, and then servicing, where they essentially develop a lifetime relationship. I just think that the industry has been antiquated for a long time.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The reverse mortgage industry in 2025 could be defined by two key developments: continuing efforts to establish partnerships with the forward mortgage industry, as well as the development of proprietary reverse mortgage products that could be the future of the industry.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

Among publicly traded companies, Compass has done technology development and implementation better than most of its peers. It develops tools that solve problems for its agents then uses media to share these innovations across the real estate sector and far beyond. What future state are these companies creating today?

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