Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2025

Global investment bank Cambridge Wilkinson today announced the closing of a forward flow agreement up to $100 million for a private real estate lending platform specializing in short-term bridge , fix-and-flip, construction and land development loans.

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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? 1 With over 12,000 Americans turning 65 every day in 2024, this burgeoning market will undoubtedly continue to bring more buyers and sellers to the table over the next decade.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Black mortgage applicants are turned down more often than whites; Blacks are more likely to receive high-cost home loans than their white counterparts on similar properties, and houses in Black neighborhoods are less likely to be appraised at the same values compared to similar homes in white communities,” the report found.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

In the ongoing struggle for attainable housing, one positive development has been the increased availability of funding options for homeowners seeking to incorporate Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) into their properties. These will help on the margin, but we still need smart lenders to help create even more robust financing options for ADUs.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) this week announced the launch of a new program designed to allow for the purchase, refinance or renovation of manufactured housing under a loan program sponsored by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).

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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

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

APRIL 1, 2025

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Bosman and Kulvin each have decades of experience in real estate finance and “will strengthen Pretium’s investment team as the firm continues to expand its impact in the residential financial ecosystem,” the company said in its announcement. He had a particular focus on residential developers and homebuilders.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Mortgage lending, small business loans, and investments in local development projects are all driven by local lenders who know their markets, live in their communities, and have a vested interest in the growth of their economies. The FHLBanks are also key players in affordable housing and community development initiatives.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks) saw significant growth in support of affordable housing and community development in 2023, according to a report released Thursday by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). FHFA Director Sandra Thompson lauded the development in a statement accompanying the report.

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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). If you’re a loan officer, you should have a construction product that focuses on builders, developers and Realtors.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The firm offers “smart loans” using artificial intelligence and developed a cloud-based portal, LoanFlow , that aims to give mortgage brokers and loan officers the ability to originate loans anytime, anywhere.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The team will develop and execute the company’s investment strategies, secondary market activities, and risk management, among other things. billion in mortgage loans from January to September, up 8.8% compared to the same period in 2023, according to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates. year over year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

1 loan originator in the country by volume for at least five years, is assuming the role of president at Rate Mortgage , the company announced Tuesday. 8 on the Inside Mortgage Finance ranking of top originators at just under $40 billion. Throughout his 20-year career he has closed more than 40,000 units and $9 billion in funded loans.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

He also founded investment advisory firm San Diego Financial Capital Management and before that had served as assistant professor of finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Throughout the 1990s, Ibis developed several reverse mortgage software applications, including for use by counselors.

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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.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The update will also now allow 203(k) consultant fees to be financed for a limited 203(k) loan, and rehabilitation periods will be extended for both limited 203(k) loans (to nine months) and for standard 203(k) loans (to 12 months).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2022

The Federal Housing Administration told mortgage servicers that they can now offer a 40-year loan term as a COVID-19 recovery option. The administration added that some loans funded through mortgage revenue bonds may not qualify for the new loss mitigation option.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

Late last month, Ginnie Mae released a term sheet for one of the most anticipated new developments for the reverse mortgage industry — a new Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Securities (HMBS) product referred to as “ HMBS 2.0.” To get a better idea of the potential impact that HMBS 2.0 I do think [HMBS 2.0]

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Digital mortgage exchange platform and loan aggregator MAXEX announced on Tuesday the hiring of mortgage technology veteran Daniel Wallace as its new chief operating officer. Dan’s unique expertise positions him at the intersection of technology , asset management, and mortgage finance, perfectly aligning with our vision for the future.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2024

New American Funding (NAF) has snagged top Chicago loan officer Larry Steinway as it looks to grow its presence in the Chicagoland area. billion of loan volume in his nearly 30-year career, started at NAF on April 1 as its vice president producing area sales manager tasked with expanding the lender’s footprint in the Chicagoland area.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

will move its servicing operations to the industry-leading MSP loan servicing system from ICE Mortgage Technology , ICE announced on Monday. With Lennar already leveraging ICE’s loan origination system, Encompass , the company will benefit from a seamless, digital mortgage ecosystem, the news release stated.

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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

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

MARCH 21, 2025

As industry analyst Mike Delprete put it in a recent blog post , both firms are now in search of the holy grail of real estate: a one-stop shop that combines home search, buy & sell, financing, and title insurance. John Campbell, an analyst at Stephens , shares a similar view. But Zillow has that recognizable consumer brand.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Industry-leading reverse mortgage lender Finance of America (FOA) detailed some of its ambitions in appealing to senior borrowers, which includes new TV commercials that feature former American Advisors Group (AAG) turned FOA spokesman Tom Selleck.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

All four of the properties are in underserved neighborhoods as defined by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). The company sometimes takes ownership of properties when investors default on their loans We had 15 single-family (homes) in Montgomery, Alabama I dont imagine how the hell I would have sold (them) on my own.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

Loan repurchases continue to trend downward at both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , but there appears to be a separation developing in loan-repurchase patterns — with Freddie reducing its loan buybacks at a faster clip than Fannie, according to recently released data and public filings.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Nonbank mortgage originator Change Lending will become a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLB-SF). Change is a community development financial institution (CDFI) that is certified by the U.S. We are excited to expand our impact and better serve our target market borrowers.”

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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. ” Foreign investors can purchase or refinance property through Waltz for a loan-to-value ratio of up to 70%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Ted Tozer, former president of Ginnie Mae during the Obama administration and current president Alanna McCargo’s most recent Senate-confirmed predecessor, applauded the news that the company is looking into the development of a new Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Security (HMBS) product.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

To save time, Acra employs an eligibility review system for non-QM loans. The system functions similarly to Fannie Maes Desktop Underwriting (DU) and Freddie Macs Loan Prospector (LP) because it has automated review capabilities. With this process, brokers can validate appraisals before the loans submission.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Denver-based loan originator Chris Franquemont announced on Wednesday his return to Guaranteed Rate as producing branch manager. The top-producing loan officer brings a proven track record of high-volume production and financing solutions for borrowers. His return follows a brief stint with CrossCountry Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

The growing wave of loan-repurchase requests from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has yet another major wrinkle, industry sources reveal, and this new problem, if accurate as alleged, threatens to disrupt future merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the mortgage-finance industry.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Thursday said it will aim to simplify the process of funding affordable housing projects through the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks). The advisory bulletin came in response to comments by sponsors that have called the process too cumbersome.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Regarding lenders’ vociferous complaints about increased loan buybacks from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , FHFA Director Sandra Thompson said the regulator expects originators to deliver loans consistent with the guidelines. It cited loans missing key documents or those with inaccurate income calculations as the top factors.

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