Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

With a HECM loan, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) determines how much principal a lender can provide a borrower. This “principal limit” calculation is based on factors like home value, age, and of course, interest rates. Why are there two HECM interest rates used with HECM loans?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

This rate is used, among other things, to help determine a borrower’s initial principal limit (borrowing capacity). For such a critical number, little has been written about the expected rate and its impact on HECM loans. When looking up the borrower’s principal limit factor, we would use 6.75%. Example With a 2.5%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Wednesday issued a mortgagee letter that implements the Federal Housing Administration ’s (FHA) payment supplement partial claim. After the payment supplement period ends, however, the borrower will be responsible for resuming payment of the full monthly principal and interest amount.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Take a look below to see this year’s list of honorees. Congratulations to the 2024 Rising Stars! Name Job Title Company Name A.T.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Ginnie Mae announced its first guarantee of a mortgage-backed security backed by digital pools, or pools of loans that consist entirely of eNotes. The MBS were loans closed by Rocket Mortgage in December, are issued as of Jan. The total principal value of the digital pools came to about $24 million.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

This agency’s most recent credit risk transfer (CRT) offering, STACR 2022-DNA6, involves a $1.165 billion note backed by a reference loan pool of 112,865 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $35.6 The average loan balance in the reference pool is $315,272, with the maximum balance at $1.56

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

MBA and NRMLA each state that they are generally supportive of the proposed changes, which include wholesale revisions to the lender table for the best estimate of the total cost of a refinancing to the borrower, as well as increases to the borrower’s principal limit. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) loans.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Fannie Mae has completed the sale of its 27 th reperforming-loan offering since the inaugural transaction in 2016. The deal represents Fannie Mae’s fourth reperforming-loan sale this year and involves a total of some 6,060 loans valued at $986.4 Pool 1 was composed of 1,790 loans valued at $337.8 acting as advisor.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Higher death termination caused by the COVID-19 pandemic was in the data and led to different age composition of the active loan,” the report read. “We We leave this to future research to identify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the composition of surviving loans.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

But the VA’s current policies place veterans at a “significant disadvantage” compared to other buyers, NAR President Kevin Sears said in a letter submitted Wednesday to John Bell, executive director of VA’s Loan Guaranty Service. VA loans are probably the best loans on the market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Office of Policy Development and Research is seeking public comment related to application and origination documents for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program, according to a notice published this week in the Federal Register.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2022

Some Federal Housing Administration -approved mortgage servicers have routinely flouted the agency’s loan modification program, according to Washington, D.C. 21 letter that a number of mortgage servicers employed by FHA-approved lenders failed to adequately implement loan modification options the FHA introduced in July.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Fannie Mae will now buy mortgage loans with lender-funded grants, including down payment assistance, closing costs or financial reserves. The government-sponsored enterprise will start accepting such loans immediately. The loan must be secured by a principal residence.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

LauraMac, a provider of mortgage loan review SaaS technology, has appointed Rick Seehausen as its chief strategy officer. In his new role, Seehausen will work with the leadership team at LauraMac, overseeing strategic planning and developing new and existing products. “I

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2024

In the May 2024 reverse mortgage rates report, we discussed how reverse mortgage borrowers might benefit from higher interest rates over the life of the loan. Of course, the reason for this is because the unused principal with an adjustable-rate Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) grows at the same rate that is applied to the loan balance.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2021

The share of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans in forbearance also decreased, falling five basis points to 1.74%, and Ginnie Mae loans decreased 12 basis points to 4.18%. This is the biggest decrease in the share of loans in forbearance in three weeks, noted Mike Fratantoni, MBA senior vice president and chief economist.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Mutual of Omaha approved brokers and principal agents will have access to five core protections, including a promise that the lender “will not solicit borrowers established within the broker network.” We see this program as a way to show our broker and principal agent partners that we are aligned with their success.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

According to Black Knight , servicers have advanced almost $19 billion in unpaid principal and interest to investors in the past year. We worked with the GSEs to develop better call scripts to ensure at-risk borrowers understood their options.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2021

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently observed that across all kinds of financial services, activities that had once been principally the province of banks have moved into the nonbank sector, including IMBs. It examines the quantity and, equally as important, the quality of credit and services provided.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Lux’s career includes positions at Freddie Mac where he was executive vice president and chief information officer for seven years, and principal at Towers Watson , a global professional services company, where he was responsible for leading teams in the delivery of commercial risk modeling technology for the insurance industry.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) in 2022 aimed to assess the state of the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program over a 20-year period. The report assessed 533,894 HECM loans originated and terminated during the 20-year study period.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2022

Lakeview Loan Servicing , one of the nation’s largest issuers of Ginnie Mae securities, is making a play in the private-label securities market by sponsoring an offering backed by a pool of 2,192 Federal Housing Administration -guaranteed mortgages valued at $423.6 A fourth such transaction, a $370.7 And what am I getting?

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2024

Right now, with the principal limit factors where they are, especially with younger borrowers (in their 60s to mid-70s), you run the numbers for people and they see that principal limit. Department of Housing and Urban Development ] need to look at this and find a way to bump up the principal limit factors.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The alarming data underscores why housing professionals need to understand the financial impact of climate change on the real estate industry, George Gallagher, senior leader and principal of ESG, climate risk, natural hazard and spatial solutions at CoreLogic told attendees during a session at HousingWire Annual on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

That’s the third round this year, following the acquisition of Computershare Mortgage Services and its affiliate Specialized Loan Servicing (SLS ) for $720 million in October 2023, which brought some redundancies to its structures. The company owned $537 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) of servicing at the end of March.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Despite feelings of optimism expressed by loan originators in the opening weeks of 2024, the road to more normalized levels of reverse mortgage volume and securities issuances may be longer than expected. They also shared the progress they have made in building up loan pipelines, especially compared to the end of last year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Through the development of improved and sophisticated systems, protocols and technology, these operations leaders are driving their companies to growth and success. In its 8th year, the HW Insiders program is spotlighting the talented operations professionals who are laying the foundation of success for their organizations.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced on Monday that it has charged lender Rocket Mortgage , two appraisal companies and one appraiser with allegedly issuing a biased valuation and denying a refinance loan to a Black homeowner in Denver.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

FHA loans are a popular option for first-time homebuyers or those who don’t have a lot of cash saved for a down payment, because the loans require a minimum of 3.5% VA loans offer a 100% financing option for qualifying military service members and veterans, and don’t require mortgage insurance. points from the 7.5%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This team during my tenure has done the yeoman’s work of really amplifying, collecting and gathering all the loan-level data that is in our securities to be able to disclose that data to investors, so they really understand what’s in the pools that they’re buying and what they’re investing in.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) in 2022 aimed to assess the state of the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program over a 20-year period. million HECM loans between Oct. A study commissioned by the U.S. 1, 1999, and Sept.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Several state-level real estate initiatives and urban development policies were voted on in the Nov. The “yes” vote also means that inherited homes not used as principal residences may be reassessed at market value when transferred. People 55 years or older with disabilities can also transfer their tax assessments.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

The purpose of the committee is to provide nonbinding advice to the agency on how Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks can achieve their goals as a “reliable and responsible source of liquidity and funding“ across the single-family and multifamily housing sectors.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO), the organization tasked with developing standards for the mortgage finance industry, appointed vice president of operations Jan Davis as its acting president. Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer, assistant secretary for policy development and research with the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

He became an interim principal financial officer in July 2022 following the death of Timothy Forrester. billion and injected $925 million into UWM to develop new technology and grow the broker channel. Recently, UWM gave brokers discounts to be used on any loans, with up to 40 basis points per loan, which raised regulatory concerns.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced on Thursday the launch of a new portal for the Department of Housing and Urban Development ’s Single Family Mortgage Asset Recovery Technology (SMART) system. I feel really good about where we are with FHA Catalyst,” she told HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Minneapolis-based CarVal Investors , a global alternative investment manager and long-time player in the mortgage market, has launched a real estate mortgage investment conduit, or REMIC, that plans to work with loan originators around the country to develop and acquire innovative nonagency mortgage products.

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