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

MARCH 25, 2024

California-based multichannel mortgage lender HighTechLending appointed reverse mortgage industry veteran Brian Boccia to serve as a senior account executive in its third-party origination (TPO) channel. He joins the company after prior experience at companies like Mutual of Omaha Mortgage and Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF).

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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. While this is counterintuitive, one must often think about reverse mortgages in…well, reverse. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Handbooks.

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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. Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements fell 11.8% and Longbridge Financial recorded increases for the month.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

Top mortgage technology executives say their companies are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) in their operations but still relying on human decision-making to sell loans. ” Jason Bressler, executive vice president and chief technology officer at United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), said. billion in mortgages in the period. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As the principal limit has been increasing, the percentage of endorsements with an MCA over $417,000 has increased steadily since 2012.” Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) set the HECM limit at $625,500, an increase from $417,000. in 2009 to about 12-14% during Fiscal Years 2010 through 2014. In 2009, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

Onity Group , parent company of top five reverse mortgage lender and servicer Liberty Reverse Mortgage , will acquire reverse mortgage assets from Mortgage Assets Management, LLC (MAM), a subsidiary of investment funds managed by Waterfall Asset Management. Onity became involved in reverse mortgage servicing with a $12.4

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

HousingWire is excited to announce this year’s Rising Stars, representing the next generation of leaders in mortgage and real estate. This year 80 honorees were selected.

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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 Department of Agriculture.

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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. Servicers for FHA-insured mortgages can offer the modification immediately, according to the latest update to FHA’s mortgage lending policies.

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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. During this period, the mortgage will not be modified, facilitating the sale to Ginnie Mae. million COVID-19 loss-mitigation actions.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

Movement Mortgage will pay $75,000 to resolve allegations of racial discrimination, in violation of the Fair Housing Act, identified by undercover testers from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. The agreement resolves a complaint the NCRC filed in October 2021 with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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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. “The

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Opportunity in the current mortgage market may be challenging to find — and that could arguably be truer for those who offer reverse mortgage products for clients. Still, reverse mortgage professionals are always keeping their eyes peeled, and a group of them shared what they’re looking out for in 2024 for their businesses.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Wednesday released a special edition of its Supervisory Highlights report that profiles “unlawful junk fees uncovered in deposit accounts and in multiple loan servicing markets,” including among mortgage servicers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Non-QM lender Deephaven Mortgage, owned by alternate investment firm Pretium, has appointed Aaron Drago as its chief operating officer. Last month, Deephaven tapped business development veteran Tyler Bohn as its managing director of national accounts. million security backed by non-QM mortgages. among others.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In 2013, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) began requiring borrowers to pay the Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP) for the life of an FHA loan. People have equated FHA insurance to that of private mortgage insurance used by the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), which is not life-of-loan. This change triggered controversy.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

Mortgage rates declined again this week following the Federal Reserve ‘s recent pause on monetary tightening. The Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, which focuses on conventional and conforming loans with a 20% down payment, shows the 30-year fixed rate averaged 6.67% as of June 22, down from last week’s 6.69%.

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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.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With several top 10 reverse mortgage lenders now active in some form within the U.S. Executive leaders there pointed to the performance of the company’s proprietary loan products and trends in the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) space as favorable.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

When interest rates began skyrocketing more than two years ago, mortgage companies faced a pivotal decision regarding a crucial part of their business: the servicing portfolio. trillion unpaid principal balance (UPB). Cooper estimates it will hold about $132 billion in mortgages at 6% or higher once the acquisition is finalized.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Mutual of Omaha Mortgage ’s reverse division has launched a new program, “Broker Protect,” that aims to offer what it calls industry-first protections to brokers doing business with the company. 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

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

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 million single-family mortgages. billion for the $12.2

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Reverse mortgage educators Dan Hultquist and Jim McMinn brought their “Rules of the Game” presentation back to this year’s National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) Annual Meeting and Expo in San Diego. Wilson,” began McMinn to a hypothetical reverse mortgage customer. The whistle blew immediately.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

Top-five mortgage lender Newrez , owned by asset manager Rithm Capital , has imposed another round of layoffs affecting 265 employees in Colorado and Arizona, per documents sent to state authorities. billion in mortgages in first-quarter 2024, up 55.2% year over year, according to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

Moving forward, the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization , a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Mortgage Bankers Association , will continue to focus on digital closings. 1, he served as the assistant secretary of policy development and research for the U.S. USB drive developed from standards organizations.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2024

Roughly one month ago, Ginnie Mae released a term sheet for a highly anticipated new development for the reverse mortgage industry: a new Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Securities (HMBS) product referred to as HMBS 2.0. So, I wouldn’t necessarily attribute that to the reverse mortgage sector.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Rob’s unique background in mortgage includes extensive technology prowess with leading large servicing operations,” Ranieri added. Uniondale, New York-based Ranieri Solutions brought on Rob Lux as its CEO to spearhead the company’s go-to-market efforts for its cloud-native servicing platform.

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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? Instead, they’re leaving money on the table.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

They also come as the mortgage industry is making efforts to adopt artificial intelligence solutions to improve productivity and better assist customers. Follette, who joined Pennymac 12 years ago, became the company’s senior managing director and chief mortgage operations officer in 2022.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Digital notary platform NotaryCam announced on Wednesday it has been awarded the Remote Online Notarization (RON) Compliance Certification through the Mortgage Industry Standard Maintenance Organization (MISMO) – making it the eighth company to receive the specialized certification. How 2020 continues to impact mortgage closings.

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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. Bank CRA obligations cover far more than their mortgage lending.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

2020 served as a real litmus test for mortgage technology and fintech. For 2021, I talked with Scott Petronis , principal of Xcentric Consulting and one of the architects of HousingWire’s HousingStack ecosystem, about three areas of fintech he’s keeping an eye on in the new year. . End-to-end tech vs disparate tech solutions.

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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. There are, however, a number of additional caveats for a mortgage loan with a lender-funded grant to be eligible for sale to Fannie Mae. The loan must be secured by a principal residence.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

California-based Carrington Mortgage Services (CMS) sees a window of opportunity in the mortgage market. The Federal Reserve (Fed) actions that resulted in millions of borrowers receiving mortgage rates below 4% gave way to Fed actions that… triggered mortgage rates to rise above 7% in the fall of 2022.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced late last week that the previously detailed updates and expansions to its 203(k) Rehabilitation Mortgage Insurance Program will be incorporated into updates for the FHA Connection (FHAC) portal. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

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