Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Home-equity lending overall found its wings in 2023 as a number of independent mortgage banks ramped up product lines over the course of the year — despite a bump in the road in the third quarter when mortgage rates surged past 7%. homeowners with outstanding mortgages — some 63% of all homes — home equity tied up in properties jumped by 6.8%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

Mortgage tech firm Blend launched a software solution for home equity products amid a mad dash from lenders into the space. Lenders using Blend’s home equity product can offer personalized home equity loans and then close in a few days as opposed to multiple weeks it takes through legacy home equity processes, according to the firm.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Rising home prices continue to fuel the growth of the nation’s multi-trillion dollar home-equity market, a fact not lost on behemoth investment-management firm PIMCO. The loans are serviced by Rushmore Loan Management Services.”. Learn about the tools lenders should leverage to streamline home equity title and closing.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

New York-based Unlock Technologies , a fintech operating in the shared-equity market, and real estate investment firm Saluda Grade , have closed a $180 million private-label securitization (PLS) backed entirely by Unlock-originated residential home-equity agreements (HEAs). 21, according to Mortgage News Daily.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

Fintech and fractional home-equity lender Point has raised an additional $115 million through a Series C fundraising round led by venture capital firm WestCap. The capital will be used to accelerate Point’s growth in the $25 trillion home-equity market, according to the company’s co-founder and CEO Eddie Lim. Point raised about $30.4

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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. Its product mix includes fix-and-flip loans, bridge loans and construction loans.

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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

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. “In now known as Rithm Capital.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

The time-tested resiliency of home values highlights home equity’s importance to American households and its significance for residential real estate investors alike. The convergence of homeowner requirements and investor incentives has resulted in a genuine inflection moment for home equity investments (HEIs).

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

San Francisco-based Unison is extending its reach in the heartland by expanding its shared-equity loan program to homeowners in Nebraska. billion in equity-sharing agreements with some 9,000 homeowners across 29 states and the District of Columbia. Prioritizing home equity solutions in a rising rate environment.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2022

Rocket Mortgage , the nation’s largest lender, is expanding its product portfolio to home equity loans amid a significant slowdown in mortgage origination volume. Rocket is targeting American homeowners with high household debt and credit card balances but strong home equity positions. . New Residential Investment Corp.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

San Francisco -based private lender Kiavi announced Monday that it has closed another multimillion-dollar securitization of residential transition loans (RTLs), bringing its six-month volume of issuances to nearly $1 billion. million in short-term RTLs (aka fix-and-flip loans or bridge loans) across 18 transactions since 2019.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Digital homeownership company Better.com on Thursday announced a record 400% growth in its home equity line of credit ( HELOC ) and home equity loan businesses. of mortgaged residential properties in the U.S. So, that’s why we launched the HELOC product,” Garg explained. ” How is it so fast? .

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Department of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s private equity firm, Liberty Strategic Capital , will inject $1 billion in equity investment in struggling New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), one of the nation’s largest residential mortgage servicers. billion goodwill impairment. .”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Jon Gerretsen, SitusAMC Managing Director of Residential New Originations and Fulfillment Services, about the home buying boom and how lenders can gain market share and drive profitability in a white-hot purchase mortgage market. “The The refi pull-thru fell to just 68.6%, according to Black Knight.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

Palo Alto, California-based fintech Point , which offers home-equity investment (HEI) contracts to homeowners, is expanding its services into Nevada and Ohio. Nevada homeowners are sitting on more than $150 billion in tappable home equity, and Ohio homeowners have more than $330 billion,” said Eddie Lim, CEO and co-founder of Point. “The

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

Home equity climbed to a historic high of $11.5 trillion in the second quarter, but it could be nearing its peak as major equity-rich markets on the West Coast begin to show signs of decline. Black Knight calculates homeowner equity levels by leveraging loan-level mortgage performance data and its home price index.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

The demand for home-equity loans, particularly home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs) as well as shared-equity investment products, is now stronger than at any time since before the global financial crisis some 15 years ago. Those 17 deals were backed by home-equity collateral valued in total at $3.9

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Among the provisions of the new bill, the relevant section stipulates that [a] foreclosure prevention fee of $80 shall be assessed for each residential mortgage loan originated, excepting only reverse mortgage loans issued to seniors over the age of 61, it says.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2022

House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (the subcommittee), was sent to the following companies: Invitation Homes ; American Homes 4 Rent ; FirstKey Homes (owned by Cerberus Capital Management ); Progress Residential (owned by Pretium Partners ); and Amherst Residential.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“Mortgage credit availability declined slightly in August, as investors reduced their offerings of ARM and non-QM loan programs,” said Joel Kan, MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting. Companies that plan to roll out HELOC products include loanDepot and New Residential Investment Corp.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Stubborn inflation and high interest rates continue to wreak havoc on the mortgage-origination market, but there is one asset class in the housing market that is arguably flourishing in these hard times – home equity. They are saying, ‘Tell me what’s working, how can I stand a program up so I can capture some of this [home-equity] business.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2022

Boston fintech firm Knox Financial plans to expand its lending business and loan products with $50 million in funding it received from a real estate advisory firm. The fintech also will offer additional loan products, including home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), new purchase loans and cash-out refinancings.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Banks have tightened lending standards for most categories of residential real estate (RRE) loans and home equity lines of credit (HELOC) over the third quarter of 2023. Government residential mortgage was an exception, where standards remained basically unchanged. branches and agencies of foreign banks.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

San Francisco-based fintech firm Unison plans several securitization deals to market in 2022, with private label offerings backed by home-equity assets. Unison, through an REA contract, advances the homeowner a portion of the equity in the property in exchange for a lien position and a share of the home’s future appreciation.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

These loans, which are often used to finance environmentally-minded renovations, like the addition of solar panels, have led to financial instability for some borrowers. The proposed rule would implement a Congressional mandate establishing consumer protections for the residential PACE loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

home equity based on different estimates its easy to see the potential impact that such a large cohort has on a variety of different businesses, including home inspections. We tell all of our franchise owners not to forget about banks, lenders and loan originators, he said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2022

Lakeview Loan Servicing unveiled a rare private-label securities offering this past March involving a pool of mostly delinquent mortgages serviced by the company. The loans in the offering were all originated through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and later securitized through Ginnie Mae. In total, 99.3%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Lone Star Funds ‘ residential mortgage lender Caliber Home Loans hopes to raise up to $538 million at its highly anticipated public debut next week, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchanges Commission on Wednesday. Caliber , based in Coppell, Texas, plans to raise upwards of $423 million by selling over 26.4

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2024

million mortgages secured by residential property, the 11th drop recorded in the past 12 quarters and the lowest level since the year 2000, according to the newest U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report compiled by data provider Attom. reduction in residential lending activity compared to first-quarter 2023 and a 69.3%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Amid higher rates, lower volumes, and fiercer competition , Santander Bank decided it will stop originating residential mortgages and home equity loans in the United States. The Spanish bank said it will continue to service current loans and honor pending borrowers’ applications. mortgage industry are in the past.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

HousingWire was unable to confirm which lines of business were affected, but it follows PNC’s layoffs in July when it made “limited organizational changes” within its mortgage and home equity groups, the spokesperson confirmed. The company reported total consumer loans of $101.8 The company reported total consumer loans of $101.8

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

million residential mortgage originations in the second quarter of 2024, an increase of 23.2% The increase in overall lending in Q2 came amid the Spring homebuying season and lower mortgage interest rates that dipped downward after months of increases, according to Attom ’s Q2 residential property mortgage origination report.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Banks moved to ease lending standards for most mortgage loan products during the second quarter, according to a loan officer opinion survey published this week by the Federal Reserve Board. These worries are now showing signs of alleviating , though the virus is resurgent.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

Fraud risk is growing as the market shifts away from traditionally low-risk refinances and moves toward a purchase and home equity driven market. FraudGuard’s latest release includes analytics that simplify the review process by streamlining the data collected from the loan application. Enhanced Efficiency.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one- to four-unit residential properties rose 51 basis points from the previous quarter to a seasonally adjusted rate of 3.96% of all loans outstanding in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). “As

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

New York-based investment firm Cerberus Capital Management has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire home equity lender Spring EQ , the companies announced on Friday. The transaction will allow Cerberus executives to realize new opportunities as demand for home equity solutions in the U.S. accelerates.

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