Keeping Current Matters

JUNE 23, 2021

In a recent paper published by the Urban Institute, Home Ownership is Affordable Housing , author Mike Loftin illustrates how homeowners increase their equity and their wealth simply by making monthly mortgage payments: “The principal portion that reduces the loan balance builds the homeowner’s equity.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

But some misconceptions about how the credit line is impacted by partial Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) prepayments was called out by Hultquist and McMinn. “Mr. Relationship between debt and equity McMinn continued with the next misconception, speaking again to a hypothetical borrower. Again, the whistle immediately rang out.

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Keeping Current Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2021

But what about equity? While it can be overlooked, a homeowner’s equity helps build long-term wealth over time. Here’s a look at what equity is and why it matters. For a homeowner, your equity is the current value of your home minus what you owe on the loan. So, as home values climb , your equity does too.

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Keeping Current Matters

JANUARY 6, 2021

This ‘wealth’ is built, in large part, through the creation of equity…Building equity through your monthly principal payments and appreciation is a critical part of homeownership that can help you create financial stability.”. To estimate your equity, subtract your mortgage balance from the market value of your home.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

When older homeowners wish to access a portion of their equity, there are multiple options. The Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) and the Home Equity Line of Credit ( HELOC ) remain as the primary options left for older homeowners who want to use their home equity to create more liquidity during retirement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

The federally insured reverse mortgage known as a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) is unique, as are the rates that impact the HECM product. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) determines how much principal a lender can provide a borrower. This has caused HECM principal limits to drop for new applications.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the August rate update, I explained why over 99% of Home Equity Conversion Mortgages ( HECM s) are variable interest rate loans and the advantages of this over the fixed-rate counterpart. After all, older ages and lower interest rates generally yield higher principal limits. To the novice, this may appear to be the right choice.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

In the March rate update , we discussed why Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-sponsored Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) utilize two interest rates. This rate is used, among other things, to help determine a borrower’s initial principal limit (borrowing capacity). we must use the nearest 1/8th percent (0.125%).

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

According to Black Knight’s mortgage monitor report, the average principal and interest payment among borrowers purchasing a home using a 30-year fixed-rate loan hit its highest point ever in July at $2,306. Between 2010 and 2021, mortgage holders withdrew an average 0.92% of available tappable equity each quarter.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

Many seniors aren’t aware of a sensible financial tool that could ease their worry and help them thrive during their golden years: the home equity conversion mortgage, also called a reverse mortgage. Or, if they are aware of this option, they may view it with skepticism based on longstanding misconceptions.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The Big Chill” or “Frozen,” says Green, principal at real estate law firm Polunsky Beitel Green. They are not selling and have a lot of equity in their homes. Homeowners in 2022 also tapped into their home equity, which peaked at $11.5 over asking price. High octane stuff. But the housing market in the second half of 2022?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

mortgage delinquencies remained near a record low in July, with the share of homes entering that status or progressing to later stages either unchanged or lower,” said Molly Boesel, principal economist for CoreLogic , in a news release. On home equity , Boesel noted that home-price growth should pick up over the next year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

New York-based Rithm Capital has changed the compensation package of its top executive, Michael Nierenberg, by reducing his annual base salary, bonus and time-based equity award. But the company also increased the performance-based share of the total equity award.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Guild Mortgage announced on Wednesday the introduction of a new product line called the “ Flex Payment Mortgage ,” which includes Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-sponsored Home Equity Conversion Mortgages ( HECMs ), refinances, proprietary jumbo options and HECM for Purchase (H4P) loans.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2022

A combination of fast-rising home values and the fact that nearly two-thirds of borrowers with at least some home equity have mortgage rates below 4% — and would not benefit from refinancing — is helping to propel a resurgent market for home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs). billion in 2021 to $4.6 trillion year over year. “At

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

million in aggregate principal amount available for 30 days to cover over-allotments. BTIG analysts Eric Hagen and Jake Katsikas estimate that the debt offering will bring the company’s total unsecured debt stack to $850 million, supported by about $1 billion in stockholder equity. The offering can be increased by $12.75

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

While the average unpaid principal balance of borrowers entering a refinance has fallen from $319K in early 2020 to $183K in August 2023, it is even lower ($165K) among cash-outs specifically. Alongside rising interest rates, the average equity withdrawal among cash-out refinances has also risen by nearly 90% from its low in 2020.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

As people look for alternate means to access the equity in their homes, home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) are poised to make a comeback. Here’s why: Homeowners will still want to use the record levels of equity in their homes. According to CNBC, homeowner equity is an aggregate $9.9 A HELOC is now cheaper than a refi.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

1, NerdWallet is paying $1 million in cash for the outstanding equity interests of Next Door. I have really enjoyed getting to know Next Door Lending’s principals, Doug [Liska] and Jonathon, through this process,” Chen said. As part of the deal that closed Oct. It is also offering $3.5

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

Prior to joining Nations Direct, O’Brien held leadership positions at LoanDepot , was Northeast regional sales manager at Fifth Third Bank; principal at J.H. O’Brien & Associates and VP, Eastern regional sales manager at National City Home Equity, among others. .

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

As people look for alternate means to access the equity in their homes, home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) are poised to make a comeback. Here’s why: Homeowners will still want to use the record levels of equity in their homes. According to CNBC, homeowner equity is an aggregate $9.9 A HELOC is now cheaper than a refi.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

Five Brothers expressed enthusiasm “to be joining forces with MCS to continue providing necessary and valuable nationwide field services, advanced technologies and unrivaled reverse/Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) expertise to its clients,” president and CEO Nickalene Badalamenti-Kalas said in a statement. “We

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2024

” According to the agency, Mr. Cooper’s leverage — calculated as debt to tangible equity — was 2.1 Meanwhile, Rithm Capital priced an offering of $775 million in aggregate principal of senior unsecured notes due in 2029 at 8% per year. times in the second quarter of 2024, compared to 1.9 times at the end of 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

Announced by Marion McFadden, HUD principal assistant secretary for community planning, at a Habitat for Humanity event in Nashville, the $13.5 million in “sweat equity grants” will go to support four nonprofit housing providers. The Colorado recipient, Tierra Del Sol Housing Corp. will receive $1 million.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2024

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. While this is counterintuitive, one must often think about reverse mortgages in…well, reverse. ’ Yes.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

home equity , which was up by $1.3 delinquency rate fell from a year earlier for the first time in six months in February, indicating that mortgage performance remains strong,” Molly Boesel, principal economist for CoreLogic, said in a statement. “The The foreclosure process affected only 0.3%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2022

Lakeview Trust 2022-EBO 2 involves a pool of 2,063 FHA-backed loans with an unpaid principal balance (UPB) of $405.2 Key to EBO offerings is the fact that the FHA guarantees 100% of the principal balance on the loans it insures. million, with all the loans deemed delinquent. In total, 99.3% are in active foreclosure.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

At the end of March, Rithm had $587 billion in unpaid principal balance, relatively unchanged from the end of December and up 15% year over year. Chief financial officer Nick Santoro told analysts the company had a “strong momentum” on non-agency products and home equity. million in pretax income. This is not a race to get bigger.

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Keeping Current Matters

MAY 20, 2021

The level of equity homeowners have is at an all-time high. Those with a mortgage are seeing their equity skyrocket too. Every time real estate values increase, homeowners get a dollar-for-dollar gain in their home equity. Home Equity Report from ATTOM Data Solutions : “17.8 According to the U.S. That was up from 30.2

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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.” Other examples include the introduction in 2015 of the life-expectancy set aside (LESA) account and the 2017 principal limit factor changes. In 2023, it has increased to 23.6%. In 2009, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Additionally, its return on tangible common equity rose to 14.5% The company has started the year with excellent momentum, including return on tangible common equity rising to 14.5%,” Chairman and CEO Jay Bray said in a statement. billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB). in Q1 2024, up from 12.5% in the fourth quarter of 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Leaning on education Shannon Robinson Shannon Robinson, senior vice president of the reverse mortgage division at New American Funding (NAF), said the company remains committed to the prospect of borrower education regarding its full range of home equity products. This would go doubly in a more favorable rate environment.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Rising home prices also boosted homeowner equity levels. The average mortgage holder now has $199,000 in equity, up from $185,000 in the first quarter, but down from $207,000 at the same time last year. Strong equity positions are one element of today’s historically strong mortgage performance, the report said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Home-equity lending is on a roll this year, with the combined volume of home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs) and traditional closed-end home equity loans up 47% from January to May of 2022, compared with the same period last year.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2024

Hayes told analysts that the “higher gain-on-sale margin benefited from the reversal of the loss provision, reflecting the strong credit performance of our historical production vintages, as well as growing contributions of higher-margin home equity products.” Purchase loans comprised 72% of loanDepot’s total volume in Q2 2024.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

The company also touted its dominance in Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) and proprietary reverse mortgages, noting its 37% share of the total market while expressing a goal of doubling its monthly loan origination volume on a dollar amount basis in the months ahead.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

The assets have “a projected unpaid principal balance of approximately $3 billion,” Onity announced in its Q2 report. The assets at the heart of the agreement are already subserviced by PHH Mortgage , itself a subsidiary of Onity and the parent company of Liberty. The company intends to issue $51.7

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