Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

has been in business for more than 50 years and offers regulatory compliant default, rental and real estate-owned (REO) residential and commercial property preservation services. It also says that Five Brothers will be integrated into MCS to offer property preservation, maintenance and renovation services.

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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. recently rebranded as Rithm Capital ).

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Annaly has $75 billion in assets invested across its agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), residential credit and MSR strategies. It has built an MSR platform with 608,000 loans, representing $192 billion in unpaid principal value (UPB) and $2.8 Terms of the deal were not disclosed. billion in market value as of June 30.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This positions our associates to adapt and thrive in the market from both a business growth and technology innovation standpoint,” Matthew Mullin, principal and founder of The Mullin Blankfeld Group, said in a statement. “It It ranked 8th for residential sales volume, with a total of $46,687,375. 3 rank in Nevada by that measure.

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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

JULY 28, 2023

billion of single-family residential loans at a discount, according to the outlet. Banc of California and PacWest announced on Tuesday an all-stock merger with a $400 million equity raise from Warburg Pincus and Centerbridge Partners to create a bank with $36 billion in assets. The bank entered into an agreement to buy $1.8

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

According to the BofA report, there are 833,268 mortgages originated in the affected regions and securitized into residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), totaling $96 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB). billion, a total that includes residential and commercial properties. billion to $47.5

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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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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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We locked in rates probably 25% more during that same period,” said Jon Overfelt, director of sales and principal at American Security Mortgage Corp. “We There is a lot more inquiry for home equity line credit. We’ve already seen there is more of a focus on home equity lines of credit and cash out refinances.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Fitch noted that mortgage insurance does not cover claims principally caused by physical damage, including wildfires, floods or other natural disasters, but is designed to protect against borrower credit default. Exposure levels for other loan types, including prime mortgages and home equity loans, were less than 1%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

The value of all residential real estate worldwide is approximately $200 trillion. The numbers are staggering so it is no surprise that residential proptech is a heady market, capturing the imagination of entrepreneurs and institutions alike. Principal among these are: Invested capital “requires” the highest return. exceeds $1.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

. “… While the reference pool’s weighted average LTV and combined LTV represent significant borrower equity and provide a margin of safety against potential home-price declines, both leverage ratios are somewhat higher than most of the recent non-agency prime RMBS transactions that KBRA has rated. billion.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Incenter completed a dozen bulk sales transactions in January involving MSRs for agency-backed loan pools that together had a total unpaid principal balance of $113.2 In fact, five of the deals involved MSRs pegged to loan pools that exceeded $10 billion in unpaid principal balance. Another private-equity player in the MSR space is St.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

But unlike financing with a traditional mortgage, monthly principal and interest payments are not required on the loan, so long as the homeowner keeps up to date with real estate taxes, homeowners’ insurance and property maintenance. The HECM for Purchase is not a refinancing tool; it is not akin to a Home Equity Line of Credit ( HELOC ).

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Keeping Current Matters

JANUARY 13, 2021

Yanling Mayer, Principal Economist at CoreLogic , recently revealed : “A distributional analysis of forborne loans’ payment status reveals that more than one third (39.1%) of all forborne loans are now 150+ days behind payment, while as many as 1-in-4 (25.5%) are 180+ days past due.”. Though 29.4% What are the experts saying? Bottom Line.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Jon Overfelt, director of sales and principal at American Security Mortgage Corp. Home equity is really a no-brainer today. Brady Thomas , branch manager at American Pacific Mortgage Home equity products will continue to be attractive options for homeowners looking for specific needs.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Principal and Chair, Financial Instituions Regulatory Practice Group. SVP, Residential Servicing Division. Bay Equity Home Loans. Equity Prime Mortgage. Courtney Poulos. Broker/Owner; Co-Founder. ACME Real Estate; ACME Real Estate Florida. Cristy Ward. Chief Strategy Officer. Mortgage Connect. Daniella Casseres.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

. “Capital Markets essentially shut down during different periods, but we managed to grow or book value by 5% during 2022 to generate a good return on equity of 15%.” The partnership will accelerate GreeBarn’s strategy of building a vertically integrated and diversified commercial real estate debt and equity business.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Proposition 19 eliminated the ability of homeowners to transfer primary residential properties to their children or grandchildren without the property’s tax assessment resetting to market value if the property is being used as a rental house or second home.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Michael Warden , managing principal and CEO of Invictus Capital Partners — one of the largest players in the nonqualified mortgage (or private-label) securitization space via Verus Securitization Trust — is also quite bullish on the future of private capital in the mortgage market. billion, up 81% from the same month last year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The executive spoke during a panel at the 8th Annual Residential Mortgage Servicing Rights Forum, a conference held in Manhattan on November 14 and 15. Of those issuers already compliant with RBCR, many have ample equity capital to support the acquisition of MSRs that may come on the market.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

UWM, the nation’s largest wholesale lender, sold MSR on loans with an aggregate unpaid principal balance of about $56.6 billion in the unpaid principal balance of MSRs as of March 31, 2022 compared to $221 billion exactly a year earlier. million), nonbank mortgage lender and servicer New Residential Investment Corp. ($690

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Importantly, the association said that the recent development of Ginnie Maes new, complementary Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM )-backed Securities ( HMBS ) product known as HMBS 2.0 As the white paper explains, FHA-insured forward mortgages require servicer advances of monthly scheduled principal and interest.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2022

billion in equity as of the second quarter, plus technology that can close loans faster than most competitors, aggressive pricing is a “multibillion dollar decision investment,” as Ishbia put it. His tangible net worth ratio (a proxy of how much equity you have relative to your total assets) is just under 30%.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

About $180 billion in residential bulk MSR assets were brought to market just in the month of January, “and February will be another huge month as well,” according to Michael Carnes, managing director of the MSR valuation group for New York-based Mortgage Industry Advisory Corporation (MIAC). You just never know. billion.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Name Job Title Company Name Agnes Standowicz Senior Vice President and Head of Underwriting United Wholesale Mortgage Alayna Gardner Director of Sales and Marketing LodeStar Software Solutions Ali Haralson President Auction.com Amanda Tucker Chief Risk and Compliance Officer Atlantic Bay Mortgage Company Amy Gromowski Executive of Science and Analytics (..)

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2021

The sale is expected to reduce Mr. Cooper’s overall servicing portfolio by $16 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB), and will also decrease its balance sheet by approximately $5 billion in Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) servicing rights (MSRs) and other unspecified assets.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

From NAR : “In essence, the residential real estate market was frozen in November, resembling the sales activity seen during the COVID-19 economic lockdowns in 2020,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. I hear you; let’s dive deeper into today’s report.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

In the meantime, these companies could market other products, such as home equity loans, to borrowers in these portfolios. Rate declines will impact companies differently based on their business model,” said Craig Freel, partner and co-chief investment officer at Rice Park Capital Management , an investor in residential mortgage assets.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2023

Historic housing shortage The unprecedented rate hikes over the past 12 months have exacerbated a historic housing shortage while destabilizing the residential mortgage market. Today, refinances (including cash-out home equity loans) have slowed to a 22-year low of approximately 10% of current loans originated.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Prestwick is marketing four separate deals, two in partnership with MCT, valued in total at $2 billion — which together also feature MSRs for single-family residential loan pools from all three agencies. Ginnie guarantees only the principal and interest payments to purchasers of its bonds, which are sold worldwide.

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

MARCH 13, 2025

During the housing bubble, many homeowners borrowed heavily against their perceived home equity - jokingly calling it the “Home ATM” - and this contributed to the subsequent housing bust, since so many homeowners had negative equity in their homes when house prices declined. million homes or 2% of all mortgaged properties.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Net issuance in MBS represents new securities issued less the decline in outstanding securities due to principal paydowns or prepayments. RMBS sector The origination downturn and rate volatility in 2023 negatively impacted the private-label residential mortgage-backed securitization (RMBS) market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2021

Blend became the first digital lending platform approved for Freddie Mac’s asset and income modeler program, AIM for Assets, in August 2019, and has reportedly already prepared its systems for the new Uniform Residential Loan Application (URLA) transition set for March. billion. .

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Net issuance represents new securities issued less the decline in outstanding securities due to principal paydowns or prepayments. billion for commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and only $500 million for nonagency residential MBS. Last year, net agency MBS issuance dropped to $530 billion. trillion.”

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