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No Congress, no rate hikes: Bill Ackman’s plan to privatize the GSEs

Housing Wire

Bill Ackman, the billionaire founder of Pershing Square Capital Management , has an audacious plan to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac without congressional approval. Every sophisticated fixed-income investor will conclude that these are incredible the guarantee is rock solid. capital.

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The lean, mean (illegal?) 1099 LO machine

Housing Wire

The brokerage takes 20% but, per the source, really only offers system access (ARIVE in most cases), investor approvals and AMC access. Of course, the LO will have to shoulder most of the costs by paying their own LOA/processor, doing all marketing, eating credit report fees and more.

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Real estate newsletters: The ultimate playbook (+ 49 topic ideas & subject lines)

Housing Wire

You can also create messaging for your investor clients to inform them of possible investment opportunities. For example, your investor clients probably wont be interested in a first-time home buyers checklist, and you most likely wouldnt want to send information about 1031 exchanges to the first-time home buyers in your database.

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Is investor appetite for non-QM changing?

Housing Wire

HousingWire recently caught up with Steven Schwalb, managing partner of Angel Oak Lending, about the changes investor appetite has gone though for non-QM. HousingWire: What is the investor appetite for non-QM and how has that changed over the past few years? Do they need a pre-closing investor review? Of that volume, $6.2

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Lenders must address repurchase risk before they go bust

Housing Wire

While buyback volumes remain well below their 2022 peak, they are still elevated compared to pre- pandemic levels. The added cost pours salt in the wound for credit unions, banks, and independent mortgage bankers , who are already recording average pre-tax losses of $534 per loan origination. Whats in the cards?

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Services provider Adfitech rebrands as Mortgage Connect Risk Solutions

Housing Wire

Mortgage Connect, a nationwide services provider for lenders, institutional investors and servicers , acquired Adfitech two years ago to expand its efforts in third-party due diligence and quality control (QC). Mortgage Connect Risk Solutions is approved by each of the major credit-rating agencies.

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Ex-Zillow execs promise revolution in lending

Housing Wire

Venture capital investors including Zillow founder Spencer Rascoff and Trulia co-founder Pete Flint, believe that Tomo has the potential to topple the legion of lenders that have increased market share, invested heavily in technology and lapped up record profits in recent years. “Our history, follows a pre-seed round of $40 million.

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