Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

Lewisville, Texas-based property services company MCS announced last week that it acquired Five Brothers Asset Management Solutions , a deal which brings MCS into the reverse mortgage industry for the first time, according to an announcement by the company. Five Brothers, headquartered in Warren, Mich.,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Nations Direct Mortgage, a residential lender in both the retail and wholesale channels, on Wednesday announced appointing Jack O’Brien as its senior vice president and national sales director. Aimee Quinn, president of Nations Direct Mortgage, said his experience will be put toward expansion across the U.S. .

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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 1, 2022

were “combination modifications,” where interest rate reductions and term extensions are applied to a loan to help bring down a borrowers mortgage payment. of the loans modified included a principal deferral, the OCC said. million first-lien residential mortgages with $2.6 Of the modifications completed, the OCC said 97.4%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Newrez has launched a new joint venture mortgage company, Carnegie Mortgage Partners , in collaboration with a top Keller Williams franchise network in Bergen County, New Jersey, the lender announced on Monday. The joint venture mortgage company is led by Margaret Bernabei, a former branch manager at a CrossCountry Mortgage outpost.

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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, according to the KBW analysts.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates, now around 6.5%, are cooling down the housing market and triggering mass layoffs in the mortgage and real estate industries. Mortgage rates have nearly doubled to around 6.5% Will Savage, an LO at PMC Mortgage. Before the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by 0.75

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

Roughly eight months after acquiring PacWest Bancorp in a rescue deal , Banc of California is selling roughly $2 billion in business-purpose residential mortgage loans, according to Bloomberg. billion of single-family residential loans at a discount. The bank entered into an agreement to buy $1.8

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

JPMorgan Chase will buy nearly $2 billion worth of mortgages to grease Banc of California ‘s purchase of PacWest Bancorp , Bloomberg reported. billion of single-family residential loans at a discount, according to the outlet. The bank entered into an agreement to buy $1.8 Banc of California and JPMorgan declined to comment.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

After hitting a 23-year high of 8% in October, mortgage rates have cooled down to the lowest levels since July. The mortgage rate dip is welcome news for the housing market, but loan originators and industry executives emphasized that rates need to decline further and remain stable to reinvigorate buyers’ demand.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In essence, the residential real estate market was frozen in November, resembling the sales activity seen during the COVID-19 economic lockdowns in 2020,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. However, in recent weeks, mortgage rates have declined and currently hover around 6.3%.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2022

a real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Mill Valley California that has residential operations focused on nonagency jumbo loans, recently reported a second-quarter 2022 net loss of $100 million, after recording a net gain of $31 million in the prior quarter. Likewise, Atlanta-based A ngel Oak Mortgage Inc. , The Angel Oak Cos.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

On the heels of the central bank’s announcement to raise the federal funds rate by 50 basis points to 4.25%-4.50% on Wednesday, most economists and industry experts were on the same page about the housing outlook and which direction mortgage rates would be headed. . Realtor.com expects mortgage rates to reach 7.1% by the year-end.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2024

The government mortgage bond guarantor incorporated expanded its payment default status (PDS) reporting, including loan default information, any mitigation actions taken and the timing of these actions. Additionally, subservicers that collaborate with Ginnie Mae issuers will be subject to this mandate, according to National Mortgage News.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

After nearly two years of trudging through a frozen housing market , the consensus among mortgage professionals is that the worst of it is over. The spread between the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage and the 10-year Treasury yield has narrowed after sitting at over 300 basis points, compared to the historic norm of 150 bps.

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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

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). Mr. Cooper estimates it will hold about $132 billion in mortgages at 6% or higher once the acquisition is finalized.

Mortgages 458

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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

AUGUST 14, 2024

According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF), SPS was the 20th-largest U.S. primary mortgage servicer at the end of June, handling $166.7 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB). mortgage unit that focused on “to-be-announced” (TBA) trading. In the U.S., Credit Suisse owns Select Portfolio Servicing (SPS).

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2022

Fannie Mae has launched its fourth reperforming-loan sale of the year — an offering of 6,130 loans with an unpaid principal balance of $997 million. A reperforming loan is a mortgage that has been or is currently delinquent but has been reperforming for a period of time. million in unpaid principal balance; pool 2 is at $342.5

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In its annual Mortgage Fraud Report, CoreLogic found that the risk of mortgage fraud for the 12 months ending June 2020 decreased 26.3% Investment loan applications are showing a higher risk because real estate investors have a profit motivation for their activity,” said Bridget Berg, Principal, Fraud Solutions at CoreLogic.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Let’s face it: joint ventures (JVs) and affiliated business arrangements (ABAs) are all the rage in the residential real estate space right now. In fact, there aren’t many mortgage lenders, builders or real estate brokerages that haven’t at least fleetingly entertained the notion. And why not?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

California-based loanDepot on Monday announced it has closed a $300 million offering of notes backed by a revolving warehouse line of credit and secured by mortgages. It follows other strategies to strengthen its financial position, including selling mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) and extending debt.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

million in aggregate principal amount available for 30 days to cover over-allotments. The company said the proceeds of the debt offering are expected to fund, among other things, the firm’s residential lending business, the acquisition of mortgage-backed securities (MBS), and strategic acquisitions and investments.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is projected to be a record year for consolidation among mortgage lenders, largely due to the dramatic shift from a refinance boom to a purchase mortgage market and the total origination volume, which has shrunk to about half the size from 2021. Most recently, Guild Mortgage expressed interest in acquisitions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

Mortgage rates, which climbed upward one day and went down the next in the wake of the recent wave of bank failures, will continue to be volatile before it stabilizes, industry watchers said. “The As that uncertainty drains away, mortgage rates will have smaller day-to-day swings.” What does it mean for buyers, sellers?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

billion secured by single-family mortgage reference loan pools valued in total at $121.5 billion note backed by a reference loan pool of 140,950 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $42.9 billion note against a reference pool of 143,889 single-family mortgages valued at about $45 billion. .

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2022

billion note backed by a reference loan pool of 118,055 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $35.4 billion secured by single-family mortgage reference loan pools valued in total at $156.9 billion note against a reference pool of 143,889 single-family mortgages valued at about $45 billion.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Rocket Mortgage has struck a deal to handle the servicing and recapturing activities for a portion of the mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) of real estate investment trust Annaly Capital Management , the companies announced on Tuesday. The nation’s largest mortgage lender serviced 2.6 Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Closing Principal Loans Finance 434

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Last year, fast-rising rates and related volatility, coupled with liquidity challenges in the bank and nonbank sectors, high home prices and a shortage of housing inventory all worked together to suppress mortgage originations and the secondary market outlets for those loans as well. trillion portfolio of MBS.

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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. In 2021, mortgage originations hit a record high of $4.4 Today, three of four mortgage loans are issued by independent mortgage companies.

Banks 418

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

Rumors this week that regulators would increase residential mortgage capital requirements for larger depositary banks, far exceeding international standards under the Basel III rules, have raised alarms for industry executives, analysts and trade groups. That’s 20 basis points higher than the international standard.

Mortgages 370

Mortgages Banks Marketing Residential 370

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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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

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. In those offering, 100% of the FHA loans involved are delinquent — with about a quarter of the mortgages in each deal in active foreclosure. In total, 99.3%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The new credit risk transfer (CRT) offering, STACR 2022-DNA7, outlined in a presale report by Kroll Bond Rating Agency , involves a $616 million note offering backed by a reference loan pool of 69,144 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $19.9 million single-family mortgages.

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