Appraisers Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Mortgage rates will climb as they have done for years during the last quarter of the year. After the lenders and mortgage loan officers return from The South Pacific Islands and Bora, Bora for their Christmas vacations. It will be time again to create a pipeline again of mortgage work in the first quarter of 2024.

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Mckinsey and Company

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Here’s a playbook for banks looking to compete—and collaborate—with mortgage brokers in a changing market.

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Appraisers Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Per the Mortgage Bankers Association, the loan application volume is at another low point in our history forcing many appraisers to retire.

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Appraisers Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Many of the smaller local banks who used to order appraisals directly are now switching to AMCs and firing most of their mortgage processors due to the low volume. It’s getting harder and harder to find non AMC mortgage work. Is anyone else seeing this trend?

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Business Wire M&A

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #corelogic--CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, has acquired Roostify, a leading digital mortgage technology provider.

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Appraisers Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Per the Mortgage Bankers Association, the loan application volume is at another low point in our history forcing many appraisers to retire.

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Law 360 M&A

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

said Thursday that it has raised its stake in two mortgage companies aimed at retired borrowers to 100%. Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Ltd.

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Appraisers Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Per the Mortgage Bankers Association, the loan application volume is at another low point in our history forcing many appraisers to retire.

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Appraisers Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Per the Mortgage Bankers Association, the loan application volume is at another low point in our history forcing many appraisers to retire.

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Appraisers Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Same thing for mortgage loans though, these monolithic monopolized industries manufacture a need when there was really not that much need in the first place. We need to take a big step back from all of this because under current conditions they will literally never find a cure for anything ever again.

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Benchmark Report

MARCH 3, 2022

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic rattled the worldwide mortgage market. However, new mortgage lending has remained on an upward trajectory since the second half of 2020. The total number of closed-end mortgage originations jumped from 8.3 The total number of closed-end mortgage originations jumped from 8.3

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Appraisers Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Per the Mortgage Bankers Association, the loan application volume is at another low point in our history forcing many appraisers to retire.

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Appraisers Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Per the Mortgage Bankers Association, the loan application volume is at another low point in our history forcing many appraisers to retire.

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Henry Horne

MAY 11, 2022

While it is not exactly clear when the housing market will come down, it is as good a time as any to jog our memories on the mortgage interest … Keep Reading. The post Changes to the mortgage interest deduction appeared first on Henry+Horne.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 12, 2024

The research design causally links BAPCPA to an expansion of credit supply that directly funded the mortgages most exposed to default in the GFC. more…)

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 14, 2023

s multi-billion 2007 subprime mortgage-backed security offering – Soundview Home Loan Trust 2007-OPT1 – will soon be eligible to receive payment from the SEC’s $153.7 The loans allegedly deviated so much from RBS’s underwriting guidelines that about 30% should have been excluded from the mortgage-backed security offering entirely.

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Appraisers Blog

JUNE 16, 2023

Better Mortgage is finally no more. Now moving to a London based acquisition company. They were paying the VA rates and using full service appraisal traditional ordering direct methods. However, they were also dealing with innovative approaches that were not tried and true on their creative financing and purchasing assistance side.

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Business Wire M&A

APRIL 3, 2023

(NASDAQ: SOFI), a member-centric, one-stop shop for digital financial services that helps members borrow, save, spend, invest and protect their money, announced that it has acquired Wyndham Capital Mortgage, a leading fintech mortgage lender in an all cash transaction.

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Benzinga

JUNE 24, 2022

Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS ) extends its reach in Britain's housing market with the acquisition of specialist lender Kensington Mortgage Company for 2.3 billion pounds ($2.8 billion), reported Reuters. Kensington is being sold by its private equity owners, Blackstone Inc (NYSE: BX ) and Sixth Street. The deal would.

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Appraisers Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

The CFPB, FHFA, FRB and everyone else running this country enjoy playing Black Box Casino Games with tge $12 Trillion Residential Mortgage Market. In reply to Baggins.

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Appraisers Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I like to coin the issue as ‘rate shock’ People will eventually get over it and face the hard realities that they need to save more, borrow less, and lead a more thrifty lifestyle if they want to make a play at a mortgage loan. Far fewer people are on track to actually one day fully own their home.)

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Appraisers Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I think your take on the mortgage lending pipeline is likely accurate. Mortgage lending is a somewhat unique industry this way, with the flick of a pen, press of a button, and drop in the rate, we exist in an industry where the volume of participation can be readily manipulated.

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Law 360 M&A

JULY 13, 2023

AG Mortgage Investment Trust Inc., said on Thursday that it had submitted a competing offer to acquire fellow REIT Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corp. a real estate investment trust managed by Angelo Gordon & Co., per share, following an announcement that WMC would merge with Terra Property Trust Inc.

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Appraisers Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The mortgage rates have destroyed refinancing and most of home sales in my market. I primarily do VA, hard money bank work, private appraisals, and most of that has dried up. My total volume is down almost 55%. I’ll ride this out with my side gig until the new disasterous 1004 is rolled out.

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Law 360 M&A

OCTOBER 2, 2023

to purchase its mortgage services business and affiliated companies for roughly $720 million in a deal built by three firms. New York City-based asset management firm Rithm Capital Corp. announced Monday it has entered into an agreement with financial record keeper Computershare Ltd.

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Law 360 M&A

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As the residential mortgage market continues to consolidate due to interest rate increases and low housing volume, buyers and sellers should pay attention to a number of compliance considerations ranging from fair lending laws to employee classification, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.

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Financial Analyst Insider

MAY 3, 2022

The post Buying a Rental Property with a Mortgage appeared first on Financial Analyst Insider. Real estate is always a good investment, and that’s especially true in today’s competitive housing market. There are simply more people looking for housing than.

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Benzinga

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amerant Mortgage, LLC , a subsidiary of Amerant Bank , the largest community bank headquartered in Florida, and F&B Financial Group, a residential mortgage banking firm headquartered in St. With a mission to support the growing demand for retail mortgages in St. Coral Gables, FL, Feb.

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Appraisers Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

I have a question for the Federal Mortgage Regulators. I’m doing an appraisal now where its been determined that the lot was not legally split, thus the county has confirmed its illegal. Being illegal, NO permits for development could have been or were ever issued!

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Law 360 M&A

APRIL 3, 2023

A shareholder said in a class action filed in Delaware Chancery Court that a special purpose acquisition company hid costs that would have lowered the value of shares in its 2021 merger with United Wholesale Mortgage.

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Law 360 M&A

JUNE 21, 2023

Bluestep Bank AB said Wednesday that it has agreed to buy a specialist mortgage lender and refinancing services provider for 1 billion Norwegian krone ($93 million), to bolster its financial presence in the Nordic country.

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Law 360 M&A

MARCH 13, 2023

A special purpose acquisition company's investor says in Delaware Chancery Court that the SPAC's managers misled shareholders about a $16 billion merger with United Wholesale Mortgage so that they could reap a return from what turned out to be an "abysmal" deal.

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Benzinga

JANUARY 25, 2023

Brown looks to be correct, as the executive’s predictions came just days before news broke of a multi-billion dollar consolidation deal in the depressed mortgage industry. What Happened: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

email i get with updates from CFPB – I’ll have to read up on it CONTACT: Office of Communications press@cfpb.gov CFPB Takes Action to Stop Illegal Junk Fees in Mortgage Servicing Homeowners forced to pay for “services” that were prohibited or unauthorized 0

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Law 360 M&A

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan of First Guaranty Mortgage Corp., a home loan originator and servicer, received approval Monday in Delaware after the debtor negotiated several last-minute agreements with parties to the case to resolve multiple objections.

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Appraisers Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

Unfortunately, supported or not, the GSEs have concluded that in many market segments, the implemented data collection and automated valuation processes are more reliable to assist in the mortgage lending risk decision than appraiser submitted appraisal reports. Otherwise, our mortgage-clients are moving on without us!

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

Mortgage giant Fannie Mae and her twin, Freddie Mac, have a message for the State of Maryland: Kindly disintegrate.

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