Officials at Stonegate Mortgage suggest that the nonbank is primed for growth with plans to acquire a number of small originators that focus on purchase-mortgage production. Stonegate completed its initial public offering of stock in October and raised more than $220 million in equity capital this year, including $124 million from the IPO. Stonegate refers to its growth strategy as “retail tuck-in acquisitions.” The nonbank recently hired a management team to oversee the acquisition of lenders ...
With mortgage origination volume dropping sharply and gain-on-sale margins shrinking, it’s not surprising that the biggest downturn in mortgage-banking income during the third quarter came from production-related activities rather than servicing. A new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of earnings shows that 10 major lenders reported a total of $1.66 billion in production-related income during the third quarter of 2013. That was down a whopping 62.5 percent from the second quarter. Total mortgage [Includes one data chart]
Vantage Production LLC is trying to build compliance, suitability and accountability into the mortgage sales process – things that can help lenders comply with the daunting qualified-mortgage rule as they streamline their sales and marketing processes. The vendor says its Vantage Integrated Production (VIP), an enterprise-level customer-relationship management platform, enhances loan-officer productivity and increases sales while providing corporate control of compliance. This software-as-a-service ...
Many of the big brand names in the mortgage industry have backpedaled from the correspondent and broker market, but a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of loan-level Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac data reveals a very deep and diverse group of loan aggregators still remains in the market. During the first nine months of 2013, there were 512 different companies that sold mortgages to the government-sponsored enterprises that had been originated by loan correspondents of mortgage brokers. Some 324 of ... [Includes data chart]
Mortgage brokers accounted for 9.6 percent of all loans originated in the the third quarter, one of the lowest readings ever, according to exclusive survey figures from Inside Mortgage Finance.
Tom Popik, research director of Campbell Surveys, said buyers have a number of incentives to pay with cash. “You get about a 10 percent discount on the purchase price,” he noted.
The purchase mortgage share of originations is expected to increase significantly, from 30 percent in 2012 to 79 percent in 2015, according to Freddie Mac.
Due-diligence firms, which had hoped to prosper with the return of non-agency jumbo lending, have shown little growth in the non-agency space during the second half of the year.
RFC is privately held. One of its top executives is Barry Habib, a well-known mortgage trainer who has worked at GMAC Mortgage and other shops during his career.
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