HomeBridge Financial Services this week agreed to buy the assets of Prospect Mortgage, marking one of the largest acquisitions of the year and stoking the hopes of investment bankers that more deals may lay ahead. But HomeBridge’s purchase of Prospect could turn out to be an anomaly. According to HomeBridge CEO Peter Norden, the two parties had been talking on and off about combining forces for roughly five years. For Norden, the combination of the two nonbanks – both privately held – is...
The $185.0 million settlement Wells Fargo agreed to in early September regarding retail banking sales practices has impacted the lender’s mortgage operations, according to bank officials. Timothy Sloan, Wells’ president and CEO, said mortgage referral activity declined significantly after the settlement was announced. “Mortgage referrals from retail banking, which account for 10.0 percent of our year-to-date mortgage originations, were down 24.0 percent from August to September,” he said during Wells’ recent earnings call. Sloan noted...
A CID recipient could not disclose its receipt of such a demand to counterparties under financing agreements, loan sales agreements, and purchase and sale agreements, which routinely require such disclosures.
Roughly $4.0 billion, or 72.7 percent, of Nationstar's production came through its consumer direct channel. Purchase loans represented 24 percent of originations.
At the recent annual convention of the Mortgage Bankers Association, trade group chief Dave Stevens said originators are being discouraged from lending to some first-time homebuyers.
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