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Short Takes: A Buyer for Luxury Mortgage / Founded by David Adamo / Keeping an Eye on the 10-Year / PennyMac’s $100M Expense / SFA Has a New Research Chief

November 12, 2019
Paul Muolo

Luxury Mortgage was founded in 1996 and is currently headed by CEO David Adamo. Years ago, there was a company with a similar name headed by Michael Covino…


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Starwood REIT Inks Deal to Buy Non-Agency Lender

November 12, 2019
Paul Muolo
Starwood is coming off a strong quarter in which the REIT earned $140.4 million. -
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REIT Sees Opportunity in Non-Agency Multifamily MBS

November 12, 2019
Brandon Ivey

REIT CEO Ivan Kaufman said Arbor developed the program in response to concerns that the Federal Housing Finance Agency was going to reduce the cap on how much multifamily volume the GSEs are allowed to acquire…


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Kinder, Gentler FHA FCA Enforcement? Don’t Buy the Sizzle, Attorneys Warn

November 12, 2019
George Brooks

Currently, depository institutions account for only 14% of direct FHA lending compared with 45% in 2010.


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Jumbo Production Improves but Not as Much as the Overall Market

November 12, 2019
Brandon Ivey

Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase ranked first, second and third, respectively, among jumbo producers in the third quarter…


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Short Takes: GSE Stock Offering: Plotting Strategy / The Keys to the Kingdom / Don’t Defy ‘The Base’ / Impac Shares Suffered / Realogy Too / A Huge PR Hire for Wells

November 11, 2019
Paul Muolo

The U.S. Treasury Department – the owner of Fannie/Freddie senior preferred – is the entity that owns the keys to the ownership kingdom…


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With Originations Booming, Better.com Promises to Hire 5,000 Military Vets

November 11, 2019
George Brooks

Better.com was founded in 2016 as Better Mortgage with an emphasis on loan origination technology and non-commissioned loan consultants. A few months back, the lender secured $160 million of additional financing.


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SEC Seeks to Boost ‘Registered’ Non-Agency MBS Deals

November 11, 2019
Brandon Ivey

Before the financial crisis, the “overwhelming majority” of non-agency MBS fell into the publicly registered category. But after the SEC issued wide-ranging changes to disclosure requirements in 2014, there has been no public issue of non-agency MBS whatsoever…


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Ginnie Sets New Record for Monthly MBS Issuance

November 11, 2019
John Bancroft

October was also unusual because the flow of VA loans into Ginnie MBS exceeded the intake of FHA loans. That’s the first month of VA supremacy over FHA since the beginning of 2017 and perhaps in Ginnie’s history.


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Strong Third Quarter Results for Nation’s Sole Publicly Traded Loan Broker

November 8, 2019
Paul Muolo

At Sept. 30, the Charlotte-based nonbank listed cash and “cash equivalents” on its balance sheet of $50.5 million, half the figure published at Dec. 31.


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