Short Takes: About That Housing Bubble / Which States? / Reserve Accounts? / Stop Moping and Start Selling / Cornerstone Completes Acquisition October 10, 2022 Paul Muolo Too much demand and not enough supply meant no housing bubble. Both those days are in the rearview...Read More
Short Takes: 4,000 Mortgage Jobs Disappear / Brokers Hiring? / LO to Broker? / loanDepot Trims Funding Lines / A New CTO for Xome October 7, 2022 Paul Muolo It appears that loan brokerage firms added jobs...Read More
Agency MBS Issuance Took It On the Chin in 3Q22 October 6, 2022 John Bancroft Rocket and UWM ranked first and second, respectively, in terms of MBS issuance through the first nine months of 2022.Read More
Short Takes: A Rate Decline / loanDepot’s Digital HELOC / Working at Home? / Takeover Bait? / Ginnie MSRs Available October 6, 2022 Paul Muolo One investment banker described loanDepot as "takeover bait"...Read More
FHA Cash-Out Refi Share Spikes to 82% October 5, 2022 John Bancroft Some 47,195 endorsements for cash-out deals were recorded by FHA in 2Q22...Read More
Applications Off 14%, a 31% Plunge in Hurricane-Ravaged Florida October 5, 2022 Paul Muolo There's no way to put lipstick on the origination carnage...Read More
Banks Boost 2Q22 MBS/ABS Held in Trading Accounts October 4, 2022 John Bancroft At midyear, bank holding companies valued their agency MBS held for trading at $219.07 billion...Read More
ARM Share Breaks Through the 12% Threshold October 3, 2022 Brandon Ivey The nation's top-three ARM lenders: Bank of America, Chase and Wells Fargo...Read More
Its Fortunes Fading, loanDepot Execs Granted Pay Raises September 30, 2022 Retention bonuses that could reach 300% of base pay also were granted...Read More
COVID Crisis Hammered MBA’s Bottom Line in FY 2021 September 30, 2022 Paul Muolo MBA's John Mechem: "The COVID pandemic forced us to move all our in-person conferences in the covered period to online"...Read More
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