The CFPB has permanently banned three companies from servicing reverse mortgages. Separately, the bureau issued a proposed order against Freedom Mortgage for repeated submissions of faulty HMDA data.

The spring homebuying season ended with a thud in 2024.

Sutherland and NOVAD formed a servicing operation in 2014 to service HECMs on behalf of HUD.

The groups noted that the availability of property insurance in California is declining and prices are rising.

The CFPB issued a proposed order that would require Freedom Mortgage to pay a $3.95 million penalty for submitting “error-riddled” data under HMDA.

J-T Gaietto, chief operating officer at ConvergentDS, a firm that helps assess cyber risks, said obtaining cybersecurity insurance “isn’t the easiest thing to accomplish.”

Home prices are slowing and an expected decline in interest rates could prompt further changes in the trajectory of home prices.

Total 1-4 family mortgage servicing outstanding hit a record $14.027 trillion at the end of March. Nonbanks handled 50.2% of the total, compared to 49.6% as of the end of 2023.

Hometap started offering HEIs in 2018 and has originated 11,373 HEI contracts across 18 states with an aggregate investment amount of more than $1.1 billion, according to Morningstar.

“There have been just two months in the past decade with fewer home sales [than in May 2024]: October 2023, when mortgage rates jumped to a 23-year high, and May 2020, when the onset of the pandemic brought the housing market to a halt and home sales to a record low,” Redfin said.