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Impac Mortgage Holdings Posts Ugly 2nd Quarter Results
Impac Mortgage Reports $13.5 Million Loss In Second Quarter. Company Blames Lack OF Housing Inventory Another mortgage lender is reporting taking a hit in their profit margins. Add Impac Mortgage Holdings to the list of mortgage lenders that posted a loss in the second quarter of 2022, As a result, Impac have opted to break with the…
Homepoint Takes $44M Hit In Q2 Amid Price War With UWM
Increasing Profit Margins Is The Goal Says Homepoint Management. Company Says They Are Not Afraid To Downsize Permanently Homepoint took a $44 Million loss in the second quarter of 2022. The company had already reduced costs and sold the mortgage servicing rights for loans in their servicing portfolio. The company reported that surging interest rates…
LoanDepot Is Closing It’s Wholesale Channel After $232M Loss
LoanDepot Is Closing It’s Wholesale Channel After Losing $232 Million In The Second Quarter California-based LoanDepot is closing its wholesale division amid plummeting origination volumes. The company is also seeing a widening of it’s financial losses in the second quarter. The decision to close the channel also reflects fierce competition in the broker space. It’s a…
United Wholesale Mortgage Posts 55% increase In Income In Q2
United Wholesale Mortgage Bucks Industry Trend By Posting 55% Increase In Net Income In Second Quarter United Wholesale Mortgage Holdings on Tuesday posted a net income of $215.4 million in the second quarter. This is a 55% increase from 2021. The suburban Detroit lender also posted profits on $29.9 billion in loan origination volume for…
Open Mortgage Does Another Round Of Lay Offs
Former Employees Express Shock On Social Media As Open Mortgage Performs Another Round Of Mass Lay Offs Another round of mass layoffs has struck employees at Open Mortgage. The Austin, Texas based lender did a previous round of layoffs in June. Open Mortgage Founder and CEO Scott Gordon confirmed that layoffs had taken place but…
Liberty Reverse Mortgage Has Record Losses in Q2 Says Ocwen
Ocwen Financial Owned Liberty Reverse Mortgage Has Record Losses In 2nd Quarter. Executives at Liberty Reverse Mortgage owner Ocwen Financial are worried. Why? Ocwen says the reverse mortgage unit recorded a pre-tax loss of $26 million in Q2 2022. This is in comparison to a profit of $6 million one year prior. Liberty Reverse Mortgage…
Rocket Mortgage Sees Profits Plunge In Second Quarter
Rocket Companies Says Profits For Rocket Mortgage Plunged In Second Quarter. CEO Threatens Layoffs If Things Don’t Improve Rocket Companies, the Rocket Mortgage say the mortgage company’s profits plunged in the second quarter. They claim this is due to rising interest rates and inflation. Therefore, this is dampening consumer confidence and concerns over a possible…
New American Funding Eliminates Hundreds Of Jobs
Sources Say New American Funding Eliminated Loan Officers, Processors And Underwriters In Another Lay Off Sweep Former employees say New American Funding has laid off hundreds of employees on Tuesday. New American Funding eliminated several hundred positions. The company laid off loan officers and underwriters. In addition the company also laid off processors and training…
PennyMac Financial Services Cuts Another 32 Jobs In California
PennyMac Financial services Has Cut Nearly 500 Jobs Since March Mortgage lender Pennymac Financial Services has laid off an additional 32 employees in July. PennyMac has laid off a total of 475 employees since March 1st. This is the California-based company’s third round of layoffs this year, as Pennymac had a workforce reduction of 236 employees…
Massive Wall Street Layoffs Imminent As Banking Profits Plummet
Massive Wall Street Layoffs Of Junior Bankers Is Imminent As Banking Giants See Profits Plummet Wall Street spent the past year acting like the financial bulimics they are. They spent the past year binging on bankers and now they are leaning over the world toilet ready to puke it all out. Junior bankers are predicting…