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Fannie Mae Predicts Dark Days Ahead For The Housing Market
Fannie Mae Predicts Dark Days Ahead As They Predict Home Sales To Drop 16.2% By The End Of The Year Fannie Mae predicts things will get worse for the housing market and mortgage industry before it gets better. A group of economists at Fannie Mae slashed their forecast for 2022 home sales this week. Fannie Mae’s…
Homebuyers Are Canceling Purchase Deals At Record Pace
Homebuyers Are Canceling Deals At A Record Pace Due To Housing Affordability Issues Home buyers are canceling sales at record pace. Prospective homebuyers are grappling with affordability issues. However, a Redfin report states the shifting market conditions are allowing buyers to increase their bargaining power. Roughly 63,000 deal under contract fell through in July nationwide….
American Advisors Group Does Another Round Of Mass Layoffs
Reverse Mortgage Lender American Advisors Group Also Known As AAG Does Another Round Of Mass Layoffs Last Week Industry-leading reverse mortgage lender American Advisors Group aka AAG instituted a round of layoffs this week. This is the second round of mass layoffs since June. Unfortunately, AAG representatives for the company declined to comment. Current and…
Wells Fargo Pulls The Plug On Mortgage Lending
Wells Fargo Pulls The Plug On Mortgage Lending. The Bank Blames The Economy For The Move There is no other way to put it, Wells Fargo plans to severely shrink its vast mortgage empire. Employees say Wells Fargo plans to exit the mortgage entirely. The bank once churned out one of every three home loans…
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…