Tag: Mortgages
Homestar Financial Throws In The Towel
And Another One Bites The Dust! Homestar Financial Shuts Down Amidst Mortgage Volatility Georgia based Homestar Financial announced this week that it is shutting down. The company blames rising mortgage rates and massive volume decrease. Additionally, they are also blaming the market compression for the closure. A Homestar Financial LO posted on Facebook: Please pray…
Mortgage Applications Plunge To A 28-Year Low
Mortgage Lenders And Brokers Are Feeling The Pain As Mortgage Applications Plunge To A 28-Year Low Mortgage applications plunge to 1995 levels. The Mortgage Bankers Association says that lenders and brokers have witnessed a significant decline of 6.9% from the previous week. This is worst week for originations since 1995. The MBA’s Market Composite Index…
Bank of America Has Prevailed In Ghetto Loans Lawsuit
Bank of America Has Prevailed In The Cook County Ghetto Loans Lawsuit As 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Rules In It’s Favor Bank of America has prevailed in a ghetto loans lawsuit brought against it by Cook County, Illinois. Cook County sued the bank alleging predatory mortgage loans to Black and Hispanic borrowers in the Chicago…
Rocket Mortgage Is Offering A Third Round Of Voluntary Buyouts
Rocket Mortgage Is Offering 12 and 24 Weeks Of Pay In A Third Round Of Voluntary Buyout Offers Rocket Mortgage is offering another round of buyouts to its employees. The buyout follows two rounds from last year. Those buy outs resulted in a workforce reduction of about 30% last year. Rocket is offering between 12…
Dan Gilbert Insider Trading Accusations Rattle Rocket Mortgage
Accusations Of Dan Gilbert Insider Trading Rattle Rocket Mortgage. Recent Court Ruling Is Sending Senior Executives Into A Frenzy A federal judge in Detroit has green-lighted the continuation of a class action lawsuit against Rocket Companies, Rocket Holdings, Inc., chairman Dan Gilbert and Rocket CEO Jay Farner. The suit revolves around accusations of Dan Gilbert…
Is Dan Gilbert Putting Rocket Mortgage On The Auction Block?
Is Dan Gilbert Planning On Selling Rocket Mortgage Amid Plummeting Originations, Layoffs And Talks Of “Industry Consolidations”? There is no doubt that the past year was horrible for Dan Gilbert and Rocket Mortgage. The company saw profits plummet faster than contestants on a Japanese game show. Seriously, Rocket Mortgage has seen their profits plummet 90%…
Is Rocket Mortgage CFO Brian Brown Blowing Smoke?
Is Rocket Mortgage CFO Brian Brown Blowing Smoke To Make Rocket Mortgage Look More Profitable Than It Is? Rocket Mortgage CFO Brian Brown says first-time homebuyers will drive the housing market in 2023. Brown made his prediction during a one-on-one conversation with Fitch Ratings Director Shampa Bhattacharya. Brown speculated that first-time home buyers will drive…
New American Funding Lays Off 240 Employees
Broker Solutions Incorporated Doing Business as New American Funding Lays Off 240 Employees California-based New American Funding (NAF) said Tuesday it has reduced its workforce by about 240 positions this week. It had previously laid off employees in August. Broker Solutions Incorporated doing business as New American Funding is a family-owned company. Broker Solutions started…
Homepoint Has Finally Admitted It Has Shed 75% Of It’s Workforce
Homepoint Has Finally Admitted That It Shed Over 3,000 Employees. Homepoint has finally admitted that it has shrunk its workforce. The company says it’s workforce of 4,000 workers in summer of 2021 down to 1,000. The wholesale lender laid off 913 employees according to WARN notices filed in Arizona, Florida, Michigan and Texas. Homepoint has…
Homepoint Has Laid Off 100+ Employees
Homepoint Has Laid Off 100+ Employees. Company Expects To Save $100 Million Per Year With Layoffs Homepoint has laid off more than 100 employees this week. The company has been taking it to the gut with its price war with UWM. The company confirmed the layoffs on Wednesday and Thursday. They say the layoffs are…
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