Reverse mortgage industry veteran Tane Cabe recently left his position at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp.’s reverse division to transition back into a role as a reverse mortgage broker. He joined C2 Financial’s reverse division in a move that he says helped to return him to his “roots.”RMD caught

Although the National Association of Realtors (NAR) is grateful for the White House’s focus on the nation’s affordable housing crisis, the trade group was not thrilled about remarks President Joe Biden made about real estate agent commissions.In a speech given at Stupak Community Center in Las Vegas

The PROGRESS in Lending Association released the names for its 2024 Innovations Award winners last week, including two vendors that are active in the reverse mortgage industry, according to an announcement.The organization recognized LoanPASS for its loan pricing software, which can map out forward

Last week, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) announced a settlement agreement in the Sitzer Burnett case that would take effect in July. For those who missed the declarations that this outcome will render transacting real estate almost free, protect consumers and make homeownership affordab

About 65 mortgage professionals have not transitioned from AmCap Home Loans to its acquirer, CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM), and rival New American Funding (NAF) has hired the AmCap personnel to expand its business in Texas, the lender announced last week.Industry veteran Tom Boyd became a divisional e

Like with most things in life, real estate brokerages come in a variety of shapes and size, from white-glove service firms to discount brokerages to flat-fee firms that offer al a carte services. While all types of brokerage models see different levels of success in the current real estate environme

The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) held its short-term policy interest rate steady at a range of 5.25% to 5.5% for a fifth straight meeting on Wednesday.“The Committee does not expect it will be appropriate to reduce the target range until it has gained greater confidence th

Ally Home, the residential mortgage lending arm of Ally Bank, is offering a $5,000 grant for eligible homebuyers in the select markets of Charlotte, Detroit and Philadelphia, the company announced on Tuesday. The upfront lump sum can be applied toward a down payment, closing costs or other expenses

In Tuesday’s report, the 5-unit housing permits data hit the same levels we saw in the COVID-19 recession. Once the backlog of apartments is finished, those jobs will be at risk, which traditionally means mortgage rates would fall soon after, as they have in previous economic cycles.However, this is

As the final defendant left in the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit, it appears that HomeServices of America may be left holding the bag for the vast majority of the damages in the case. On Monday, the plaintiffs filed a motion for entry of judgment in a Kansas City district court. In their motion,

As President Joe Biden prepared to give a speech on his administration’s housing priorities in Las Vegas on Tuesday, some members of the Arizona Legislature and housing advocates in the state were stunned by the decision of Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs to veto a bipartisan bill that seeks to address

Calque, a company that partners with lenders to offer non-contingent mortgages to homebuyers, has appointed Michael Bremer as CEO. Before joining Calque, Bremer (a 2020 HousingWire Insider), served as the executive vice president of enterprise operations at CoreLogic.“I am thrilled at the chance to

For many real estate brokerages and roughly 1 million Realtors, the nationwide settlement agreement that the National Association of Realtors (NAR) negotiated due to the ongoing commission lawsuits marks the end of their cooperative compensation litigation concerns, at least for the time being. But

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Housing Counseling (OHC) has made a series of updates to its Housing Counseling Program Handbook, including extensive additions, consolidations and reorganizations to a section focused on the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)

New York-based Rithm Capital has changed the compensation package of its top executive, Michael Nierenberg, by reducing his annual base salary, bonus and time-based equity award. But the company also increased the performance-based share of the total equity award.As a result, Nierenberg’s target ann

Mortgage capital markets tech firm Polly announced its application programming interface (API) integration with CoreLogic, which will enable lenders to streamline the digital mortgage process.Polly’s product and pricing engine (PPE) was built with an API-adjacent product strategy, which can create o

Fifth Third Bank, an Ohio-based regional bank, moved its origination and servicing operations to Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Mortgage Technology’s end-to-end mortgage technology ecosystem, the companies announced on Tuesday.The bank will rely on ICE’s loan origination and servicing platforms, En

Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives have voiced their concerns to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) about a pilot program that will eliminate title insurance requirements for some refinance loans purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.In a letter dated March 15, members

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