Independent mortgage banks (IMBs) and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks reported a pre-tax net profit of $693 on each loan they originated in the second quarter of 2024, an increase from the reported loss of $645 per loan in the first quarter of 2024, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) newly released Quarterly Mortgage Bankers Performance Report.
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Mortgage applications decreased 10.1 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Applications Survey for the week ending August 16, 2024.
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CRMnow, a customer relationship management (CRM) system built from the ground up for the mortgage industry, completed a successful integration between Nextwave CRM and Modex, a solutions-driven mortgage talent solution, creating a combined technology platform facilitating a streamlined approach to recruiting for wholesale and retail lenders.
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Informative Research, a technology platform that delivers data-driven solutions to the lending community, announced the appointment of Steve Schulz as the new executive vice president of product management. This strategic addition highlights Informative Research’s commitment to driving innovation and enhancing its product offerings to better serve its clients.
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LERETA, a national provider of real estate tax and flood services for mortgage servicers, announced a strategic relationship with CMG Financial (CMG), a privately-held mortgage banking firm based in San Ramon, CA, to manage real estate taxes and flood insurance for CMG’s servicing portfolio.
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Argyle, a platform providing real-time income and employment verifications for some of the largest lenders in the United States, is now an approved third-party service provider supporting Freddie Mac’s Loan Product Advisor® (LPA℠) asset and income modeler (AIM), a solution that simplifies the mortgage underwriting process for lenders. Argyle’s verification of income and employment (VOIE) solution, which includes reports, pay stubs and W-2s, saves lenders 5–7 days per loan and 60–80% in costs compared to legacy VOIE providers.
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Ralph Armenta, a seasoned mortgage, secondary and capital markets, and fintech leader, has joined Incenter Lender Services (Incenter) as President, Lending-in-a-Box. Incenter is a family of companies that collaborate on new solutions to improve lenders’ and depositories’ financial and operational performance, which clients can leverage on an “as-needed” basis to increase revenues without additional fixed costs.
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The delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties increased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 3.97 percent of all loans outstanding at the end of the second quarter of 2024, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) National Delinquency Survey.
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Mortgage Capital Trading, Inc. (MCT) has been awarded a patent for the security spread commitment used in the industry’s largest mortgage asset exchange: MCT Marketplace. The security spread commitment transforms loan auctions, turning shadow bids into executable prices. Loan buyers and sellers use the security spread commitment to transact before counterparty approval, vastly increasing liquidity while giving sellers confidence in the price execution of new buyers.
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In 2023, 2,520 different multifamily lenders provided a total of $246.2 billion in new mortgages for apartment buildings with five or more units, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) annual report of the multifamily lending market.
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