William C. Morris has been named to the newly created position of executive vice president for mergers and acquisitions at Impac Mortgage Holdings Inc., Newport Beach, Calif.Mr. Morris was most recently EVP and chief financial officer of Media Arts Group, and he headed Citigroup's Middle Market Group in New York before that. Impac, a mortgage real estate investment trust, can be found online at http://www.impaccompanies.com.
Builder mortgage units saw Q1 profit slides (NVR down 17%) despite an 11% rise in new home loan applications. Overall homebuilder net income dropped, and sales incentives remain high.
Toll Brothers' purchase of Buffington Homes of Arkansas will extend its national outreach with a strong presence in northwest Arkansas, the company said.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday defended cuts to the Community Development Financial Institution Fund in the president's 2027 budget, telling the Senate Appropriations Committee that the program had pursued a "partisan wish list."
The company that the global firm is investing in owns a U.S. mortgage correspondent business and another domestic lender that does business with brokers.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finalized changes to Regulation B, which implements the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, to eliminate any liability for indirect discrimination by lenders. The change represents a major shift in how the agency polices lending discrimination.
The company will be using a simplified name and a new logo it says shows its unified business model, but its longstanding tagline will stay in place.
