Deutsche Bank has agreed to purchase nonconforming lender Chapel Funding Corp., Lake Forest, Calif., for an undisclosed sum.Chapel, whose parent company is based in New Jersey, could not be reached for comment. Its CEO is industry veteran Gordon Stockwell. Outside of California, little is known about Chapel. One warehouse executive said he thought the lender was funding about $70 million a month in residential loans. Deutsche has been shopping for an origination platform for well over a year. (For more details see the Monday May 25 edition of National Mortgage News.)
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While the nationwide purchase average declined nearly 3% in 2025, these costs rose in 23 of 50 states and the District of Columbia, a study from LodeStar said.
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Priority Financial Network CEO Marc Shenkman allegedly told a former employee to "keep his resume out there" because he planned to get Lendwise shut down.
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Technology and customer service were the two largest categories within operational expenses last year, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
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Bright partnered with real estate data and analytics platform HouseCanary to deliver exposure on Google at no additional cost or operational efforts.
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The move may have been related to the government-sponsored enterprise's duration gap but could also have resulted from many other considerations.
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The lawsuit is the third against a California-based mortgage company this month after revelations of another early-2026 incident at a wholesale lender.
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