Melville, N.Y.-based Lend America on Thursday said it hopes its new wholesale lending platform will be accepting its first loan in mid-October. The company said the channel would have 25 geographically focused teams as part of its centralized operations. It also will have more than 30 Federal Housing Administration direct endorsed underwriters. "We think there's an opportunity now to revisit the wholesale market," said chief business strategist Michael Ashley in the Sept. 30 special edition of National Mortgage News.
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Non-qualified mortgages account for 23.1% of the series 2026-7 pool, by balance, and 43.4% of the loans in the pool were made to investors for business purposes and are exempt from the Ability-to-Repay rules.
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Besides promoting Sridhar Sharma to CEO from president, the company named Andrew Bon Salle, ex-Fannie exec, as its new chairman, both replacing Chris Marshall.
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Several proposed updates, including lower risk-weight floors for certain securitizations and corporate loans, could make it more attractive for banks to finance or hold certain private credit-related assets, experts say.
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Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr appears to be among the majority of monetary policymakers who foresee at least one more rate hike before the end of the year.
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Several lawsuits filed this year have painted the shared appreciation agreements as misleading, and suggest they should be treated as mortgage loans.
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Attom expanded its artificial intelligence platform, eLend partnered with Ready4Remodel to increase renovation financing and Keller Williams teamed up with Rejig.ai.
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