PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust, a mortgage vulture fund that also is working on a new conduit, has signed up Impac Mortgage Holdings as a correspondent lender, according to industry officials. At press time both companies had not responded to telephone calls about the matter. The publicly traded PennyMac, a REIT based in Calabasas, is reportedly gathering product for a future securitization but has not released details about its plans. Impac, a former alt-A lender, has managed to survive the financial crisis and is acting as both a servicer and broker of loans, in addition to other side businesses. The company is based in Irvine.
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Jay Farner takes a majority ownership stake in Detroit's professional soccer franchise through the investment group he launched after leaving Rocket in 2023.
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The major government-related secondary-market loan buyer is moving to a new approach that mortgage companies can start transitioning to later this year.
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Short-sale transactions increased 4% from 2023 to 2024, nearly 10% from 2024 to 2025 and about 16% annually in the first quarter of this year, according to Realtor.com.
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The 30-year fixed rate loan average is at its highest since August, while the 15-year is now above where it was one year ago, Freddie Mac found.
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A one-time chief lending officer for Heritage State Bank has been barred from the industry for signing off on mortgages backed by over-valued appraisals.
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Sales trends for new homes are on the upswing, another reason mortgage lenders need to keep an eye on this segment, the Mortgage Bankers Association found.
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