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Servicing, 203(k) Products; Conventional Conforming Underwriting Shifts

Posted To: Pipeline Press

Does anyone out there care that credit-card debt rose to a record $930 billion in Q4 2019? (Total mortgage debt hit $9.56 trillion.) How about that the origination cost of over $8,000 per loan hits low balance loan borrowers more than high balance borrowers? Do you break out your “tech spend” per loan? Has it gone from hundreds to thousands of dollars? Residential lending is truly a numbers game. According to Informa Financial Intelligence January 2020 Mortgage Originations Data, rate-lock volume has increased 71% YoY and 42% MoM across all channels, while funded volume has increased 70% YoY and fallen 10% MoM. In the Retail channel, lock volume has increased 78% YoY and 48% MoM, while funded volume has increased 94% YoY and fallen 17% MoM. Average 30-year Conforming FRM funded...(read more)