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Land leases, ARM buydowns emerge as lending options while mortgage rates stay elevated

Mortgage lenders are getting creative to combat the housing affordability crisis fueled by rising interest rates, rolling out novel products and blending existing options to keep borrowers in the market. Bayview Asset Management — which closed its acquisition of Guild Mortgage in November — rolled out a new program on Monday. Partnering with real estate […]

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Inside Movement Mortgage’s MSR sales strategy

Due to ferocious investor demand, Movement Mortgage is opportunistically selling billions in mortgage servicing rights. And the South Carolina-based retail lender is using the cash proceeds to sharpen pricing for its roughly 1,400 producing loan officers. But while improved pricing might help win deals in the short term, Movement isn’t retaining recapture rights on some

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