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  • HMDA’s Fun Facts for Credit Unions

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    Dana Ginsburg
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    Here are some fun facts to know and tell about credit unions as the Credit Union National Association holds its annual Governmental Affairs Conference in Washington, DC: -California is the state with the most credit union mortgage lending, according to LendingPatterns™. So a list of CU home loans by Congressional district would be top heavy…

  • Florida Shows High Proportion of Hispanic Borrowers And Non-Owner Occupied Units in 2015 HMDA Data

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    Florida is a state with a considerable Hispanic population and a reputation as a valued source for investor real estate interest. Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data from LendingPatterns™ tend to back both of those characteristics. Nearly $14 billion of nearly $100 billion in 2015 mortgage volume in the Sunshine State went to Hispanics, 14 percent…

  • Jumbo Mortgages More Than Half California 2015 Volume As the Average for All Loans Tops the Conforming Limit

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    More than half of mortgage dollars originated in California in 2015 were for more than the then-$417,000 conforming loan limit, according to Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data analyzed through LendingPatterns™. So many dollars went to jumbos, in fact, that they brought the average mortgage made in California in 2015 to more than the conforming limit.…

  • Rural Mortgages Differ from Urban and Suburban Ones

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    Dana Ginsburg
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    I have always been interested in rural housing and mortgages, and LendingPatterns™ has a lot of good information on this small niche of the lending business. There is a category here for “FSA/RHS” which is a combination of two US Department of Agriculture lending programs—the Rural Housing Service and the Farm Services Agency. And you…

  • VA Mortgages Hit $150 Billion

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    Department of Veterans Affairs mortgages hit $150 billion in 2015, up about 30 percent from the $115 billion of mortgages guaranteed in 2014. That’s right in line with the increase the nationwide mortgage market registered that year. Originations (excluding purchases) did not quite hit 50 percent in 2015, with $307 billion in applications for an…

  • Upper/Lower Income Applicants Show Major Differences

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    A look at mortgage applicants with the highest and lowest incomes in 2015 reveals major differences between the two cohorts, as well as the occasional similarity. Both groups were similar, for instance, in loan purpose, with each cohort fairly split between home purchase and refinancing business. Upper income borrowers applied for 45 percent purchase and…

  • Bank in Texas Leads Minority-Owned Bank/Thrift Mortgage Volumes for 2015

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    A Hispanic-owned bank in Texas funded the most minority-owned bank/thrift mortgage dollars in 2015, followed by two Asian American banks. International Bank of Commerce, Laredo Texas, made $347 million in mortgages in 2015, making it the biggest minority owned bank or thrift in home loan finance, according to 2015 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data. CTBC…

  • CFPB Lenders Made One Third of 2015 Mortgages

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    It is not hard to isolate most of the nation’s biggest mortgage lenders in LendingPatterns™. The Consumer Financial Protection Board has reserved the category of lenders with $10 billion in assets and above for itself, and there are a lot of familiar names there. The list doesn’t exactly duplicate the top lenders in the country,…

  • 94 Percent of HMDA Lenders Made Mortgages to Women in 2015

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    Nearly all the lenders that made mortgages last year made mortgages to women. Of the 6,880 firms that reported Home Mortgage Disclosure Act originations data to the Federal Financial Institutions Examinations Council in 2015, 6,498 granted mortgage dollars to women. That’s 94 percent. A look at the LendingPatterns™ database of ComplianceTech, a fair lending and…

  • FDIC Lenders Made $181 Billion in Mortgages in 2015

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    Lenders insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. saw their originations volume bump up to $181 billion in 2015 from $140 billion in 2014, HMDA data show. Almost 2,500 lenders (2,476) are counted in the FDIC category in LendingPatterns™. However, this doesn’t include all lenders insured by FDIC. The “CFPB Lenders” category includes mortgages made…