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Rural Mortgages Differ from Urban and Suburban Ones
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…
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VA Mortgages Hit $150 Billion
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…
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Upper/Lower Income Applicants Show Major Differences
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…
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Bank in Texas Leads Minority-Owned Bank/Thrift Mortgage Volumes for 2015
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…
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CFPB Lenders Made One Third of 2015 Mortgages
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,…
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94 Percent of HMDA Lenders Made Mortgages to Women in 2015
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…
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FDIC Lenders Made $181 Billion in Mortgages in 2015
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…
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Patterns in FHA Lending: Non-banks Increase Domination as Share Jumps
The rise to dominance in Federal Housing Administration lending by non-banks continued in 2015, as just two banks made the top 20 ranking, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data show. For 2014, there were four banks in the top 20, but Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase Bank fell out last year, leaving just Wells Fargo…
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Credit Union Mortgage Volume Jumps by 34 Percent
Credit unions had a robust year in mortgages last year, with dollar volumes increasing by 34 percent from $83 billion in 2014 to $111 billion. (This total excludes purchased loans.) That was in line with the 32 percent increase in nationwide originations last year from $1.4 trillion in 2014 to $1.85 trillion. About 2,000 credit…
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Minority Originations Ticked Up in 2015
Percentages of mortgages to minorities ticked up in both numbers of loans and dollars granted in 2015 over 2014, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data show. An analysis of minority volumes in LendingPatterns™ finds that minorities topped 20 percent (20.4 percent of mortgages made) in 2015, a high for recent years. Dollars granted were slightly lower,…