New York-based asset manager Rithm Capital, the owner of multichannel lender Newrez, reported a 58% increase in refinances to $3 billion in the third quarter of 2024 after mortgage rates dropped due to the Federal Reserve’s 50 basis-point rate cut. But executives expect things to calm down moving forward. “I think we’re going to get…
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You don’t often hear about someone with an affinity for nuclear physics finding their way into the reverse mortgage field, but that’s exactly the journey we’re charting in this edition of “Origins” from HousingWire’s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD). Rick Schluter, a New Jersey-based reverse mortgage specialist with Mutual of Omaha Mortgage, became engrossed in physics…
A California regulator has revoked the residential mortgage lending license of LoanSnap, the latest in a series of difficulties for the fintech lender. According to a filing from the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation dated Oct. 18, LoanSnap had its license revoked after it failed to renew its surety bond. That policy, which…
A descendant of the Brothers Grimm and his husband are selling their apartment in the Carlyle on the Upper East Side.