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Lower founder Dan Snyder says that the multichannel lender wants to acquire at least one company this year and is willing to pay a premium.

GEORGETOWN, Texas and COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Industry leaders Thrive Mortgage, LLC and Lower, LLC announced today an agreem...

Everyone’s above average, right? This morning I head to Chicago where residents have the dubious honor of being the worst when it comes to estimating home values. Homes are expensive… Who knew? Apparently not the vast majority of Americans, which reminds me of the saying, “Never underestimate the intelligence of the average person.” All Star Home surveyed Americans in the most populous U.S. cities, prompting them to guess home prices in their communities to determine ...

Parent company of Veritex Community Bank, which paid $54.9 million to acquire a 49 percent interest in Thrive in 2021, expects a $25 million to $30 million loss if the deal closes.

Remember, not all math puns are terrible...just sum. Analyzing residential servicing is a combination of math and psychology. If you were an institution thinking of buying mortgage servicing rights (MSR), or a lender running the numbers on retaining servicing rather than selling it to an aggregator like AmeriHome or Penny Mac, you don’t like hearing the saying, “Marry the house, date the rate.” You’d prefer that the loan stay “on your books” well into th...

The deal with American Mortgage Services Co. comes as originations continue to slow. However, lower valuations may be limiting current M&A activity, according to some experts.

The big news in the Chrisman household is my cat Myrtle being offered a big signing bonus by the family next door. Apparently, word of her mousing prowess has spread. Myrtle’s tight-lipped on the details, but I assume it involves line-caught halibut and wild salmon tidbits. When I brought it up, she glared at me as if to say, “Hey, it’s a free market.” At 10, Myrtle’s no spring chicken, and I told her that she’d better think long and hard about it since ...

The acquisition will strengthen Thrive’s retail channel and bring with it new territories amidst arguably the most challenging mortgage market since the early 1980s.

I could tell that my cat Myrtle was miffed, and this time it didn’t have anything to do with the CFPB. (Nor me heading to Salt Lake City today for the SimpleNexus User Group Conference.) She was upset because she had missed out, once again, on the coveted Chrisman LLC Employee of the Month award which includes a parking spot near the front door of the massive office complex we occupy in the downtown of a large city. On top of that, she had recently fallen for an email scam that began, &#x...

VP of Non-QM, Credit/Diligence, Ops, MLO, AE Jobs; National MI Integration; Shifting Borrower Profiles Dec 21 2020, 8:31AM As we watch the second largest stimulus bill in history move toward passage, greetings from the Winter Solstice, the official start of winter and the day with the fewest hours of sunlight in the year in the Northern Hemisphere. More sunlight going forward! On a smaller scale, I love it when your alarm goes off and you ask for 10 more hours. (Why d...