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Freddie Mac: Trade War Could Keep Mortgage Rates Down

Since the start of the year, mortgage rates had been rising, spooking investors and industry watchers that the spring real estate market would implode. More recently, mortgage rates have been declinin... read more

A Decade Unlike Any Other

The scale of this industry attrition was perhaps most clearly illustrated through the now infamous “Implode-o-Meter,” which documented the closing of more than 380 mortgage lenders between 2006 and 20... read more

Mortgage Implode-O-Suit

Annelena Lobb checks in with this dispatch on a legal fight that has broken out around a popular subprime-related Web site: When Aaron Krowne created the Mortgage Lender Implode-o-Meter, a Web site th... read more

Libel suit against Mortgage 'Implode-O-Meter' to proceed

Let's make 2018 your breakout year! Join real estate's best to unlock growth at Connect SF, July 17-20, 2018 A judge in California has ruled that a popular Web site that maintains a list of “imploded” ... read more

Site tracks mortgage lenders’ implosions

Every major event needs a witness or historian, and the meltdown of the mortgage industry is no exception. Implode-O-Meter has been keeping a scorecard of all the mortgage lenders that have run into t... read more

WaMu to close Santa Cruz home loan center

The Washington Mutual Home Loan Center in downtown Santa Cruz will close at the end ... Washington Mutual's decision to exit wholesale lending made it No. 249 on the Mortgage Implode-O-Meter, a Web si... read more

Dynex Capital: A Compelling Target For A Short-Term Swing Trade

Dynex Capital is a mortgage REIT and invests primarily in residential and ... I feel that mREITs are often criticized too harshly, with bears thinking that the companies will implode in a rising rate ... read more

Equity firm said to win bidding for IndyMac

The winner of the bidding for the Pasadena thrift is New York-based Dune Capital Management, founded in 2004 by ex-Goldman partners Steven Mnuchin and Daniel Niedich, according to the report on the Mo... read more

The Implode-O-Meter & the Law

When we first read about the Mortgage Lender Implode-o-Meter on the WSJ MarketBeat blog, we thought it was genius. Late last year, with impeccable timing, a 27-year-old computer geek named Aaron Krown... read more

US Mortgage Lenders Implode

There are two important financial headlines this evening and the futures are solidly red. Let's take a look at news regarding Wachovia and Bank of America starting with the former. Wachovia Halts Whol... read more

We're No Longer Living In Refi Paradise

The minute this reluctance to borrow and spend produces negative growth numbers, the system will begin to spin out of control, as leveraged players from retail stores to airlines to car manufacturers ... read more

Lenders fold, big banks on hold and local economy takes a hit

During 2008, more than 100 lenders disappeared, with 29 closing in the fourth quarter, according to the Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter, which tracks the industry. "It was fairly stunning to see the l... read more