After the crisis, non-agency lending dried up, which put Quicken in a good position to grow.
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“Going in, they were largely a small lender” that sold loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and other federal guarantee agencies. “They were one of the few lenders that came through the financial crisis unscathed,” Cecala said. It created a stir two years ago when it advertised its Rocket Mortgage during the Super Bowl with the tagline, “Push Button, Get Mortgage.” Getting a mortgage on a mobile phone is fairly common now, but at that time it conjured up memories of the subprime crisis. The company has no brick-and-mortar stores it makes loans over the phone and, more recently, online. It’s no longer affiliated with Intuit or with Quicken software, which Intuit sold in 2016. It was owned by Intuit for about 2½ years but was repurchased by its founder, Dan Gilbert, and a small group of investors in August 2002 and has been privately held since. It uses its own resources to make loans, then quickly sells them to get money to make more loans. We would be one of the largest lenders in the country if you look only at our purchase business.”Ĭecala said Quicken ranked ninth in home-purchase mortgages in the first nine months of last year. Although I understand they, as signing companies, need to make their bucks I would not take a signing for 70 or 75 I would always negotiate to a fee half way in between. It is true that sometimes orders come from other than TSI, and they offer to pay less. “The purchase business for us is very robust. Quicken Loans is great, they honor their name.
Quicken does not disclose its ratio of purchase to refinance mortgages but “we have a healthy mix of both,” its chief executive, Jay Farner, said. The recent rise in (mortgage) rates is going to put the brakes on the refi business.” Refinance loans remained strong last year because rates stayed lower than expected. “They are primarily a refi lender,” he said, “which they hate to acknowledge. The last company to edge out Wells Fargo was Countrywide Financial in 2004.Ĭecala said it will be interesting to see how long Quicken can stay on top. Wells has been the nation’s largest mortgage lender since before the financial crisis. Overtaking Wells on the retail side is still an accomplishment for Quicken, Cecala said. But the industry has always reported volume with and without “wholesale” loans made by independent brokers and correspondent banks, said Guy Cecala, publisher of Inside Mortgage Finance, which publishes industry statistics. It results in double counting because they are reported by the lender that originated the loan and the one that purchased the loan. Including correspondent loans inflates a lender’s volume. Quicken is retail only it does not purchase correspondent loans or make loans through independent brokers. “Customers benefit from a healthy and competitive marketplace for home financing,” it added. Including these so-called correspondent loans, its total production volume was $53 billion for the fourth quarter, Wells said in an email. Wells was still bigger than Quicken in the fourth quarter if you include mortgages Wells purchased from other lenders shortly after they were originated.
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