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...Rocket Companies, which owns Quicken Loans, the US’s largest non-bank mortgage lender, has more than halved to $21bn in market value over the past 12 months....
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...It is not just lower loan volumes. Non-bank lenders generally sell the loans they make to bondholders....
...Dan Gilbert, the billionaire founder of Quicken Loans, has made two big bets in his life: one on the mortgage industry and one on the city of Detroit....
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...After shifting from being a traditional home loan lender in the late 1990s to an online-only provider, Quicken Loans became America’s largest mortgage lender last year....
...It is eight years since the Quicken Loans founder moved the mortgage lender from the suburbs to the city’s scarred heart....
...“We’ve had to put some shovels in the ground and get some cranes in the air because there’s just not enough product to satisfy the demand,” says Jim Ketai, chief executive and co-founder with Quicken Loans...
...They are designed in Detroit, out of another start-up hub in the old Madison Theatre building, one of many iconic buildings redeveloped by Dan Gilbert, the Quicken Loans founder who has been central to jump-starting...
...What’s more, the expiry of call protection, which forces companies to pay a fee if they wish to refinance their loans before a certain date, is likely to quicken the trend towards repricings....
...AT&T, the owner of Quicken Loans and several private equity firms were also looking at acquiring Yahoo’s core internet assets – which include the company’s search, email, advertising and media operations...
...Mr Gilbert has built an estimated $5bn fortune from founding, selling and re-acquiring Quicken Loans, one of the US’s largest mortgage originators....
...Bidders include Verizon, an investment group led by billionaire Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert which has backing from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, and private equity groups such as TPG, Apollo...
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