May 17, 2012
While many of the largest mortgage lenders in the industry continue to scale back their operations in a somewhat precarious operating...
May 17, 2012
Mortgage servicers reported significant improvement in loan delinquency rates during the first quarter of 2012, although the inventory of...
May 17, 2012
Mortgage lending industry representatives are apprehensive about how the underlying economics of originating a mortgage are going to be...
May 11, 2012
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of the Inspector General will begin internal audits later in 2012 on various...... from Inside FHA Lending
April 30, 2012
The Financial Stability Board has published principles for sound residential mortgage underwriting practices, emphasizing that participating...... from Inside Regulatory Strategies
April 6, 2012
If mortgage lending profitability was directly correlated to an ability to respond satisfactorily to borrower complaints, a lot of mortgage...... from Inside Mortgage Trends
March 30, 2012
Bank and thrift portfolio holdings of first liens increased in the fourth quarter of 2011 compared with the previous quarter, according to the...... from Inside Nonconforming Markets
May 11, 2012
The Mortgage Bankers Association is pushing a proposal to change the remittance schedule on Freddie Mac participation certificates and make...
May 11, 2012
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reported robust activity in their expanded refinance programs for underwater borrowers, while Ginnie Mae is...
May 11, 2012
Redwood Trust saw steady progress in growing its residential mortgage business in the first quarter of 2012, which was highlighted by two...
May 11, 2012
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage loans remain widely available, thanks to the independent lenders that rallied to plug the gaps as major...... from Inside FHA Lending
April 6, 2012
Three former Fannie Mae executives, including the company’s one-time CEO, have petitioned a federal judge to toss the securities fraud...... from Inside The GSEs
March 30, 2012
Prudential Financial this week issued a $1.0 billion bond to sell vintage subprime mortgage-backed securities. Analysts described the bond as...... from Inside Nonconforming Markets
February 21, 2012
In response to a request from the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has banned a number of defendants from providing mortgage...... from Inside Regulatory Strategies
May 4, 2012
The Federal Housing Finance Agency is still mulling over accepting principal reduction payments from the Treasury Department even as the...
May 4, 2012
Dividend payments paid by Freddie Mac to the U.S. Treasury for its continued financial support held down the GSE during the first quarter...
May 4, 2012
Don’t expect the long-awaited White House plan to wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac “anytime soon,” an Obama...
May 17, 2012
A decline in Fannie Mae’s inventory of single-family real estate owned homes coupled with improved REO sale prices played a significant...... from Inside Mortgage Finance
May 11, 2012
“The private market will never come back if the best deal for the private investor is the government,” Lewis Ranieri, chairman and...... from Inside Nonconforming Markets
May 11, 2012
The Mortgage Bankers Association is pushing a proposal to change the remittance schedule on Freddie Mac participation certificates and make...... from Inside MBS & ABS
March 23, 2012
Mortgage lenders, private mortgage insurers and the government-sponsored enterprises remained at loggerheads on the nagging problem of loan...... from Inside Mortgage Trends
May 14, 2012
Mortgage originator compensation has moved clearly into the crosshairs of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as part of a broader...
May 14, 2012
Three mortgage lending industry groups have challenged the position of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a key Truth in Lending...
May 14, 2012
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sided with borrowers in an appeals case being brought under the Fair Debt Collection Practices...
May 17, 2012
Mortgage lending industry representatives are apprehensive about how the underlying economics of originating a mortgage are going to be...... from Inside Mortgage Finance
May 11, 2012
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of the Inspector General will begin internal audits later in 2012 on various...... from Inside FHA Lending
May 11, 2012
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reported robust activity in their expanded refinance programs for underwater borrowers, while Ginnie Mae is looking...... from Inside MBS & ABS
May 4, 2012
The Federal Housing Finance Agency is still mulling over accepting principal reduction payments from the Treasury Department even as the...... from Inside The GSEs
May 4, 2012
Nearly all major lenders have reported increased earnings from their mortgage banking activities during the first quarter of 2012,...
May 4, 2012
Mortgage lenders that were less than enthusiastic about the first version of the refinance program for underwater Fannie Mae and Freddie...
May 4, 2012
Nearly half of the 56 banks reported that they offer “nontraditional” home mortgages, such as interest-only loans. Virtually all...
May 11, 2012
Two Harbors Investment started acquiring residential properties to offer for rent during the first quarter of 2012, with officials at the real...... from Inside Nonconforming Markets
April 27, 2012
Combined servicing volume for the top 50 Ginnie Mae MBS servicers jumped to $1.23 billion in the first quarter of 2012 from $1.11 billion...... from Inside FHA Lending
April 20, 2012
MBS Business Surges in 1Q 2012 Due to Refi GSE single-family securitizations leapt 16.2 percent during the first three months of 2012...... from Inside The GSEs
January 23, 2012
Regulatory burden will be the biggest issue for mortgage originators in 2012, according to recruiting firm Hammerhouse’s second annual...... from Inside Regulatory Strategies
May 11, 2012
Mortgage servicers could find themselves in a quandary as they implement the national servicing standards outlined in the March foreclosure...
May 11, 2012
FHA lenders are anticipating a spike in volume when changes to the FHA Streamline Refinance Program become effective next month. The...
May 11, 2012
The FHA and the reverse mortgage industry are working on guidelines that would help lenders in the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program...
November 23, 2011
Residential mortgage securitization rates declined in the third quarter of 2011, but surging volume in the primary market will push new MBS...... from Inside MBS & ABS
September 29, 2011
Former executives of mortgage companies that failed to indemnify the Department of Housing and Urban Development on FHA losses are back in...... from Inside Mortgage Finance
May 9, 2011
The Department of Justice and the Department of Housing and Urban Development last week announced they had filed a civil mortgage fraud...... from Inside Regulatory Strategies
May 11, 2012
“The private market will never come back if the best deal for the private investor is the government,” Lewis Ranieri, chairman...
May 11, 2012
After a tough economic environment had officials at Redwood Trust considering whole loan sales in lieu of non-agency securitization, the...
May 11, 2012
Ocwen Financial has been a leader in principal-reduction loan modifications and officials at the company suggest the mods give Ocwen a...
July 15, 2011
Raising the annual mortgage premium by 25 basis points has resulted in some reduction in FHA lending but not so dramatic as to send lenders...... from Inside FHA Lending
May 19, 2011
Weekly mortgage rates and application survey data as well as indexes for ARMs.... from Inside Mortgage Finance
April 22, 2011
With the flow of new jumbo mortgage securitizations still running at a trickle, the non-agency MBS market remains dominated by...... from Inside MBS & ABS
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