Altisource Portfolio Solutions this month announced that a subsidiary will acquire Equator, the software service provider that helps facilitate home sales for four of the six largest servicers as well as the government-sponsored enterprises. The acquisition is valued at a base price of $70 million with an additional $80 million over three years, subject to Equator achieving performance targets. The sale is set to close by mid-September. Altisource said the acquisition diversifies its customer base and ...
The spike in interest rates in recent months didn’t cause a significant change in homebuyer behavior, according to the latest Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey. The non-cash share of purchase-financing continued to increase in July and sales-to-list price ratios remained elevated, indicating strong demand from homebuyers relying on mortgage financing. Non-cash financing (conventional mortgages, FHA and VA, non-agency, etc.) accounted for 72.1 percent of ...
Tommy Adkins, director of loan production for Florida Capital Bank Mortgage, has some advice for lenders fearing a tumultuous slowdown in refinancings: cut overhead now and don’t look back. Unfortunately for rank-and-file mortgage workers, cutting overhead means jobs. When Wells Fargo recently announced that it was eliminating 2,300 jobs in its mortgage department, it provided few details on what type of workers were let go except to say most were in fulfillment and processing. A Wells spokesman ...
Federal regulators this week re-proposed risk-retention requirements with an option to align the definition of qualified residential mortgages with the definition of qualified mortgages. The regulators said the alignment will help increase mortgage availability and reduce compliance costs. “The agencies are concerned about the prospect of imposing further constraints on mortgage credit availability at this time, especially as such constraints might disproportionately affect groups that have ...
Commercial banks and savings institutions continued to generate solid earnings on their mortgage banking activity during the second quarter of 2013, according to a new call report analysis by Inside Mortgage Trends. Banks and thrifts reported $8.164 billion in mortgage banking income during the second quarter, a 6.0 percent increase from the first three months of the year. It was, in fact, the second best quarterly earnings for the industry since the bank call report was amended in ... [Includes two data charts]
Warehouse lending executives say they are seeing their nonbank clients earn less money this summer, but noted that profits are still strong by historical levels.
The the most powerful consumer regulator in the nation raised concerns about aligning the definitions of 'qualified residential mortgage' and 'qualified mortgage.'
The agency watchdog wants HUD to pursue civil remedies against The Lending Company and impose fines for incorrectly certifying that mortgages were eligible for FHA insurance.
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