Officials at Hope LoanPort are touting the capabilities of their web-based portal to help mortgage servicers get into full compliance with the servicing rules put out in February by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as well as help loan modifications proceed without interruption. When the CFPB’s mortgage servicing rules kick in Jan. 10, 2014, lenders will be required to “maintain policies and procedures that are reasonably designed to achieve the objectives of facilitating transfer of ...
First Guaranty Mortgage Corp., a provider of special niche products, has announced plans to push more mainstream FHA/VA and Fannie Mae products through its wholesale broker channel. The plan is to add the popular Home Affordable Refinance Program, loans backed by the Rural Housing Service, and the FHA and VA streamline refinancing programs to the current wholesale menu of manufactured home loans and 203(k) home rehabilitation and repair loans. “We’d like our wholesale side to be better-rounded and so we’re ...
The use of premium pricing to induce more borrowers to opt for FHA streamline refinancing may be a boon for FHA borrowers but clearly a bane for investors in Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities, according to Barclays Research analysts. There are indications that more FHA lenders are resorting to premium pricing, in which borrowers pay a higher mortgage rate in return for lowering the cost of obtaining the loan. Its use seems to be increasing, which also raises the risk of Ginnie Mae prepayments, said ...
Mortgage companies are starting to use predictive modeling and better data and analytics to target homeowners who are moving with the right message at the right time in the move cycle. With the use of direct mail, companies can reach movers before they purchase a new mortgage, the thinking goes. Data and analytics company Target Data, a privately held firm based in Chicago, uses proprietary technology to aggregate housing data (more than 70 million records a week), which it uses to predict if ...
Roughly 1.2 million U.S. homes were in some stage of foreclosure during February, a 21 decline from the same period in 2011, and that spells trouble for bottom feeders looking to buy real estate owned properties from banks and auction companies. According to interviews with investors, servicing executives and mortgage bankers, some buyers are turning to the nonperforming loan market as a “back door” way to buy properties. “Investors that are buying NPLs in this fashion are looking to foreclose so they ...
The Internal Revenue Service issued an opinion this month stating that real estate owned costs do not need to be capitalized. Lawyers at Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick said IRS memorandum AM2013-001 appears to reverse an IRS opinion issued last year which stated that costs associated with REOs must be capitalized. “Historically, many banks have deducted expenses associated with other REO property currently rather than capitalizing them,” Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick said. However, in the last few years ...
Despite a sharp increase in mortgage originations last year, the number of state-licensed loan originators increased by just 2.7 percent compared to 2011, according to data from the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System analyzed by Inside Mortgage Trends. A total of 519,428 loan originators were either licensed by the states or registered as staff of a bank, thrift or credit union. The highest concentration of these LOs was in California, where 15.3 percent of the industry ... [Includes one data chart]
According to an analysis by Fitch Ratings, the overall charges for a simple jumbo non-agency MBS across all note-holders would increase to between 6.3 percent and 8.2 percent under the new proposal.
The launch of the revised CFPB database expands the bureau's consumer complaint apparatus in a major way. It includes a sub-category for many products, including mortgages.
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