Back in April, the privately held Quicken sued the two cabinet level agencies and their leaders, claiming the residential lender was a target of a “political agenda" under which the DOJ…
“There is no policy rationale for the federal government to continue to subsidize the portion of mortgages that exceed $500,000,” said Sheila Crowley, NLIHC’s president and CEO.
Prior to Quicken filing its suit in April 2015, HUD had tried to work out a multi-million dollar legal settlement with the lender, whereby Quicken would admit to wrongdoing.
Servicers and borrowers with subprime adjustable-rate mortgages would benefit from a new type of loan modification, according to research recently published by the Federal Reserve’s division of research and statistics and division of monetary affairs. The researchers suggested that mods triggered when housing price declines exceed a certain percentage may reduce delinquency and foreclosure rates along with reducing servicers’ costs. The results were detailed in a paper titled ...
Some lenders offering non-qualified mortgages see the product as a way to generate volume in a sector of the market that most competitors are avoiding. However, even some prominent non-QM lenders aren’t comfortable originating the loans in New York State. New York was the fourth-ranked state in terms of total originations in 2014, according to an analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data by Inside Mortgage Trends, an affiliated publication, accounting for 4.2 percent of ...
Originations of interest-only mortgages by lenders that are prominent in the niche have lagged behind overall mortgage production trends, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. Through the first three quarters of 2015, first-lien IO originations by a group of 12 lenders increased by 13.2 percent compared with the same period in 2014. Overall mortgage production in that time increased by 42.9 percent, according to ... [Includes one data chart]
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