Residential loan production picked up steam in March after a tepid January and February, while originators – both banks and nonbanks alike – kept a close eye on expenses in an effort to maintain positive cash flow. Bill Dallas, CEO and president of Skyline Home Loans, Calabasas, CA, said his company funded $650 million in the first quarter, a modest 5.8 percent decline from the same period a year ago. Roughly 75 percent of Skyline’s production was purchase loans, the exact opposite of what the company did in the year-ago quarter. “Over the past five months, since the election, the landscape has been...
Most lenders are usually shy when asked whether they would like to go public. But not Better Mortgage, a barely one-year-old “digital” mortgage lender that could triple loan production this year to $1.5 billion. “Yes, we’d like to go public,” company founder and CEO Vishal Garg told Inside MortgageFinance. “This company should be owned by the public.” As for when, that’s a different matter. The last time a nonbank mortgage lender sold...
As might be expected, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, did his best to pummel the CFPB and its Director Richard Cordray during a hearing Wednesday.
The media call with Barney Frank was sponsored by the Constitutional Accountability Center, which assisted scores of current and former Democrat members of Congress in filing an amicus brief in defense of the CFPB.
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