Reversing at least temporarily a long-running trend in the mortgage market, the four biggest banks in the U.S. expanded their presence in the GSE single-family market in the third quarter of 2016...
The traditional interpretation of Section 8 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act that the mortgage industry has relied on for decades was vindicated this week when ...
ICYMI: The brouhaha over the Wells Fargo phony account creation debacle took another turn this week, with CEO John Stump opting for early retirement...
Further empirical confirmation of a recovering mortgage market continued to accumulate at the CFPB during the third quarter, as related consumer complaints dropped 19.8 percent ...
Since the repurchase and indemnification phenomenon is unlikely to disappear anytime soon, many correspondent lenders, credit unions and other recipients of a repurchase/indemnification demand want to know how best to respond in order to mitigate potential damages. During a recent webinar sponsored by American Mortgage Law Group, AMLG Senior Managing Member James Brody said there are many different factors to consider. “One of the things that really helps in getting any resolution is...
PHH Corp. this week scored a key legal victory in its battle with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over captive reinsurance and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act. But despite this good news, there are still clouds over the nonbank. The “worst” of the recent spate of bad news for the company surrounds the early October disclosure that Merrill Lynch is breaking all ties to PHH when it comes to private-label originations and servicing. The effective date for the end of the contract is...
Not only are commercial banks continuing to lose residential production market share, but it appears they are paying their retail loan officers less than nonbanks – a lot less. According to more than a dozen interviews conducted with executives and LOs at originating firms with different charters, some nonbanks are allowing for compensation plans that pay the originator upwards of 200 basis points. At banks, the best LO comp plan is 100 bps, Inside Mortgage Finance found. One bank mortgage manager, who spoke under the condition his name not be used, said...
Two FHA lenders in Utah have agreed to pay the federal government a total of $9.25 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act in connection with badly underwritten FHA-insured loans that later resulted in losses to the FHA insurance fund. Primary Residential Mortgage Inc. (PRMI) and SecurityNational Mortgage Co. became the latest statistics in the government’s effort to prosecute lenders whose practices result in losses to the FHA insurance fund. The two lenders have agreed separately to $5.0 million and $4.25 million settlements, respectively, without admitting to any fault or liability for the failed loans. In separate complaints, the Department of Justice accused...
“It is critically important for the GSEs to develop and implement additional CRT structures that are accessible to lenders of all sizes and business models in order to avoid reconcentration of the origination and servicing market,” writes MBA President Dave Stevens.
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