The mortgage division is housed in BofA’s consumer banking division, which employed 65,818 workers at the end of June.

Chase was the sixth largest FHA lender in 2014 with $1.67 billion. Citi ranked 62nd with $342.4 million.

A few years back, one investor in nonperforming loans told us that when he couldn’t find a delinquent borrower he turned to the Internet, namely Facebook...

Complaints about residential mortgages were among the first type of gripes to be accepted and tracked by the CFPB’s consumer complaint database.

JPMorgan Chase earned $584 million from its mortgage banking division in the second quarter, more than double the profit of the first quarter.

The “major” counties where it’s cheaper to rent are all in Southern California...

Mortgage industry consultants at Lenders Compliance Group have received some client questions lately having to do with the seven-day waiting period under the CFPB’s integrated disclosure rule. “We know about the seven-day waiting period requirement between providing the initial disclosures and consummation,” according to a new TRID-related blog from Lenders Compliance Group that summarizes the concerns. “We need to know what criteria to use in order to determine if the consumer may waive the waiting period based on a personal emergency. And if a consumer can waive the waiting period, how is this done?” Jonathan Foxx, president and managing director at the consultancy, replied that, “For a closed-end credit transaction that is secured by the consumer’s dwelling and subject to ...

The CFPB’s integrated disclosure rule under the Truth in Lending Act and Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act – dubbed TRID – is a “once in a generation transformational event for the industry,” according to Franklin Codel, executive vice president of Wells Fargo Mortgage. Even with the recently extended effective date of Oct. 3, 2015, TRID was still at the forefront of topics at a real estate conference in Miami in late June. The pending rule prompted a discussion by panelists who emphasized the magnitude of the upcoming changes. Codel said he thinks the industry is prepared but said it’s going to require strong cooperation among lenders, real estate professionals, settlement agents and consumers to get this right. “Many of the things that ...

Mortgage lenders told the CFPB they support the bureau’s recent proposal to extend the effective date of its integrated disclosure rule to Oct. 3, but urged the agency to do yet more to help the industry cope. The Mortgage Bankers Association, for example, in its comment letter said the so-called TRID rule –promulgated under the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act – when finally implemented “will make the mortgage process considerably more understandable and navigable for consumers, an objective we have long shared.” However, “experience has shown that the TRID rule is far more complicated and wide ranging than any other rule previously issued by the CFPB,” the trade group added. “It is causing significant implementation ...

Housing markets in North Dakota and Texas are looking a bit risky these days, according to the Arch MI Risk Index model.