Although the new requirements could prompt an increase in costs, analysts said a new requirement aimed at increasing the number of times troubled borrowers are evaluated for loss mitigation will be particularly helpful in certain states…
HUD has been criticized by consumer advocates who feel the agency's NPL auctions have unfairly benefitted private equity firms and hedge funds at the expense of troubled borrowers.
Commercial banks and savings institutions are continuing their years-long flight from the volatile business of holding mortgage-servicing rights on their balance sheets, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of call report data. At the end of June, banks and thrifts serviced $3.916 trillion of single-family mortgages for other investors, usually mortgage-backed securities trusts. That was down 2.1 percent from the previous quarter and ... [Includes one data chart]
A proposed rule published by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. earlier in the year regarding recordkeeping requirements would “unnecessarily increase costs for banks and servicers,” according to George Green, an associate vice president at the Mortgage Bankers Association. The proposed rule would apply to depositories with more than two million deposit accounts. Under the regulation, banks would generally be required to maintain complete and ...
Proponents of the mortgage interest tax deduction point out that the real estate and mortgage industries employ thousands upon thousands of workers with spillover to other sectors...
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