With mortgage rates at their highest level in more than two years, the long-awaited boom in mergers and acquisitions may finally be here. But don’t expect sellers to accept just any price. “M&A is picking up,” said Larry Charbonneau, who runs a boutique advisory firm, Charbonneau & Associates. “The big fish want to buy the small ones, but the small ones don’t know if it’s in their best interest to sell yet.” Charbonneau points out...
Radian Guaranty has struck a deal with Freddie Mac on a pool of delinquent and reperforming mortgages, capping the private mortgage insurer’s exposure at $840 million and reducing the total number of delinquent loans by 12.6 percent. Announced on Aug. 29, the agreement covers a group of 25,760 first-lien loans insured by Radian and held by the government-sponsored enterprise that were delinquent as of Dec. 31, 2011. The agreement provides for the future treatment of these loans, including claim payments, loss mitigation and termination of insurance coverage. At the same time, Radian’s claim exposure on 9,756 delinquent loans and 4,586 loans that were...
Purchase mortgages accounted for 39 percent of the loans included in the new Credit Suisse jumbo MBS deal. The weighted-average combined LTV was 71 percent.
Borrowers are given the option to either make a single, lump sum draw for adjustable and fixed-rate HECMs at closing or within the 12-month period after the loan closing.
In a letter dispatched to CFPB Director Richard Cordray, MBA stresses that mortgage firms are not being allowed enough time to properly comply with the January 2014 implementation of the bureau’s many new rules.
The Chicago ordinance, which took effect in November 2011, requires mortgage lenders to register vacant properties with the city and pay a $500 registration fee.
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