California CU Offering No Downpayment Option, Using a 80/20 ‘Piggyback’ Loan December 29, 2015 Brandon Ivey Borrowers are required to have a credit score of at least 700 and at least three months of reserves...Read More
CFPB Brings $3.1 Million Lawsuit Against Law Firm Over Debt Collection Practices December 29, 2015 Thomas Ressler No mortgage-related misconduct was alleged in the bureau’s latest action, but servicers shouldn’t take much comfort from the omission... Read More
Short Takes: Home Prices Back to Pre-Bust Levels / Hot Growth for Denver, SF, Portland / A 10-Year HELOC / FHLB Cuts Warehouse Line / WJB Picks a New CIO December 29, 2015 Paul Muolo, Brandon Ivey, and Carisa Chappell It’s not every day that a Federal Home Loan Bank tells one of its members to reduce its credit facilities...Read More
Subservicing Contracts Continue to Rise; A 28 Percent Gain YoY December 28, 2015 Paul Muolo In a recent report, Freddie Mac economists said subservicing likely will “persist and perhaps grow.”Read More
Clayton Homes Pushes Back Against Accusations of Discriminatory Lending on Manufactured Homes December 28, 2015 Brandon Ivey Clayton said the outlets’ analysis didn’t include factors such as a borrower’s credit score, downpayment, loan size, collateral and land type...Read More
Banks Sharply Reduce Use of ‘Proprietary’ Loan Mods in 3Q15 December 28, 2015 Brandon Ivey The banks completed 22,459 proprietary mods in the third quarter, down 25.4 percent compared with the previous quarter...Read More
Subprime Lender Angel Oak May Fund $1 Billion in 2016 December 23, 2015 Paul Muolo In an interview with IMFnews, John Hsu talked about Angel Oak’s $150 million subprime deal, noting that there is a “huge amount of support for this.”Read More
Jumbo Funder BofI Expands Into Agency Products with Wholesale Offering; Receives Ginnie Issuer Approval December 21, 2015 Brandon Ivey The bank's expansion into government lending comes after a noticeable decline in its share price...Read More
American Mortgage Consultants Buys JCIII; Creates Largest Due Diligence Firm? December 21, 2015 Paul Muolo No purchase price was disclosed. The deal was first hinted at Friday on IMFnews.Read More
Merrill Lynch Renews PLS Contract with PHH – But This Time Around It’s a ‘Non-Exclusive’ Arrangement December 18, 2015 Paul Muolo The BofA spokesman, when asked by Inside Mortgage Finance whether the bank will deliver fewer loans going forward, declined to comment.Read More