Parties to trustee lawsuits challenging a city’s use of eminent domain to deal with foreclosures are gearing up for a face-off at an injunction hearing Sept. 13 in federal district court in San Francisco. The city of Richmond, CA, the defendant in the lawsuit, has suffered setbacks in the last few days and has yet to make good on its threat to initiate eminent domain proceedings after investor trustees rejected its offer to purchase distressed mortgages for restructuring. Wells Fargo and Deutsche Bank, acting as trustees for a group of ...
The reverse mortgage lending industry is working with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to implement two policy changes that would strengthen the FHA’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program. One policy change involves the development of a new HECM option that combines features of the fixed-rate, full-draw HECM Standard and the HECM Saver, according to Peter Bell, president and chief executive officer of the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association. HUD eliminated the standard 30-year, fixed-rate HECM in April because ...
Sales-to-list price ratios on non-distressed properties increased for the seventh consecutive month in July to 98 percent, according to new research from the latest Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey.
As feared by the residential finance industry, an increase in upfront mortgage insurance premiums is hurting participation in the FHA program by first-time buyers.
On a combined basis, the nine lender/servicers tracked by Inside Mortgage Trends generated $243 billion in single-family mortgages during the second quarter, a little less than half the entire market.
S&P has been the top non-agency MBS rating agency over the years but DBRS captured the title in 2012 with 55 percent of rated transactions, according to Inside MBS & ABS.
Fitch has determined that loans originated through a direct retail channel have a lower default risk than those originated through brokers or correspondents.
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