CoreLogic to Provide Solutions to Cut FHA, MMIF Losses. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has chosen CoreLogic to provide valuation and workflow solutions to mitigate losses to the FHA and the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund. Under an agreement with HUD, CoreLogic will provide support to determine the best strategies and plans for the valuation and disposition of distressed and real estate-owned properties in HUD’s inventory. Individual Condominium Loan Processing in the VA’s WebLGY System. The Department of Veterans Affairs has issued guidelines to address issues that have arisen since making changes to its web-based loan guaranty system, WebLGY, earlier this month in regards to condominium identification. System changes included removal of the fields where users would input condo IDs when ordering a VA loan identification number (LINs)/appraisal ...
FHA Commissioner Nominee Brian Montgomery: “To be clear, fraud and misrepresentation have no place in any industry … but I wonder if we haven’t gone too far.”
Nearly a dozen industry trade groups sent a letter Tuesday to every member of the U.S. House of Representatives, urging them to support legislative changes to loosen up the points-and-fees cap associated with the qualified-mortgage standard. The legislative vehicle of choice is the bipartisan H.R. 1153, the Mortgage Choice Act (not to be confused with the far more comprehensive, and controversial, Financial CHOICE Act). The measure was introduced in February by ...