Candidate Clinton noted: “But when community banks and credit unions offer mortgages, they’re looking to invest in their neighborhoods and communities to help them grow and prosper…”
Meanwhile, one mortgage executive told us that earlier in the year Impac approached his shop about a sale. This executive, who did not want his company identified, turned Impac down…
-The average credit score for purchase mortgages securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae during the second quarter was 722.8, down a few points from the first quarter.
UI’s Laurie Goodman said borrowers who took out mortgages in the past five years are better at paying their mortgages than any other group of mortgage borrowers in history.
Ocwen had a 24.2 percent error rate on a metric involving the timeliness of force-placed insurance notices, well above the 5.0 percent error rate allowed under the settlement…
In the fourth quarter of last year, Walter/Ditech made a decision to exit the consumer retail channel, selling branches where possible and laying off staff.
Mortgage warehouse providers ended the second quarter with $55.0 billion of commitments on their books, a 10.0 percent sequential improvement in a red-hot origination market, according to survey figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance. Compared to the same period a year earlier, commitment volumes were up 12.2 percent. But the real story was in lines drawn and “average outstandings,” which rose substantially. At Southwest Bank, for example, its commitment level increased...[Includes one data table]
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