One CEO, whose company continues to sponsor AIME, said he found Casa’s behavior offense but told Inside Mortgage Finance his company will continue to support the organization. “I think that eventually Anthony will be back,” he said in an interview Friday morning, “but I hope he takes this time to reevaluate and improve himself.”
The CFPB says that between 2014 and 2017, Townstone made statements about African Americans and predominantly black neighborhoods that discouraged prospective black applicants...
Overall, refinances accounted for 64.2% of new business compared to a reading of 60.1% the week before. The trade group’s purchase index decreased 6.0%
JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon welcomed the FSOC news, saying during a Q&A session, “We’ve been very consistent that mortgages, believe it or not, are more – far more costly than they should be. Normally, you’d be looking at – if you looked at the 10-year [Treasury] rate which is what, 60 basis points, the mortgage take should be 1.6% or 1.8% instead of 3.3%.”
The venerable agency MBS platform set production records in both the third and fourth quarters of 2019, caught its breath in early 2020, and then rose 12.7% to a new high in the April-June cycle.