Private mortgage insurers lost market share in the agency purchase market during the last quarter of 2021, while FHA production shifted toward riskier business.
A California district court found Jawad Nesheiwat, the company’s COO, guilty of providing consumer credit information to student loan debt-relief companies to use in marketing their services.
A Maryland homeowner sought to file a class action against Bank of America for violating a state law requiring banks to pay interest on funds maintained in escrow accounts.
Consumers self-identifying as older Americans filed 1,987 gripes related to mortgages in the first half of 2021, a sharp increase from the same period last year. Conventional mortgages made up most of the complaints.
According to CFPB researchers, renters typically face more financial vulnerability than homeowners and hence had more to gain from some pandemic relief efforts than mortgagors.
The CFPB has made it clear that it’s not buying income share agreement providers’ argument that their products are not loans and hence they don’t have to comply with consumer protection laws.