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Northpointe Bank to shutter its correspondent lending business

Housing Wire

Northpointe Bank , a regional bank headquartered in Michigan, will walk away from its correspondent lending business to focus on its retail lending, mortgage warehouse financing division and specialty loan servicing business. Northpointe was the 24th largest correspondent lender , according to Inside Mortgage Finance.

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Opinion: FHA should lower Mortgage Insurance Premium

Housing Wire

Written by an independent third-party auditing firm, the study produces a net present value of the total FHA forward and reverse mortgage portfolios. In fact since 2013, as reported in the FHA report to Congress, the average home in America has risen in value by 79.09%. Just look at HUD’s own data on FHA lending: 1.

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Opinion: The risk in cutting FHA insurance premiums

Housing Wire

There has been a flurry of recent articles prognosticating a decrease to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insurance premiums. Several trade groups including the Mortgage Bankers Association have corresponded with the HUD Secretary in support of cuts. At least 137,000 of those borrowers have FHA-insured loans.

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Trade groups express concern to FHFA over historic credit data

Housing Wire

A coalition of trade organizations — including the American Bankers Association (ABA), the Housing Policy Council (HPC), the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and U.S. historical dataset. “We FHFA was comfortable approving VantageScore 4.0 that use trended credit bureau data.

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The housing industry’s disparate impact hopes

Housing Wire

Mortgage industry groups on Tuesday made their voices heard in response to the Department of Housing and Urban Development ’s proposed reinstatement of its 2013 disparate impact rule. But the mortgage industry and HUD don’t see eye-to-eye on how that decision should be taken into account.

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HPC: Delaying final QM Rule “not in public interest”

Housing Wire

The Housing Policy Council sent a letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday expressing its opposition to delaying the implementation of the Final QM Rule and expiration of the 2013 QM Rule, set to take effect on July 1, 2021. 1, 2022 and opened up a comment period.

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CRT protects GSEs, taxpayers from unexpected disasters

Housing Wire

After reading the recent report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency on the performance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’ s credit risk transfer programs, anyone unfamiliar with the purposes of CRT might understandably conclude that the GSEs vastly overpaid capital market investors and insurance providers to transfer credit risk off their books.

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