Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

One of the most important roles we play at ALTA is strongly encouraging buyers to shop around for their title insurance company. The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) ensures that homebuyers always have the legal right to consider alternative title insurance providers and can never be forced into using a particular provider.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2021

Department of Housing and Urban Development declared Wednesday that the Federal Housing Administration will once again back mortgages for immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. are eligible to apply for mortgages backed by the FHA. are not eligible for FHA-insured mortgages.” .”

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

The Community Home Lenders Association (CHLA) sent a letter, signed by 41 independent mortgage banks, to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) on Wednesday urging the administration to cut mortgage insurance premiums. But not everyone is on board. Gordon has supported a premium reduction in the past.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) set the HECM limit at $625,500, an increase from $417,000. The evolving landscape The overall landscape of the reverse mortgage market is subject to change despite the reviewers’ attention to detail and sound predictions, the report said. In 2009, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the White House announced plans to extend the Federal Financing Bank (FFB) risk-sharing program, two prominent housing associations shared their differing perspectives on the move. Shortly after the U.S.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced the reduction of the FHA Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP) today. The down payment hasn’t changed but the cost of the monthly mortgage insurance has decreased putting more money back in the homeowners’ pockets, making homeownership more affordable.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The most recent example of a decline in districts to ll resulted from the 2015-2016 merger of the Seattle and Des Moines institutions into a Des Moines District Bank. When the FHLB Act was adopted in 1932, membership was limited to mortgage lenders (e.g., Short-term advances are not so restricted.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

The Federal Housing Administration ’s (FHA) decision to withhold a mortgage insurance premium cut has confounded mortgage policy experts and industry stakeholders. Ed Golding, who was FHA commissioner from 2015 to 2017, said it’s “likely” budget issues are holding up a MIP reduction.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2021

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. The argument for the higher threshold for claims arose following a 2015 Supreme Court decision which upheld the disparate impact regulation.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2022

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut the country down in 2020, title and settlement professionals were deemed essential and continued to help consumers purchase homes and refinance mortgages. Protecting homeowners is always at the center of the title insurance industry’s core values: to lead, deliver and protect. Fee disclosure is robust.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2022

Lakeview Loan Servicing , one of the nation’s largest issuers of Ginnie Mae securities, is making a play in the private-label securities market by sponsoring an offering backed by a pool of 2,192 Federal Housing Administration -guaranteed mortgages valued at $423.6 A fourth such transaction, a $370.7 A fourth such transaction, a $370.7

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The complaint filed in federal court on Wednesday alleges that from at least 2015 to 2021, Lakeland failed to provide mortgage lending services to Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Newark. million consent order with Trident Mortgage Co., Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

Eric Hill, an Atlanta real estate agent representing a nationwide homebuilder, had a plan to help more than 100 homebuyers get mortgages. In the end, some $850,000 in claims had to be paid on defaulted government-backed mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

Cenlar FSB , the nation’s second-largest mortgage servicer and largest sub-servicer, has installed new leadership following the retirement of its president, CEO and chairman Greg Tornquist. Chief Operating Officer Rob Lux was named co-CEO for operations, technology, business development, client management, human resources, and legal.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

As HUD considers mortgage insurance premium (MIP) changes in the aftermath of FHA’s record-breaking FY 2021 performance with $100 billion of capital reserves and a capital ratio of 8%, it is time to address the “elephant in the room.” bolding added]. Between 2010-2014, FHA raised annual premiums by 145%.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This debate comes at a time when mortgage rates have doubled since the beginning of the year, from around 3.5% to around 7%, giving new urgency to the need to keep mortgage fees down on all federal agency mortgage programs — not just FHA but also VA , Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. 1 way most regular Americans build wealth.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

During her visits, one thing stood out to Golding, who served as the Department of Housing and Urban Development ’s principal deputy assistant secretary from 2015 to 2017. In March 2021, Fudge said that the agency had “no near-term plans” to change FHA’s mortgage insurance premium pricing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

Qualia has created a flexible infrastructure for the real estate and mortgage industry. Real estate transactions require coordination between lenders, title insurers, home buyers, title & escrow companies – the list goes on. Joel Gottsegen, Co-founder. Lucas Hansen, CTO. Nate Baker, CEO.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The case stems from Ginnie Mae’s extinguishment of Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF) from its reverse mortgage-backed securities program. Specifically, TCB was concerned that if Ginnie Mae seized RMF’s [mortgage servicing rights], TCB would face delays in being repaid.” Ginnie Mae accordingly implored TCB to lend money to RMF.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2022

The growth in the number of nonbank financial institutions originating and servicing mortgages and their industry concentration is an unintended consequence of the pull-back in the mortgage business by depository institutions and for some time has represented a gaping hole in managing systemic risk for the industry.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Behind him, the recent financial crisis still cast a cautionary shadow over new business development, but ahead he saw opportunities for a client-centric, tech-focused family of companies in the title insurance and real estate settlement services industry. Now, at WFG’s 10-year anniversary, this vision holds even more relevance.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Few things terrify lenders more than the arrival of a manila envelope from the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) containing a redlining allegation. As some independent mortgage banks have found out, a modern-day redlining allegation does not need to prove intentionality.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Department of Housing and Urban Development. Marcia Fudge on being selected to be nominated as the Secretary of HUD,” said Robert Broeksmit, Mortgage Bankers Association president and CEO. the chairman of the House Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations subcommittee, joined in on congratulating Fudge.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 10, 2024

These policies were the result of a collaborative effort between the GSEs, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). Now there is, per the attached PDF HUD/FHA mortgage letter. The mortgage loan officer handling the loan? The GSE’s have similar policies.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

government, insurance companies and financial institutions as well as asset-backed security issuances and transactions in the private-label residential mortgage-backed securities (MBS) sector. The SEC report also examines market-share information for residential mortgage-backed securities, or MBS. billion — or 68.1%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

The three agencies in charge of such reviews — the Federal Reserve , the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — have not denied a single bank merger in 15 years. And in a March interview with former president Bill Clinton, Department of Housing and Urban Development Sec.

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Will Springer Realtor

MARCH 11, 2024

The soaring prices of insurance and energy have dealt a two-pronged blow to homeowners’ wallets, with no relief in sight. Nationwide, home insurance premiums have surged by an average of 21% year-on-year, as of May 2023, equating to an annual increase of $244 per household. The overall total ranks 15 th in the U.S.,

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On Q Financial

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced on January 19, 2021, that the FHA would once again back mortgages for DACA recipients. are not eligible for FHA-insured mortgages.” However, in 2015, the Obama Administration deemed the “lawful residency” language unclear.

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 21, 2023

Brand your appraisal practice Make it easier for customers to send you referrals by developing a brand that they will remember. 2 Lenders require appraisers to carry E&O insurance because they routinely seek to hold appraisers responsible for loan losses. Mortgage applications decreased 8.8 HOW TO USE THE NUMBERS BELOW.

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Patch of Land

OCTOBER 5, 2018

From 2010 to 2015, federal regulators also began increasing their attention on fintech companies as the number of businesses operating in the space exploded. From January 2015 to December 2017, the Milken Institute uncovered 71 fintech-related legislative bills. Several other things were occurring around the same time.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

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