Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Lawmakers from the House of Representatives and the Senate averted a government shutdown on Saturday, just hours ahead from a funding lapse. Passage allows Congress to fund the government for 45 days, provide $16 billion in disaster assistance, and temporarily extend the National Flood Insurance Program. the NAR said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

A brewing crisis is emerging around homeowners insurance and thus far the finance and insurance community has not offered any viable solutions. An overhaul of the homeowners insurance market is in order to prevent an impending catastrophe in the mortgage market. And that’s where policies are available.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2022

The Federal Housing Administration insured thousands of mortgages in 2020 without the mandatory flood insurance coverage. According to the watchdog, at least 31,500 FHA-insured loans insured did not have the required National Flood Insurance Program coverage. Those loans, totaling close to $4.5

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2023

Indian Land, South Carolina-based lender Movement Mortgage has agreed to pay $23.75 million to settle allegations that it improperly originated and underwrote mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) programs. Attorney Carla Freedman said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Under the waiver program, the government sponsored entity (GSE) would bypass traditional title insurance by granting certain mortgage lenders a waiver on title insurance requirements for loans sold to Fannie. In August, however, news broke that Fannie had decided to scrap the pilot program before it had even launched.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In 2013, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) began requiring borrowers to pay the Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP) for the life of an FHA loan. People have equated FHA insurance to that of private mortgage insurance used by the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), which is not life-of-loan.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The same home insurance scenario being played out in states like Florida and California due to elevated risk of natural disasters is becoming more pronounced in the Pacific Northwest according to a new report from the Seattle Times. No violation found.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

The Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA) on Wednesday released a plan that it says would “modernize” Ginnie Mae , the government-owned company that manages the securitization of government-sponsored loans. The second recommendation is a straightforward request to increase the company’s budget.

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Real Estate News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The government announced a plan to cut mortgage insurance rates by 0.3 percentage points, which could save eligible homeowners an average of $800 a year.

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Inman

MARCH 22, 2024

trillion funding bill passed by the House Friday averts a partial government shutdown and extends a critical insurance program that protects 4.7 million homes through the end of September.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2023

The title insurance industry is often bemoaned for being antiquated and making minimal changes, but that has not been the case for the past 12 months. The program would grant certain mortgage lenders a waiver on title insurance requirements for loans sold to Fannie Mae and will be rolled out this spring, according to Politico.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

In late June, Susan Gregory received an estimate for a new homeowner’s insurance policy on her 120-year-old St. Augustine, Florida property, after her previous insurer, United Property and Casualty, went insolvent earlier in the year. This is one of the easiest parts of Florida to insure and costs have gone up over 40%.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

As someone who spent a career in the title insurance industry – both as a builder of a title business and leader of the industry’s trade group, — I am proud of the role we play in helping to protect what most Americans consider the biggest purchase of their lives. Why is a title search necessary for refinancing?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Older adults and people with disabilities are often prone to financial distress, and they may require more resources to better understand their circumstances and options, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Applicants must complete this counseling before receiving a reverse mortgage.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Prior to the advent and widespread use of title insurance, before taking title to a property, the buyer required that the title be free of any rights, interests, liens or encumbrances of others for which the buyer would be responsible for. We haven’t seen any real data based on the conversation that it is going to save money.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The commissioner also discussed the rise in mortgage loan assumptions. “We’re hoping to have a final policy [for the payment supplement partial claim] out before the end of the year, although I will say keep your fingers crossed that we don’t face any lapse in appropriations that would shut down the government.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

To gauge what caught her attention about this space and how reverse mortgages intersect with her work, RMD sat down with Frankowska to discuss how and why she is choosing to become involved in the senior finance space. naturally exposing her more closely to the American reverse mortgage industry. reverse mortgage space.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 29, 2024

Mortgage tax escrow payments for local property owners and government processors continue to serve as a crucial source of revenue for local governments. When homeowners obtain a mortgage, lenders typically establish an escrow account to manage various expenses, including property taxes and insurance premiums.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Fannie Mae generated some buzz last week when it announced it would be accepting written attorney opinion letters in lieu of a title insurance policy “in limited circumstances.”. Title insurance came to be because attorney title opinions were not adequate for the marketplace.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Office of Policy Development and Research is seeking public comment related to application and origination documents for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program, according to a notice published this week in the Federal Register.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

RMK Financial Corporation , which does business as Majestic Home Loans , has been permanently banned by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from the mortgage lending industry following a series of repeat offenses — which occurred despite the CFPB’s law enforcement order issued in 2015. government. government.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A federal judge ordered Ronald McCord, the founder of Oklahoma City-based lender and servicer First Mortgage Company , who was also once the president of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), to pay $51.8 million in restitution for mortgage fraud. billion for the government-sponsored enterprise.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Digital mortgage automation solutions provider Floify is partnering with Truv , a consumer-permissioned data platform, the company announced on Wednesday. The integration allows mortgage lenders to verify income and employment seamlessly as borrowers apply for a loan.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Everyone was waiting to see if this week’s jobs report would send mortgage rates higher, which is what happened last month. From the Fed: In the week ended March 2, initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits were flat, at 217,000. Jobless claims show an expanding economy that has not lost jobs yet. percent, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Redfin classified purchases as all-cash when transactions had no mortgage loan information on the deed. High mortgage rates are exacerbating inequality between people who own homes and people who don’t,” Redfin Senior Economist Sheharyar Bokhari said. In September, government-insured FHA loans represented a little over 15% of U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

While mortgage rates will likely fall this year, conversations about how to increase accessibility to homeownership are still top of mind — and should be top of mind — across the real estate industry. Accounting for geography, differences in title and settlement costs across groups of borrowers were not “economically meaningful.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the letter addressed to FHFA Director Sandra Thompson , the CHLA says that it supports the use of AOLs in lieu of title insurance , “in conjunction with Enterprise mortgage loans, subject to reasonable standards.” We are not asking [to] supplant title insurance, we are asking to try to create this as an option.”

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Eppraisal

JULY 7, 2023

In the previous two blog posts, we discussed fixed-rate mortgages and adjustable-rate mortgages, which are widely used in the United States. In this final installment of our three-part series, we will explore government-insured mortgage loans. What are Government-Insured Mortgage Loans?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Recent cyberattacks at mortgage companies have put the industry in alert mode, executives at top lenders, servicers, tech vendors and investors told HousingWire. According to the tech leader, “it feels like there’s a target on mortgages,” which makes sense considering the types of data and documents these companies deal with.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

When loanDepot announced that it was the victim of a cybersecurity incident in early January, it became the fourth publicly traded mortgage or title firm to absorb an attack in as many months. The recent spate of high-profile cybersecurity incidents kicked off with a data breach at nonbank mortgage lender and servicer Mr. Cooper.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2023

The survey showed that a 20%-plus net share of banks reported having tightened standards on non-qualified-mortgage (QM) jumbo residential loans (21.6%), QM jumbo loans (21.4%) and HELOCs (25%). In contrast, only modest net shares of banks reported tightening standards on GSE-eligible (5.4%) and government loans (7.5%).

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

Under the latest rumored changes to Basel III regulations , large depository institutions would see residential mortgage capital requirements that far exceed international standards, according to a report by Bloomberg. Residential mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by the government-sponsored enterprises wouldn’t be affected by the change.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

According to a Bloomberg report, the bank has already started to offer its mortgage assets to investors in order to transfer the portfolio risks. Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources, reported that NYCB has contacted investors to finance a large portfolio of residential mortgages held by Flagstar Bank. billion in mortgages in 2023.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Unfortunately, too many misconceptions persist among real estate and even mortgage industry professionals about the VA home loan, and those misconceptions have big (and negative) impacts. VA mortgage loans generally provide veterans and active-duty service members with more favorable terms than other loans on the market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Ted Tozer, former president of Ginnie Mae during the Obama administration and current president Alanna McCargo’s most recent Senate-confirmed predecessor, applauded the news that the company is looking into the development of a new Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Security (HMBS) product. That’s all it says.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2022

Some Federal Housing Administration -approved mortgage servicers have routinely flouted the agency’s loan modification program, according to Washington, D.C. 21 letter that a number of mortgage servicers employed by FHA-approved lenders failed to adequately implement loan modification options the FHA introduced in July.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Despite the protests of the title insurance industry, Fitch Ratings does not believe the lender title insurance waiver pilot program for certain refinance transactions announced by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Thursday will have an impact on title insurer ratings.

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