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An inside look at the latest trends in housing regulation and policy, featuring the 2022 Vanguard Honoree, Armando Falcon

Housing Wire

The first is the overall business transformation that’s taking place in the mortgage industry. Home prices have never been higher, pent-up demand stronger and housing inventory tighter. We’re seeing new energy and new initiatives in this area at many mortgage and housing agencies. Because I am.

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AmeriHome plans to go public – Let’s look at the numbers

Housing Wire

AmeriHome on Thursday became the latest mortgage lender to file for a public offering, the latest to do so amid a coronavirus pandemic that has helped spur record origination volume this year. AmeriHome uses the bank Cenlar to subservice 99% of its mortgage loans. And the servicing portfolio – where it earns fees between 25 and 56.5

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Affordable housing inventory is limited due to foreclosure prevention efforts

Housing Wire

A key source of affordable housing inventory was cut in half over the last three years, resulting from well-intended but heavy-handed efforts to keep delinquent borrowers in homes. That key source of affordable housing inventory: distressed properties sold to third-party buyers or repossessed by lenders at foreclosure auction.

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Lenders Not Using AMCs for Appraisals

Appraisal Today

Their volume went up and down with mortgage rates, but they always had some appraisals to fee out. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on new online Fannie forms, highest and best use, real estate market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. More Crazy Appraiser Stories! Just wait.

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USPAP Myths for Appraisers

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on New CA bias classes, 2024 New Years resolutions, 2024 goals, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. Modern Montauk NY ‘Tree House’ Offers Sweeping Oceanfront Views for $7.5M Mortgage applications decreased 9.4 Excerpts: 4 Bedrooms, 4.5

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The End of Lender Appraisals?

Appraisal Today

In a truly Orwellian move, mortgage giant Freddie Mac recently announced its intent to censor an arbitrary collection of words such as “desirable,” “safe,” “well-kept,” “student” and “crime” when they appear, in any context, in the hundreds of thousands of appraisal reports it relies on in mortgage underwriting. They really help.

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Why Appraisal Workfiles Are Important

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on appraiser discrimination lawsuit, waivers, staying positive with slow business, appraiser’s economic forecast, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. Upon arrival, you’re greeted by a lavish motor court leading to timeless modern architecture.