Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

Agents and brokers with access to subscription services made more than 1,000 mortgage referrals to Freedom since 2017, according to the CFPB. This is the CFPB’s first RESPA enforcement action since 2017, when the agency reached a consent order with Sherman Oaks, California-based Prospect Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

Chief Operating Officer Rob Lux was named co-CEO for operations, technology, business development, client management, human resources, and legal. Lux joined the company in 2017 as the chief information officer and was named chief operating officer two years later. year over year, according to Inside Mortgage Finance data.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Then, through his legal counsel, Kortas “asserted that the aviation business is a legitimate business of Nexa and “Grella had consented to some aviation related purchases.” Regarding the $24 million airplane-hangar leasehold, the lawsuit that “Grella informed the seller of the truth of Kortas’ inability to bind Nexa.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

between 2017 and 2021, per the lawsuit. Records show that Colony Ridge accounted for more than 92% of all foreclosures recorded in Liberty Count between 2017 and 2022. However, the loan offered had exorbitant interest rates, ranging from 10.9% To illustrate, a standard 20-year fixed rate was 2.35% to 4.05% during the same period.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

According to the legal filings , Barber’s alleged goal was to take real estate “prospects and leads assigned to other brokers” for “his own personal benefit” and that of the other defendants, Darcy Varney and eXp Realty. Barber had been working for the Harrelson Group on a contract basis since March of 2017. and 5:30 a.m.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Blosser has been leading the association’s data privacy efforts since 2017, and led the association’s role in creating model legislation such as the Remote Online Notarization Act , which was drawn up in collaboration with the Mortgage Bankers Association and the National Association of Realtors. Presented by: WFG.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

I think you will agree that our primary focus must be on furthering the business of the association which means we are fully engages on the legal, business and advocacy challenges that are top priority to you and the clients that you serve.” For Sears, his term as president comes at an increasingly challenging time for the trade group.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2022

In addition, the proposed rule also envisions potentially requiring mandated reporting for trusts — defined, by FinCEN, as a legal “relationship in which one person holds title to property subject to an obligation to keep or use the property for the benefit of another.”. and foreign trusts,” the agency’s proposed rule states. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Covington & Burling LLP is serving as the legal advisor in the decision. Since 2017, Ozonian has been the CEO of the title underwriter and real estate tech services provide, Williston Financial Group. Per Inside Mortgage Finance data, conditions have since worsened – the lender originated just $6.37

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2022

In that role he gives legal and regulatory advice on activities connected with fulfilling Freddie Mac’s mission. In a 2017 exam of the enterprises’ diversity and inclusion efforts, the FHFA wrote of the need to treat diversity and inclusion as an enterprise-level program, “not just an addition to their human resources efforts.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The suit mirrors an earlier, parallel legal action filed in Illinois state court. ” NEXA, founded in 2017 by Kortas , is among the fastest-growing mortgage brokerages in the country. In the federal lawsuit, Smart Mortgage alleges that Noe downloaded Dropbox on his company computer without authorization on Feb.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2021

” “A simple search of his name reveals a history of Shkipin imploring the government to consider legal action against large companies including Amazon, Uber, Lyft, Redfin, Opendoor and others to the benefit of his fledgling startup,” read the statement.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In 2017, the agency announced that it was suing Ocwen for “failing borrowers at every stage of the mortgage servicing process.”. million as of the end of the third quarter of 2021, for legal bills and regulatory matters, including the dispute with the CFPB. “That was the bargain.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2020

NYDFS-licensed mortgage lenders are required to attest annually to compliance with the state’s cybersecurity requirements, which were enacted in March 2017. The timing of the NYDFS’s inaugural enforcement action shows that cybersecurity remains a key priority for the NYDFS, even during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In 2017, the associations collaborated to create standard legislation that is safe for consumers, ensures the transaction can be insurable and is technology neutral. The model legislation creates legal certainty across the country by providing a uniform and consistent framework that is based on a common set of core principles.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2022

To achieve this, a trust is established that legally separates and protects the mortgage loans collateralizing the investors’ bonds from any bankruptcy of the bond issuer or other participants. This legal construct is critical. These trusts operate via a special purpose vehicle, which has no employees and makes no subjective decisions.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Trevor Dickens, 29, worked for loanDepot from 2015-2017 and 2020-2021, at the call center located in Plano (TX), when the company allegedly refused accommodations for his medical needs and subjected him to humiliation and anti-homosexual slurs. . In April 2020, after achieving sobriety, he was re-hired.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Illinois-based Interfirst Mortgage , legally known as Chicago Mortgage Solutions LLC , issued pink slips to employees this month amid forecasts that housing sales are expected to slump even more next year than 2022. billion in 2012, the company decided to shutter its business in 2017.

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Appraiserblogs

MARCH 17, 2021

Valuation Legal warned us about this back in December: Appraiser and AMC Laws to Include Prohibitions Against Discrimination. Bill A5185 and AMC Bill A5146 introduced to the state legislature in New Jersey show just how much state legislators don’t understand the appraisal profession. From Bill A5185: 2. 45:14F-1 et seq.) 45:14F-27 et al.)

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Back in 2017, RealTrends partnered with the California Association of Realtors to study real estate teams. The top benefits mentioned were legal and regulatory support, the brokerage’s brand name and low costs and fees. Back then, principal brokers who formed a company recruited agents to help them take care of referrals.”. The result?

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Miller Samuel

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Current CEO Jim Amorin was made president (for the second time) in 2017. Jim Amorin made it happen in 2017 when he became president. We should be asking AI National: Since the 2017 "taking," how many times did AI National dip into chapter funds to plug the deficit? Here is my favorite chart of the presentation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2023

to plead guilty for filing false securities statements in a $69 million securities fraud case that stems from its 2017 initial public offering ( IPO ) and its annual filings in 2018 and 2019. Department of Justice ( DOJ ) announced this week that it has secured a commitment from Southfield, Michigan-based Sterling Bancorp, Inc.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2022

billion, despite Congress having canceled $16 billion in debt in October 2017. A report published by the Government Accountability Office in July 2021, found that as of August 2020, FEMA’s debt was $20.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2021

In early 2017, after Spirit and Citizens stopped funding his company’s mortgages, McCord sought out a new lender. When mortgage lenders Spirit and Citizens discovered McCord’s mortgage fraud ruse, the two canceled future loans to First Mortgage Company and required McCord to assign the mortgages to the banks.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

In response, Remote Online Notarization, something that had been technically legal on a federal level since the turn of the century and for which technology already existed, became the hot issue of the day. payment amount in 2017?” The rush to digital was no longer just wishful thinking.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

JUNE 18, 2022

Leslie came out of retirement in 2017, specifically to help lead OCA in its mission of helping private landowners in eminent domain and takings situations across the country. Before retirement in 2014, Leslie practiced law for 33 years, mostly with Faegre Baker Daniels (now Faegre Drinker), a law firm with national and international offices.

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Valuation Nation

JANUARY 22, 2020

I knew that it was not only possible but very likely that someone (maybe even a few people) would have a serious issue with my posting the Appraisal Foundation (TAF) tax paperwork showing their president’s salary, David Bunton, from 2017. For Mr. Bunton, that occurred in 2017. I mean no ill intent to Mr. Bunton whatsoever.

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GoForrmz

AUGUST 19, 2022

A 2019 report from the National Association for College Admission Counseling noted a 6% increase in the total number of freshman applicants from 2017 to 2018. ” — NACAS Admission Trends Survey, 2017. But the road to improving university admissions is still being paved.

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Valuation Nation

JANUARY 27, 2020

AGENCY’S TEXAS TWO-STEP PUSHES FOUNDATION CHIEF’S ‘BIFURCATED’ 2017 PAY TO BACK BURNER. Bunton, president of the tiny congressionally authorized nonprofit, wasn’t retired in 2017 and isn’t retired as of this writing in 2020. Author contact: BOIpublishingco@gmail.com. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. A source of confusion: David S.

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The Robert Weiler Company

OCTOBER 15, 2021

How the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Affects You and Your Commercial Real Estate. Franklin County, which includes Columbus, underwent the property reassessment process in 2017. Problems arise when tenants try to act on these provisions while the purchaser is unaware of the legalities. 115-97, was signed on December 22, 2017.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

And in 2017, I decided to go on full-time as a lead agent.”. Since becoming public in 2017, Redfin has consistently reported net income losses, but that seems due to other divisions, including iBuying. Nary an eye was blinked – much less legal action was taken – over these brokerage’s business moves. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

A case between the CFPB and the Law Offices of Crystal Moroney — a law firm served with a civil investigative demand (CID) by the CFPB in 2017 over potential legal violations — led the CFPB to petition to enforce its CID in court in 2020. However, the U.S. Supreme Court case Seila Law LLC v.

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Houston Properties

JANUARY 13, 2021

What’s shocking is (through the end of 2020) about 23% of Houston neighborhoods in specific areas are still selling at LOWER PRICES than before Hurricane Harvey hit in 2017. 2017: #1 Individual Agent, Keller Williams, Texas. 2017: #1 Individual Agent, Keller Williams, Houston. 2017: Texas’ Most Influential Realtors.

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Hood Homes Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Your tax assessment for any year – say 2018 – is based on the sales in your neighborhood from the previous year – 2017. A property’s tax assessment in, say, February, 2019 is still based on sales from 2017. The Tax Assessment Cycle. I’ve personally seen tax assessments off by over $70,000. 65+ or Disabled.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The lawsuit also includes data showing that Townstone drew about 2,700 applicants from 2014 to 2017, with only 1.4% In a statement to HousingWire, Sturner said, “Townstone does not discriminate and no one has ever complained about anything Townstone said on its radio show.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

One significant factor behind the lack of evolution in the appraisal industry is that the American housing market has grown at a much higher rate than the pool of licensed professionals that are legally certified to appraise residential real estate.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 10, 2024

There is administrative time involved, as well as legal factors. This initiative was subsequently reaffirmed in the issuance of VA Circular 26-17-18 in July 2017. On quick review, I see some unintended consequences, as well as some which have been anticipated. First, the burden on borrowers. They start the row.

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