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White label title insurer Proliant adds another franchise

Housing Wire

White label title insurance franchise Proliant Settlement Systems announced Friday the acquisition of Great Northern Title Insurance Agency (GNTIA) in Michigan as a franchisee. It also provides IT infrastructure experts, back-office support, and training for the franchisee. It also operates in Florida.

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As the housing market bottoms out, educating the future mortgage pro becomes paramount

Housing Wire

This figure was down 15% year over year and 18% below the peak of 420,000 employees in July 2021, when the 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged less than 3%. In 2021, Gigliotti created Axis 360 Lift , an online academy designed to educate aspiring mortgage and title professionals. But some are completely fresh to the field.

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Feds seek to enlist real estate agents in anti-corruption push

Housing Wire

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network , or FinCEN, is floating a proposed anti-money laundering rule that could impose reporting mandates on a broad swath of professionals in the residential real estate market, including real estate agents, brokers, attorneys, title insurance companies and settlement agents. The agency also pointed to U.S.

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Tighter Lending Policies Change the Landscape of Condo Mortgage Eligibility for Buyers

Lamacchia Realty

Buyers hoping to purchase condos have been under more stringent lending regulations over the past three years, initially under temporary guidelines that were later made permanent. These regulations included two changes, the first to Significant Deferred Maintenance/Special Assessments and secondly to Insurance Deductibles.

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Tighter enforcement environment won’t just affect lenders

Housing Wire

2021 is already shaping up to be a vastly different year than 2020 for the mortgage and real estate industry, and it’s not only because we’re entering a purchase market. They’ll also be measuring new legislation/regulation and possibly greater enforcement by various state departments of insurance, state bar associations and more.

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These mortgage lenders have cut jobs in 2022

Housing Wire

By some estimates, origination volume will fall in 2022 to about $2 trillion, about half the volume from the record-breaking years of 2021 and 2020. Wells Fargo , one of the nation’s largest banks, had at least 114 layoffs in its home lending business following a drop in revenue in that division in the first quarter of 2022.

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The fight to standardize educational training for LOs

Housing Wire

Federal regulations mandate that nonbank LOs take training prior to being certified. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Reserve System , and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) oversee and regulate the activities of banks. HMDA, Fair Lending etc.,” Learning materials up to par?

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