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CHLA: Here’s how to modernize ‘short-changed’ Ginnie Mae

Housing Wire

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. This undermines Ginnie Mae’s ability to run a market-driven program.”

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Opinion: What the ICE-Black Knight merger means

Housing Wire

The capital, capability and content are present to make all real estate markets smarter, faster, safer and connected. The result is higher costs, lower productivity, unmeasured quality, and systemic exposure as government monopolies take most of the risk and make most of the money.

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State of the mortgage industry half-time report

Housing Wire

Adjusting to today’s market can be dizzying after the last few years of historically low interest rates and high refinance business. We interviewed more than 25 mortgage industry experts to gather the best insights, strategies, and recommendations to pivot and win in today’s market. Notable trends in a new era of sales.

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The hybrid appraisal is here. Who benefits?

Housing Wire

When we started, the idea was to obtain exterior photos as fast as possible, at a time when Uber, Lyft and marketing technology was advancing, and anyone with a smartphone could get exterior photos,” said Tomaszewski, who worked to turn his idea into ProxyPics. The seller accepts it; they go into contract. An offer comes in at 5 p.m.

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A Push to Artificially Raise Property Values

Appraiserblogs

You can read it here in this link: Class Valuation Appoints EVP Of Valuation Modernization – NMP But if you don’t want to muddle your brain cells very much, here are the highlights: A new CV Executive Vice President has been hired to “focus on removing bias from the “equation” in appraisals.” I added the. the sales comparison approach….

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Help for troubled borrowers is on the way. But will it come soon enough?

Housing Wire

A $250 monthly child tax credit from the federal government for each child also helps the household. Governments and servicers were both quick to launch forbearance programs for over seven million mortgage borrowers during the pandemic, realizing the historic challenge borne out of the Covid-19 pandemic. But will end in December.

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How To Appraise Rural Properties

Appraisal Today

Defining rural properties – USDA and GSEs Challenges of appraising rural properties Appraising rural properties presents unique challenges due to their diverse characteristics and market dynamics. We’ve found five glorious examples of glass houses on the market right now. I am still messed up from the time change last Sunday. =