Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

This is the result of several forces: the Fed’s anti-inflation policy; the rapid deceleration in lending that’s resulted in a 40% drop in applications; the rising cost of mortgage production, which has now broken the $10,000 per loan threshold; and the continued drive towards digitization in mortgage lending. Because I am.

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Appraisal Today

MARCH 15, 2024

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on USPAP and Personal Inspection, GSE Appraisal Modernization, Transaction costs and values including real estate commissions, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. = Is the GSE’s “Appraisal Modernization” Really Just Mass Appraisal? By Dallas T.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Purveyors of very complex financial instruments, sold to risk-averse investors under the careful oversight of government regulators, have given us a process that must conform to investor and regulatory compliance requirements. Lending technology out of focus. We have fared much better on the automation side.

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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The tremendous growth in the creation of infrastructure for the expansion of major cities, water systems, canals for transportation of goods, road and street systems, inevitably required acquisition of private property. Back in the day, this protected the lender from lending more than the home/property is worth. Lee Miller.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

The government would not build any houses. The plan is in addition to measures the federal government announced in September 2021 that the federal government said would create 100,000 homes in three years. Under Biden’s plan, HUD will also increase the “usability” of its lending for manufactured housing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a series of six spending bills that will avoid a partial shutdown of the federal government while adding some additional budget capacity to Ginnie Mae. The government-owned company has been sounding the alarm over the past year about a need for additional authority from Congress.

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