Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

to evaluate allegations of federal securities laws violations, prompted by a former top executive’s recent lawsuit. The post SEC looking at Better.com over alleged securities law violations appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

Starting in March 2023, lenders for conventional mortgages will be required to furnish information about borrowers’ language preference and housing counseling, the agency said on Tuesday. The CFPB already receives race and ethnicity data via its Home Mortgage Disclosure Act rule. million to settle the charges.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Friday announced that it has reached a settlement with four attorneys and their company, Consumer First Legal Group , over a long-running enforcement case regarding what the bureau called a foreclosure relief scam. Consumer First Legal Group and four attorneys — Thomas G.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Freedom Mortgage were handed minor setbacks by the presiding and magistrate judges, respectively, in a case that the regulator brought in widespread violations in its 2020 submission of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data. The original case was filed in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

An action taken that is determined to be “arbitrary and capricious” would translate into “willful and unreasonable action without consideration or regard for the facts and circumstances,” according to Cornell Law School ’s Legal Information Institute. Presiding Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled in the U.S. The judge largely disagreed.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Many of these laws target specific types of real estate deemed crucial to national security, such as farmland or property near military installations, while other laws apply more broadly to all types of land. Laws should also be clear on the role title insurance professionals play in facilitating transactions with foreign owners.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

High-profile government actions against some of the nation’s largest financial firms for alleged violations of fair lending laws and loan servicing principles have sent a sobering message to industry CEOs and their boards: the buck stops at the top. Just ask the ones who in the recent past have lost their jobs or faced reputational damage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to help ensure people can hold covered mortgage servicers and other debt collectors responsible when they charge prohibited fees.” The agencies claim that this is a standard established by legal precedent and “is what Congress intended” when it approved the FDCPA in 1977.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2023

lender United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) notched a partial win in a lawsuit against broker shop America’s MoneyLine (AML) regarding the controversial “ultimatum” it imposed two years ago. However, a declaration that the ultimatum violated antitrust law survived.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

A proprietary reverse mortgage from Finance of America Companies (FOA) now secures the home of Rhode Island ’s honorary historian laureate after the property was returned to the owner after attempts to bequeath it to a nonprofit historical society he founded. This is according to reporting from The Providence Journal.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Current legislative proposals would require states to “mandate a real estate-related disclosure form with specific flood-related questions,” which would require 49 states to “make significant amendments to its laws and regulations” leading to an administrative and enforcement burden, NAR said. 17 unless Congress acts.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

RMK Financial Corporation , which does business as Majestic Home Loans , has been permanently banned by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from the mortgage lending industry following a series of repeat offenses — which occurred despite the CFPB’s law enforcement order issued in 2015. government.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A coalition of 33 state attorneys general filed a motion against PHH Mortgage and its predecessor Ocwen Loan Servicing for allegedly charging unlawful servicing fees to nearly one million borrowers. Then, the CFPB announced that it was suing Ocwen for “failing borrowers at every stage of the mortgage servicing process.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

District Court for the Northern District of Texas , Ginnie Mae has filed its response to a lawsuit brought against it by Texas Capital Bank (TCB) saying the warehouse lender lacks standing and discounts the authority the government has to extinguish a lender from its reverse mortgage-backed securities program.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) has moved to dismiss an amended counterclaim filed by broker shop America’s MoneyLine (AML) that accuses the lender of antitrust practices regarding the “ultimatum” it imposed two years ago. However, a declaration that the ultimatum violated antitrust law survived.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Two federal regulators said on Monday that they will double down on scrutiny of mortgage servicers, following complaints of housing rights violations made by military families and veterans. The CFPB will be closely watching mortgage servicers and will hold them accountable for illegal tactics perpetrated against military families.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2023

Governor Maura Healey on Wednesday signed legislation legalizing remote online notarizations ( RON ) to all notaries in the commonwealth. With Healey’s signature, Massachusetts is now the 43rd state to legalize digital real estate closings, which started with Virginia in 2012. The law goes into effect on January 1, 2024.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Originally announced late last year, the new rules seek to modernize the CRA — originally passed by Congress in 1977 and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter that October — by taking advancements including online and mobile banking into account, as well as by addressing systemic inequalities in access to credit.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Department of Labor announced on Wednesday that they found that PrimeLending , a Texas-based retail mortgage bank, violated whistleblower provisions in a case involving two employees who raised consumer fraud concerns. mortgage lender in 2023. Investigators at the U.S. The company’s estimated origination volume was $8.24

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2020

there is one state that has refused to accept remote online notarization laws, even as stay-at-home orders forced many other states to temporarily accept RON. Get $75 off your initial membership with coupon code “intro75” The post The state that may never accept RON mortgage closings appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Top 10 mortgage lender and servicer Newrez sued one of its former executives over multiple allegations, including breach of contract, disclosure of confidential information and unfair competition tied to soliciting several Newrez executives to join a competing lender. 21 in the U.S. the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS) showed.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Mortgage rates had climbed close to the 7% range and he was determined to remain competitive on pricing with rival loan officers in North Carolina. One top-producing California -based loan officer said she was excited when a top 35 mortgage lender tried to recruit her with the promise of multiple pricing buckets.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2021

million to more than 5,300 home mortgage consultants to resolve a pair of class-action legal claims that allege wage-and-hour violations in California, according to the settlement agreement in federal court. Wells Fargo, the largest depository mortgage lender in America, has been plagued by scandals in recent years.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Tiffany Fletcher, senior vice president of operations support and operational risk for VRM Mortgage Services , offers strategies for doing just that, showing how VRM is growing and changing during these unique times. Tiffany Fletcher, VRM Mortgage Services HW: What does the current market and demand for REO assets look like?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2024

Government attorneys deny that TCB “is entitled to any of the relief sought in the complaint,” adding that they deny “[e]ach and every allegation, as well as all inferences, arguments, and legal conclusions based on them.” Attorneys for the U.S. The judge largely disagreed.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2022

All lenders must explain their rationale when denying credit to loan applicants, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau affirmed Thursday, after looking into whether companies claiming exemption because they rely on “complex algorithms” were in violation of federal anti-discrimination law. Presented by: Mortgage Coach.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued orders against Freedom Mortgage Corporation and Realty Connect USA Long Island for illegal kickbacks on Thursday, the first enforcement action associated with the 1974 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act in six years. million for a purported scheme involving mortgage and title kickbacks.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Freedom Mortgage Corporation for allegedly violating the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) and a 2019 consent order by submitting legally required mortgage loan data that “was riddled with errors.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2021

As reverse mortgage loan officers aim to expand their repertoire of advertising methodologies, the use of an advertorial can be powerful but also comes with some caveats that any reverse mortgage loan officer should keep in mind prior to engaging in such advertising campaigns. Now, that simply isn’t the case, Giordano says.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

The presiding judge in the ongoing bankruptcy case of Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF) has approved a stipulation that would resolve an administrative claim made against the company’s estate by reverse mortgage servicing company Celink , authorizing both companies to consummate the agreement.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a new policy statement on Monday that outlines standards for the legal prohibition of abusive conduct in consumer financial markets, summarizing over a decade of precedent. Chopra also issued prepared remarks regarding the new guidance at the University of California Irvine Law School. “In

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A recent lawsuit claims Sprout Mortgage left its warehouse lender FirstFunding holding over $220 million of its debt when the mortgage lender abruptly closed on July 6. Sprout was founded in 2009 by industry veteran Michael Strauss and became “one of the fastest growing non-QM lenders in the country,” according to the lawsuit.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One area in the mortgage and real estate industry that has been evolving for nearly two decades is digital closings. E-mortgage volume spikes. During the first six months of 2020, the Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that the volume of e-mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spiked significantly.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Clinton’s long-standing career in public service, in-depth legal expertise in housing policy and executive leadership skills will help bolster FHFA’s work as a world-class prudential regulator.”. When Calabria first took over as head of the agency, he focused on mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their future in conservatorship.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The lender and servicer informed law enforcement, regulatory authorities and other stakeholders. The company has already resumed buying mortgage servicing rights (MSRs). At this time, however, it’s not possible to quantify the full extent of remediation and legal expenses. Servicing operations resumed on Nov. Mr. Cooper had 4.3

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

An arbitrator conclusion issued last week caps a four-year legal battle over allegations of trade secret theft involving two of the biggest companies in the housing industry, Black Knight Servicing Technologies and PennyMac Financial Services. per share.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

Photo by Antonio Quagliata on Pexels.com Additionally, consider the zoning laws and land-use regulations in the area and what category it might fall into based on its specific location. Start thinking about the financing options available, such as mortgages, loans, and grants, and the associated interest rates, repayment terms, and fees.

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