The latest Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey, released on Monday, has a pair of findings that should be distressing to lenders holding both foreclosed real estate (REO) and distressed mortgages. The survey data, gleane...
readmore bank owned real estate, reoThe non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released a working paper entitled An Evaluation of Large-Scale Mortgage Refinancing Programs in which it analyzed a large-scale program that would relax current income and loan-to-value restrictio...
readmore cboHave a bright idea about how the government can best liquidate the current huge inventory of owned real estate (REO) currently held by FHA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Here is your chance to be heard. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHF...
readmore 203(k), affordable housing, BulldozeThe Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey* for the week ending July 29, 2011. Excerpts from the Release... The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 7...
readmore loan demand, MBA, MIPThe Federal Housing Administration's (FHA's) Mortgagee Review Board (MRB) has posted the results of formal actions taken against 240 lenders for failure to meet FHA requirements. The current notice, posted in The Federal Register, is a summary of...
readmore Mortgage Review BoardAlmost 85 percent of large cities showed a decrease in foreclosure activity during the first six months of 2011 according to the Mid-year 2011 Metropolitan Foreclosure Market Report released on Thursday by RealtyTrac. This includes the ten cities...
readmore Auction, default notice, distressed salesThe Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey* for the week ending July 22, 2011. Last week the MBA reported a 23.1 percent increase in the number of refinance applications taken during the week o...
readmore loan demand, MBA, MIPI found the timing of this news to be extra interesting. WHY? Because the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau goes live today! Ironic isn't it? I'm sure consumer advocates and attorneys everywhere are loving this headline (note sarcasm). T...
readmore Loan Servicer, robo-signings, SettlementRealtyTrack has reported a generally downward trend in foreclosure filings since last fall, but the monthly variations tended to mask the magnitude of the trajectory. The mid-year report, released on Thursday, solidifies the impression of an impr...
readmore distressed sales, home prices, realtytracRealtyTrack has reported a generally downward trend in foreclosure filings since last fall, but the monthly variations tended to mask the magnitude of the trajectory. The mid-year report, released on Thursday, solidifies the impression of an impr...
readmore distressed sales, home prices, realtytracThe latest Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey, released on Monday, has a pair of findings that should be distressing to lenders holding both foreclosed real estate (REO) and distressed mortgages. The survey data, gleane…
readmore bank owned real estate, reoThe non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released a working paper entitled An Evaluation of Large-Scale Mortgage Refinancing Programs in which it analyzed a large-scale program that would relax current income and loan-to-value restrictio…
readmore cboHave a bright idea about how the government can best liquidate the current huge inventory of owned real estate (REO) currently held by FHA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Here is your chance to be heard. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHF…
readmore 203(k), affordable housingThe Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey* for the week ending July 29, 2011. Excerpts from the Release… The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 7…
readmore loan demand, MBAThe Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA’s) Mortgagee Review Board (MRB) has posted the results of formal actions taken against 240 lenders for failure to meet FHA requirements. The current notice, posted in The Federal Register, is a summary of…
readmore Mortgage Review BoardAlmost 85 percent of large cities showed a decrease in foreclosure activity during the first six months of 2011 according to the Mid-year 2011 Metropolitan Foreclosure Market Report released on Thursday by RealtyTrac. This includes the ten cities…
readmore Auction, default noticeThe Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey* for the week ending July 22, 2011. Last week the MBA reported a 23.1 percent increase in the number of refinance applications taken during the week o…
readmore loan demand, MBAI found the timing of this news to be extra interesting. WHY? Because the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau goes live today! Ironic isn’t it? I’m sure consumer advocates and attorneys everywhere are loving this headline (note sarcasm). T…
readmore Loan Servicer, robo-signingsRealtyTrack has reported a generally downward trend in foreclosure filings since last fall, but the monthly variations tended to mask the magnitude of the trajectory. The mid-year report, released on Thursday, solidifies the impression of an impr…
readmore distressed sales, home pricesRealtyTrack has reported a generally downward trend in foreclosure filings since last fall, but the monthly variations tended to mask the magnitude of the trajectory. The mid-year report, released on Thursday, solidifies the impression of an impr…
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