Category — Industry Buzz
GSA Opts for Web Based Mortgage Mediation Technology
The federal government is putting in place mortgage technology allowing for its workers to track dis...
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December 20, 2011 No Comments
Time needed to Sell All Md.’s Foreclosures: 21 Years
At the rate homes are going on the foreclosure block in Maryland these days, it would take 21 years ...
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November 22, 2011 No Comments
FDIC Expects Fewer Bank Losses than Originally Estimated
Appraiser News Online The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation lowered its projections on estimate...
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October 20, 2011 No Comments
Lawsuit Claims Banks Bilked Veterans During Refinancing Transactions
Evan Nemeroff, National Mortgage News A whistleblower lawsuit filed by two mortgage brokers has bee...
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October 18, 2011 No Comments
Protesters Descend on MBA
Jon Prior, Housing Wire Roughly 150 protesters gathered at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago Monday afte...
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October 18, 2011 No Comments
Coester Leads AMC Sphere
Coester Leads AMC Consolidation Charge with New Acquisition by JACOB GAFFNEY, Housing Wire Coester...
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October 6, 2011 3 Comments
FHFA warns Basel III may increase mortgage rates
-Housingwire Basel III will increase capital requirements for big banks, resulting in higher mortga...
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October 3, 2011 No Comments
Wall Street’s New Watcher
-The Wall Street Journal Two weeks after moving into a skyscraper near Wall Street to start assembl...
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October 3, 2011 No Comments
Freddie Mac Loan Deal Defective, Report Says
-The New York Times Freddie Mac used a flawed analysis when it accepted $1.35 billion from Bank of ...
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September 27, 2011 No Comments
What New Jumbo Mortgage Rules Mean for Expensive Zip Codes
-Yahoo! Finance On Oct. 1, the size of mortgages eligible for purchase by Fannie Mae and Freddie Ma...
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September 26, 2011 No Comments
G.O.P. Urges No Further Fed Stimulus
-The New York Times Even though the financial markets have been counting on the Federal Reserve to ...
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September 26, 2011 No Comments
Fed Runs Risk of Doing Less Than Investors Expect
-The New York Times Investors have concluded that the Federal Reserve will announce new measures to...
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September 26, 2011 No Comments
Fannie and Freddie Could Raise Fees in 2012
-Realty Biz News Analysts believe that the government may need to charge higher fees to lenders and...
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September 26, 2011 1 Comment
Bank regulators to unveil "living will" plan
-Reuters U.S. regulators are set to vote next week on a final rule governing the plans large banks ...
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September 13, 2011 No Comments
20 Ways to Add Curb Appeal
-Better Homes and Gardens If your home's curb appeal makes a great first impression, everyone -- in...
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September 12, 2011 No Comments
Another Fannie servicing portfolio up for sale
-Housingwire MountainView Servicing Group will help sell a $485 million servicing portfolio of Fann...
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September 7, 2011 No Comments
Big banks could tighten lending following FHFA lawsuit: FBR Capital
-Housingwire The decision of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to sue major banks under representa...
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September 7, 2011 No Comments
US Economy Is Basically ‘Still In Recession’: Fed’s Evans
-CNBC The U.S. economic outlook has "clearly" deteriorated this year, and the continued s...
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September 7, 2011 No Comments
UAD Update
-National Association of Appraisers Below is a complete copy of an email from Bob Murphy at Fann...
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August 29, 2011 No Comments
Appraisal Overhaul Pushed Back to Jan 1
-Reverse Mortgage Daily The deadline for implementing new Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD) requireme...
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August 24, 2011 1 Comment
Bernanke’s big Jackson Hole speech could rattle the markets
-MSNBC Whether the Federal Reserve likes it or not, its unprecedented monetary polices over the las...
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August 24, 2011 No Comments
Former Ginnie Mae execs submit GSE reform plans
-Housingwire Former Ginnie Mae presidents Robert Couch and Joseph Murin said the future structure o...
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August 24, 2011 No Comments
Fed’s Low-Rate Pledge Is ‘Inappropriate’: Plosser
-CNBC The Federal Reserve's recent promise to keep rates low for another two years was "inappr...
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August 17, 2011 No Comments
With Bank Failures Mounting, Some Complain of Harsh Exams
-New York Times Financial regulators have taken a public thrashing for going easy on banks before t...
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August 17, 2011 1 Comment
On mortgage rates, Obama wants proposal for how government can keep big role
-Washington Post President Obama has directed a small team of advisers to develop a proposal that w...
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August 17, 2011 No Comments
Sample URAR With Populated UAD Fields – Courtesy T.J. McCarthy
-Appraisal Scoop Good Morning Appraisers, Here is a little something T.J. McCarthy put together t...
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August 16, 2011 No Comments
S&P lowers ratings on Fannie, Freddie
-Housingwire Standard & Poor's lowered the ratings on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Monday after d...
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August 12, 2011 No Comments
Rise in REO value cuts Freddie Mac holding expenses by 90%
-Housingwire Freddie Mac reported $27 million in expenses for maintaining and reselling houses repo...
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August 12, 2011 No Comments
What is Fed weighing as it mulls more easing?
-CNBC The Federal Reserve is considering renewed efforts to boost growth should the weak U.S. econo...
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August 10, 2011 No Comments
If Fed Is Out of Bullets, Are Tax Cuts Only Option?
-CNBC The U.S. Federal Reserve managed to spark a stock rally on Tuesday, but some economists are n...
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August 10, 2011 No Comments
Fed’s Elusive Prescriptions for an Erratic Ailment
-The New York Times The Federal Reserve is back in the spotlight, with investors anxiously wonderin...
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August 9, 2011 No Comments
GSEs suspend Republic Mortgage Insurance
-Housingwire Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will no longer purchase for securitization most mortgages i...
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August 4, 2011 No Comments
Mortgage groups talk up risk retention as comment period ends
-Housingwire Mortgage industry trade groups sent a flurry of letters to federal regulators this wee...
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August 3, 2011 No Comments
Fannie Mae unwind slows down
-Housingwire Mortgage securitization business at Fannie Mae got a little smaller in June, accordin...
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August 2, 2011 No Comments
Senate steps toward new mortgage servicing standard
-Housingwire The Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday to develop a new national mor...
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August 2, 2011 1 Comment
Freddie Mac ready to launch Servicing Success Program
-Housingwire Freddie Mac posted details about its new Servicing Success Program Monday as the gover...
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July 26, 2011 No Comments
Coester Appraisal Group (AMC) Announces UCDP Compliance
Uniform Collateral Data Portal and Uniform Appraisal Dataset July 11, 2011—Rockville, MD—Coest...
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July 11, 2011 No Comments
Rep. Capito: I Give Dodd-Frank a ‘D-’
-CNBC Dodd-Frank, love it or hate it, will be one of they key stories this week as some significant...
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July 11, 2011 No Comments
FHA gives jobless homeowners one-year break
-MSNBC The Obama administration is making it easier for out-of-work homeowners to stay in their hom...
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July 8, 2011 1 Comment
Loan Limit: Will It or Won’t It Hurt Housing?
-CNBC News A few weeks ago the National Association of Home Builders put out a report asserting tha...
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July 6, 2011 No Comments
Some Real Estate Agents Are In Cahoots With Fraudsters
-Huffington Post "Profiteers are able to identify vulnerable homeowners by paying real estate ...
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July 5, 2011 No Comments
An Anomaly Within the Housing Numbers: Washington D.C.
An Anomaly Within the Housing Numbers: Washington D.C.
By: Carrie Bay 06/13/2011
The nation’...
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June 29, 2011 No Comments
Freddie Mac settles with TBW to clean up mortgage mess
-Housingwire Freddie Mac settled with bankrupt mortgage lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker but will...
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June 27, 2011 No Comments
State Watch: Regulating AMC’s
Editor’s Note: Regulation of AMCs by the states is mandated by Dodd-Frank, covering (or not coveri...
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June 22, 2011 3 Comments
Mortgage Buyback Requests Kick into High Gear
Bank of America said it will “ vigorously defend" itself against mounting pressure from federal re...
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June 20, 2011 No Comments
