Azstarnet says mortgage analytics firm Digital Risk, noting credit scores such as FICO failed to anticipate many strategic defaulters during the mortgage bust years, has developed a 123 point statistical cluster of borrower, market conditions, and property data which will more accurately predict how an applicant may react to financial […]
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nationalmortgagenews reports Peter Carroll, assistant mortgage manager at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) says the proposed loan officer compensation rule will be significantly different from the original set of guidelines issued in early May when the CFPB first raised the concept of flat fee payments for certain transactions, a
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In the face of mortgage servicers role in the national housing crisis by changing loan terms resulting in borrowers losing their homes, and foreclosing on homes when lenders missed payments, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed a new set of rules to make borrowing more transparent and thus
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HousingWire reports while Rep. Paul Ryan, (R-WI), Gov. Mitt Romney’s running mate for the White House has proposed privatizing “the business of government-owned housing giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, so they no longer expose taxpayers to trillions of dollars’ worth of risk,” and an end to the $188 billion
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The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reports that Federal Housing Authority (FHA) foreclosures started spiked 60% from the first quarter, hitting 1.53%, the highest point in several years. Excluding foreclosures, according to NationalMortgageNews, FHA delinquencies fell to 11.89% from the first quarter’s 12%, while the inventory of FHA foreclosures increased to
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Thirty-three percent of mortgages refinanced through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were closed through the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP), the most since the program began in March 2009. For the first six months of this year, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac processed 422,969 loans through HARP, more than the
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The National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCHSA), a national non-profit that advocates before Congress on behalf of Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs) for affordable housing, reports the number of single-family homes financed by HFAs increased 41% in 2010 over 2009. mortgageorb says according to the 2010 NCHSA Factbook, HFAs financed
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According to OriginationNews, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) wants to standardize training so all loan originators meet the same requirements for fitness, character, and financial responsibility. The new standards would erase some of the differences between bank loan originators and state-licensed LOs created by Congress’ passage of the SAFE
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DailyFinance tells MHProNews Credit Sesame says last year 35 percent of the 50 million U.S. mortgages qualified for refinancing but only 4.5 million borrowers did. Why? One reason, according to Kelli Dudley of DePaul University in Chicago, is “The mortgage foreclosure fiasco has had a major mental health cost for
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In an attempt for the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to standardize data on appraisals and mortgages, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have adopted the Uniform Loan Delivery Dataset (ULDD), part of the larger Uniform Mortgage Data Program, whereby lenders are using a common language in reference to the loans and
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ADN reports the Dayton Daily News in Ohio says only about 6,000 of the 140,700 eligible Ohioans who received foreclosure notices 2009-2010 have asked for a review of their case despite the possibility of receiving up to $125,000 if the borrower was not in default when the foreclosure process began.
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Speaking for the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) at a hearing on the impact of Dodd-Frank mortgage requirements before the House Financial Services subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Wed. July 11, Tom Hodges, General Counsel for Clayton Homes, suggested Congress create a secondary market for manufactured home buyers so
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Writing in OriginationNews, Paul Muolo expresses the mortgage industry’s contempt for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) loan officer compensation proposal, particularly the ‘flat fee’ payments. Some industry officials, thinking the agency is more intent on meeting the deadline of early 2013 than making sure the rule is equitable, are
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NationalMortgageNews reports Freddie Mac says ten out of the last eleven weeks the average fixed-rate 30-year mortgage (FRM) has set new lows, with the week just ending July 5 marking another one at 3.62 percent. The average 15-year FRM fell to 2.89 percent. The average five-year hybrid remained at 2.79
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From Canandaigua, New York writing in MPNnow, Don Semifero offers percentages of differences between a site-built and a manufactured home to make his case to the Victor, NY assessor that they should be assessed at different rates. He ticks off the percentages MH owners lose: 2-3 percent for not owning
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The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that despite the 2008 Congressional “duty to serve” (DTS) directive to the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to establish a secondary market for manufactured housing, including chattel loans, the proposed implementation rule published by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) two years ago
Bloomberg News says following the burst of the housing bubble that put almost 25 percent of U. S. mortgages underwater, home equity in the first quarter rose to $6.7 trillion, its highest level since 2008, as homeowners refinanced their mortgages in droves, the biggest jump, percentage wise, in 60 years.
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HousingWire tells MHProNews.com Zillow reports the 30-year fixed rate mortgage (FRM) dropped three basis points from 3.59 percent last week to 3.56 percent. The rate for a 15-year FRM hit 2.95 percent, while a 5-1 adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) landed at 2.68 percent. Zillow Mortgage Marketplace Director Erin Lantz said she
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Berkshire Hathaway has offered to purchase the loan portfolio and mortgage division of Residential Capital LLC, known as ResCap, which filed for bankruptcy last month, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. A subsidiary of Ally Financial Inc., which make loans to auto buyers and finances auto inventories, and which itself is owned
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EmergingMoney tells MHProNews.com the result of falling oil prices is cheaper financing and less expensive materials, which helps the global real estate market. Lower priced oil means: Lower transportation costs for material shipments and commuters; generally lower rate of inflation which helps keep interest rates down; lower costs of home
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