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Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Existing Home Sales Give Back Incentivized Gains. Jobs Still the Main Roadblock After a rising surge from September through November, existing-home sales fell as expected in December after first-time buyers rushed to complete sales...
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Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Mortgage Rates Hit New 2010 Lows as Stocks Sell With lenders still offering the best rates we've seen in over a month and further progress unknown in the rates market, I think most should consider... - Mortgage Rate Watch Fed MBS Purchase...
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Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Home Builders Waiting for Labor Market to Improve. Nervous About Foreclosures Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes declined one point to 15 in January on continuing concerns about the poor job market...
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Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories How Did the Employment Report Affect Mortgage Rates? Today was a CROSSROADS EVENT. We were hoping rising mortgage rates in December was not a function of shifting sentiment in the rates market. We were hoping... - Mortgage Rate Watch...
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Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Pending Home Sales Break Nine Month Growth Streak. 'Chicken or Egg' Dilemma Discussed In the data released today, which reported on contract activity in November, the pending home sales index fell more than expected to 96.0 from a revised...
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Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Addressing Calls for Leadership in 2010 Wise managers know their firm's most valuable asset gets up and goes home everyday. I believe this applies to the industry as a whole. The housing... - MND NewsWire Bank of America Top MBS Underwriter...
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Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories S&P/Case-Shiller: Home Prices Lose Seasonal Support. Momentum Moderating In August, 17 of 20 cities reported month over month appreciations. In September 10 out of 20 cities reported month over month improvements. In October......
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Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Further Exploration into an Ever-Evolving Origination Model If the loan officer is performing much of the front end underwriting and processing using technology – lap tops, websites, PDAs and cell phones, is it... - Community Commentary...
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Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories The Evolution of Origination Processes and Lender Operations Models As we visit mortgage operations around the country, we see many types of business models. Within the broad areas of the mortgage loan life cycle are individual... ...
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Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories FHA Delays Implementation of HVCC Standards I just received an update from the FHA that I believe will spread some holiday cheer. Mr. Jerrold H. Mayer writes re: Delayed Implementation Date for New... - MND NewsWire Existing Home Sales...
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Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Lenders Reprice for the Worse. Mortgage Rates Higher I cannot stress this enough...the rates market is very volatile. If you happen to be floating a loan that is expected to close this month...I WOULD LOCK... - Mortgage Rate Watch New...
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Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories HAMP Waiver Eliminates Trial Period Restart Rule Prior to yesterday's rule change, if the borrower understated his income by more than 25%, the servicer was required to re-qualify the borrower for... - MND NewsWire MBA Report: Mortgage...
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Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories FOMC Upgrades Labor Market. No Real Change in Uncertain Tone The FOMC's most meaningful tweak has been an upgrade to the labor market - "economic activity has continued to pick up and that the deterioration... - MND NewsWire Building...
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Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Exploring the Future of Mortgage Securitization: Covered Bonds Lawmakers aiming to speed development of U.S. covered bonds on Tuesday positioned the securities as an alternative or supplement to mortgage funding programs... - MBS Commentary...
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Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories MBA Expects Higher Rates and Less Originations. Labor Market is Biggest Variable in Housing Forecast The most important factor driving recent declines in real estate market activity and increases in delinquencies and foreclosures has...