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Lackluster NAHB Home Builder Outlook, Despite Record Rates

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by Tim Rood on May 14 2012, 5:54 PM

Don’t expect much -- or any positive -- movement. Despite record low rates and the lowest historical affordability rates on record, the fundamental issues plaguing new home sales persist . The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo...
Retail Sales Figures and the Refi Plan

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by Tim Rood on May 14 2012, 5:28 PM

The Obama Administration’s plan to refinance all “responsible” homeowners is more about transferring money from long term savers (pension funds and the elderly) to spenders (cash strapped homeowners) in order to boost consumption numbers...
A Call to Action - FHFA’s Strategic Plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

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by Brian O'Reilly on February 22 2012, 2:44 PM

Yesterday the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) issued to Congress its Strategic Plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Conservatorships. Acting Director DeMarco and FHFA staff are to be soundly commended for their work in developing and publishing the...
Effective Implementation of Quality Control Plans

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by Karen Garner on February 15 2012, 4:01 PM

As an FHA approved lender, you are required to have and implement a Quality Control Plan (QCP) . As many lenders have probably figured out, the QC review process is not necessarily intuitive and easily discernible as they would like. For example, are...
Housing Assistance 2012: Another Herculean Task for the FHA

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by Brian Montgomery on February 01 2012, 4:00 PM

Beginning the 37th month of his presidency, the Obama Administration today announced a laundry list of new programs to help struggling homeowners, crack down on abusive lending practices, make mortgage documents easier to read, convert REO to rental,...
Solemn Remembrance of Those Lost Aboard Shuttle Columbia

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by Brian Montgomery on February 01 2012, 3:57 PM

Like countless persons across the world, I watched in quiet disbelief as thousands of pieces of debris streaked across the vast Texas sky the morning of February 1, 2003. Unlike what had transpired in 1986 during the launch of the shuttle Challenger,...
What Should the Government do to Address the Inventory of Foreclosed Properties?

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by Brian Montgomery on January 27 2012, 9:58 AM

Economists calculate that the decline in home prices has cost American homeowners approximately $7 trillion in home equity. Compounding this problem is the fact that the inventory of homes available for sale remains high and there is potential for a significant...
Mr. President, it's Time for a National Housing Policy

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by Brian O'Reilly on January 24 2012, 10:43 AM

Please Mr. President, enough with the one-off responses, it's time for a National Housing Policy. The only thing more predictable than the fact that the President will deliver to Congress a State of the Union Address each year is the speculation that...
Uncertainty 4.0: Will 2012 Exceed Our Low Expecations?

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by Brian Montgomery on January 05 2012, 1:06 PM

The noted science fiction writer Ursula K. LeGuin might have been referring to the present day when she opined that “the only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.” With all due...
Refinance America: In Defense of American Capitalism

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by Brian O'Reilly on October 17 2011, 12:08 PM

In Saturday’s New York Times, Martin S. Feldstein, in an Op Ed entitled “ How to Stop the Drop in Home Values ”, argues that continuing declines in home prices are at the heart of America’s housing crisis and can only be stopped...
Refinance America: A New and Improved Plan

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by Brian O'Reilly on October 06 2011, 3:42 PM

Written By: Brideen Gallagher Vice President, The Collingwood Group Brian O’Reilly raised some very intriguing propositions on dealing with the ever growing issue of borrower income/wealth trapped in deflated, under-water home values. While these...
It’s Time to Refinance America and Time For Washington to Get Out of The Way

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by Brian O'Reilly on September 26 2011, 11:12 AM

Follow up: Refinance America: A New and Improved Plan In a recently published study by the Federal Reserve they confirm what millions of American homeowners know first hand and what most professionals in the housing finance industry have known for over...
Ground Zero Remembrance: 10 Years Later

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by Brian Montgomery on September 09 2011, 10:18 AM

The morning of September 14, 2001, began with a solemn remembrance at the Washington National Cathedral, followed by President George W. Bush's much anticipated visit to Ground Zero. That afternoon, as we helicoptered from McGuire Air Force Base where...
The Issues: Another Government Refinance Program?

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by Manoj Singh, Ph.D on August 30 2011, 11:06 AM

The New York Times is reporting that the government is seriously contemplating a broad-based refinancing of mortgages guaranteed by the two GSEs , Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in an effort to reduce payments by those borrowers who currently cannot refinance...
HUD Enforcement: The Serious Business of Lender Oversight

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by Brian Montgomery on June 28 2011, 8:42 AM

By Brian Montgomery, former FHA Commissioner and Vice Chairman, The Collingwood Group and Karen Garner Wing, Special Advisor to The Collingwood Group and former HUD Quality Assurance Division Manager According to recent news stories, the HUD Office of...

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