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NEW Secondary P&L Volatility; Builder Confidence 7-yr High; Cole Taylor up for Grabs?
NEW Wells' Expansion into Real Estate; Non-bank Servicer Growth; RESPA and Affiliate Relationships
NEW LO Overtime Ruling; Jumbo vs. Conforming Rates; Mortgage Companies' Many Risks
NEW CFPB ARM Primer; More on Month-End Closings; Chase and Wells Earnings
NEW Fannie's Non-agency Issuance; Ops and Production Departments Dusting off ARM Manuals
NEW Efforts to Lower costs Continue; Nomura to Roll Out Non-Agency Security
NEW Rising Cost of Compliance; Falling Volumes; Measurement is the First Step Toward Improving Efficiency
NEW The MBA's Work on APOR and Margin Best Practices; Lawsuits; Return of Long Locks
NEW CFPB Update; Investor Updates - Time to Sell Stock? Rates Rise on Unemployment Data
NEW Basel III Approved by Fed - Watch Regulation Costs Rise; Fitch Addresses Nationstar Bonds; Apps Plummet
NEW More on Mini-correspondent Trend, Shrinking Margins, Selling Caps; New Freddie Security; Citi Settles with Fannie
NEW Basel III Vote Tomorrow; More Mini-Corr, Affiliate Relationships, Warehouse Lines, and Brokers
NEW MBA Compliance Tracking Site; Impound Account Site; State-Level News
NEW MBA Reports on Profit/Loan; Underwriting With no Credit Cards; Capital Markets Busy Adjusting Hedges
NEW ABA on GSE Reform Bill; Freddie Changes Low Activity Fee; Affiliated Adds Mini-Corr/Mandatory
NEW Investor changes; HPML issues; MBA Outlines Secondary Market Proposals; Lender Margin Calls on Broker Dealers?
NEW QM's Impact on Lending, NAR and MBA Weigh in on QM and H.R. 1077
NEW Moody's, New Penn, Shellpoint; State-Level Mortgage Changes; are you ready for FMIC?
NEW Las Vegas and Eminent Domain; Dodd-Frank Update; HARP Date Petition; CFPB Reminders
NEW NJ Adopts Uniform State Test; The Supreme Court & Fair Lending; New Non-Agency Security?
NEW Eminent Domain; More on Mini Correspondent; Deducting Mortgage Interest; The Popularity of 15-yr Refis
NEW NAR Testifies on QM; Ocwen Servicing Deal; CFPB Videos; Mergers; Top Ten Funding Defects
NEW Mini Correspondent - The New Paradigm? Agency & Investor Updates
NEW Fannie's Premium Recapture Policy; Margin vs. Volume Formula; How are MBA Applications Counted?
NEW HUD on Interest Calcs, Guidance, ECOA & QM; Why Should You Care About Basel III?
NEW Ex-CFPB Employees Getting Into Non-QM Lending; Correspondents & Reg. B
NEW Genworth Job Cuts; Flood Insurance Across the Nation; Recent Disparate Impact Cases; CFPB Employees Unionize
NEW The Role of Secondary, GSE Stock Prices, Recent Updates, and Move Toward a Single Security
NEW CMLA Proposals; Bad Reverse Mortgage Press; Lots of Training Updates
NEW FHA Addresses Recent Changes, Ramping up Enforcement Actions; Regulators Branching Out
NEW Eminent Domain is Back; More on Affiliates; is HAMP Still Important?
NEW Interpreting QM Revisions; CFPB on Originator Testing, FTC, and Underserved Counties
NEW CFPB Delays One Rule and Tweaks 43% DTI, LO Comp - What Does it Mean?
NEW Rate Move Impacts Lock Volumes; Another Private Jumbo Deal; Solid Ginnie Issuance; Investor Updates
NEW Readers Weigh in on Compensation Based on Channel and Source; QM & ATR
NEW Primer on Current Broker Compensation Plans - BPC & LPC; Reader Input on Different Topics
NEW Government Furlough Days; H.R. 1077's Impact on QM And 3% Limit; MBA on GSE risk sharing
NEW Can't Count on Low Rates Forever, Right? Why QE3 Could be Expensive; HUD disaster relief
NEW Mel Watt Hearings; Current Origination Numbers; Foreclosure Process Slowdown Merely a Hiccup
NEW Freddie's Non-Usage Fees; LO Comp, Land Sales, and Reg. E Tidbits - It's a Compliance World
NEW Texas and Reverse Mortgages; More on Possible Ginnie Changes; Upcoming Training
NEW Ginnie I, II, or...III: Combining the Programs and the Advantages to Originators; Credit Unions Weigh in on QM
NEW Time to Buy Fannie/Freddie Stocks Yet? Mortgage Litigation Tally, Another LPS Settlement
NEW Is The Housing Rally For Real? Panic Locks; a Primer on Texas Cash Out Refis
NEW Reminder on Artificially Low Rates; Lack of Motivation to Lend to Certain Credit Score Borrowers
NEW More on FHA MI & HPML Concerns; CFPB Update on June 1 Change Date; Bank M&A's Continue
NEW CA Eminent Domain Update; More on Venture Capital's Impact on Housing; More State news; Fannie's Profit
NEW Evolution of Correspondent Lending; What Happens if QE3 Ends? Interesting Discrimination Action
NEW Lots of State-Level Licensing Changes; Zillow & Nationstar Stock Prices
NEW FHFA Confines Buying to QM Loans; Nix The Use of Personal E-Mail Addresses; More Lawsuits