Mon, Feb 10 2014, 10:36 AM
Things can be
misleading out there, and occasionally non-depository mortgage bankers
wonder about becoming licensed in other states. The best sour...
Fri, Feb 7 2014, 10:54 AM
"If
you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
This African proverb could apply to bicycle racing, but more importantly
...
Thu, Feb 6 2014, 10:55 AM
In the legal arena, the industry took note this week that JPMorgan Chase & Co. reached a settlement
with the United States Attorney's Office for the...
Wed, Feb 5 2014, 10:28 AM
The CFPB is expected to spend a lot of time in 2014 on the
closing process , and it has a round of public comments due February 7.
It was put out...
Tue, Feb 4 2014, 10:32 AM
According
to splashdata the top five list of worst passwords is: 1) 123456, 2)
Password, 3) 12345678, 4) QWERTY, and 5) abc123. Hey, how do they k...
Mon, Feb 3 2014, 9:14 AM
I have decided that I am ready, mentally and physically, to win $1 billion - and it is out there for the taking. Quicken
Loans is offering a $1 bi...
Fri, Jan 31 2014, 10:23 AM
As
a reminder, since I am still being asked about it, along with a number
announcements and policy amendments taking effect on the 1 st of Januar...
Thu, Jan 30 2014, 10:02 AM
The industry is changing. The first half of 2013 is a distant, fond
memory for residential lenders. Subprime, non-prime - what's the diff? Business...
Wed, Jan 29 2014, 10:40 AM
"After much discussion, research and deliberation, Mortgage
Services III (MSI) has decided to exit the Wholesale Mortgage Broker
and Non-Regulat...
Tue, Jan 28 2014, 9:37 AM
Just when we think everything is quiet on the appraisal front, Kate Berry with American Banker writes that Fannie Mae has created a blacklist for app...
Mon, Jan 27 2014, 11:29 AM
"Rob, can our investors, vendors, Realtor clients, warehouse banks, and so on, influence our hiring practices?" My kneejerk answer is that in this co...
Fri, Jan 24 2014, 10:29 AM
Just like the industry counted down to QM, now we can count down to
Girl Scout Cookie Season! We have about 16 days - but there is a lot
about the...
Thu, Jan 23 2014, 10:56 AM
All is not bleak in residential lending. Note that yesterday
the MBA reported applications rose 4.7% last week versus +11.9% the
previous week. ...
Wed, Jan 22 2014, 9:40 AM
The
residential lending industry and the companies inside of it are always
in a state of flux. I am repeatedly hearing, "We're keeping a close ey...
Tue, Jan 21 2014, 10:04 AM
How 'bout that Chinese housing market? New
home sales last year exceeded $1 trillion for the first time as
property prices in cities the governm...
Fri, Jan 17 2014, 10:42 AM
"The
check's in the mail!" Hah! The Fed reports the number of checks paid
has declined from close to $50B in the 1990s to about $20B. With tax...
Thu, Jan 16 2014, 10:42 AM
I just read that last year 4,213,157 people got married. I don’t want
to start any trouble, but shouldn’t that be an even number? While we’re
goss...
Wed, Jan 15 2014, 10:36 AM
It looks like the industry
did about $1.75 trillion in 2013, and the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) lowered its forecast
for mortgage origin...
Tue, Jan 14 2014, 9:54 AM
They
say a good writer will grab the reader's attention within the first three
sentences, and never let it go. I don't think I'm qualified to judge
...
Mon, Jan 13 2014, 10:02 AM
First Community Mortgage announced its new expanded TPO/supervised correspondent channel to include a full delegated correspondent
platform. "While...
Fri, Jan 10 2014, 10:44 AM
It's
here. Effective today, QM rules the land.
What does the public see regarding QM (apart from Cordray on the Daily Show )? Here you go .
...
Thu, Jan 9 2014, 9:54 AM
There were a lot of happy lenders
yesterday when they learned that the FHFA's new director, Mel Watt, announced that he intends to delay guarantee ...
Wed, Jan 8 2014, 10:48 AM
This
morning we learned from the MBA's poll of 75% of retail lenders that
residential mortgage applications in the U.S. rose last week
as refin...
Tue, Jan 7 2014, 9:43 AM
"Teach your children about taxes: eat 30% of their ice cream."
They'll also learn something about percentages. If 30% of cities have
rebounded to ...
Mon, Jan 6 2014, 11:18 AM
So
here we are at the in the first full week of 2014 - and we have some
important things that will definitely impact residential mortgage
len...
Fri, Jan 3 2014, 12:07 PM
Last
Saturday I mentioned a misspelling in a mortgage document ("...MERS holds
leugal title..."). It turns out that it is not a MERS or Fannie iss...
Thu, Jan 2 2014, 10:05 AM
The U.S. Census Bureau projected that on Jan. 1, 2014, the United States population was 317,297,938.
This represents an increase of 2,218,622, or ...
Tue, Dec 31 2013, 11:39 AM
Thanks to FAMC
for sponsoring the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl . It was
some great publicity for FAMC and the industry. And this is...
Mon, Dec 30 2013, 9:51 AM
Bloomberg reports Blackstone has purchased 41,000 homes across the US in the past 2 years to become the largest single family landlord in the countr...
Fri, Dec 27 2013, 10:46 AM
Water
water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. A growing number of Realtors
are keenly aware of the increasing concern about water and its
sc...
Thu, Dec 26 2013, 10:27 AM
Echoing
what lock desks are seeing, and once again causing some lenders and
Realtors to take a fresh look at overhead, the MBA Mortgage Applicatio...
Tue, Dec 24 2013, 11:46 AM
A
couple was Christmas shopping at the mall. The wife turns around to
find that her husband had disappeared. Upset, she calls him on his
cellpho...
Mon, Dec 23 2013, 10:04 AM
Before
we delve into the agency, lender, and investor news, here is some
holiday cheer....maybe. On December 9th, the Federal Reserve released its...
Fri, Dec 20 2013, 10:44 AM
Borrowers
have saved countless billions by refinancing over the last few years.
But they aren't the only ones saving money: the Treasury Departmen...
Thu, Dec 19 2013, 10:30 AM
Sometimes
common sense seems to leave the markets, but then again, traders are
smarter than the rest of us, right? "Beginning in January, the Comm...
Wed, Dec 18 2013, 11:56 AM
US household net worth was
$77 trillion as of the end of Q3, up $1.9T Q/Q. In the third quarter, the
value of corporate equities and mutual funds o...
Tue, Dec 17 2013, 10:59 AM
Clients of Franklin American received this e-mail yesterday: “Due to the market environment and regulatory concerns, Franklin American will be remo...
Mon, Dec 16 2013, 10:18 AM
The value of
US pensions has soared this year. Per JPMorgan Chase, pensions now cover 96% of future obligations! Pension values
have seen the bi...
Fri, Dec 13 2013, 10:11 AM
The
old saying goes, "If there is only one attorney in a town, he'll starve to
death. If there are two attorneys in a town, they'll both get rich." ...
Wed, Dec 11 2013, 10:58 AM
Five US regulators writing the Volcker
rule have ended three years of debate and approved a ban on proprietary
trading by some banks. The Commodit...
Tue, Dec 10 2013, 10:03 AM
Back in the '00s I remember watching
a Discovery Channel show on people summiting Mt. Everest. One of the amateur
climbers matter-of-factly said tha...
Mon, Dec 9 2013, 9:30 AM
My
Dad called me yesterday, wondering if they delivered e-mail on Sundays.
After all, the post office is delivering on Sundays for Amazon, right? ...
Fri, Dec 6 2013, 10:40 AM
In a speech this week to the Consumer Federation of America Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’s Director Richard Cordray said that it is a m...
Thu, Dec 5 2013, 10:37 AM
"A group of government regulators out
hiking in the Artic has managed to revive a caveman who was frozen for
thousands of years. Communications so f...
Wed, Dec 4 2013, 10:49 AM
If you have questions about affiliate fees, and what fees are included in the 3% threshold, the MBA has answers! Here you go , and one more her...
Tue, Dec 3 2013, 10:48 AM
A ccording to the FDIC, there are around 96,341 bank branches
in the country vs. 97,340 a year ago (999 were closed). But SNL reports
bank and...
Mon, Dec 2 2013, 9:25 AM
Planning
on giving out a few things for the holidays to special clients? Think
twice about it! Ken Perry writes, “Hey Rob, as we get closer to the...
Wed, Nov 27 2013, 10:23 AM
A new housing brief from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that median home values in many small counties across the nation held steady after the most re...
Tue, Nov 26 2013, 9:55 AM
In August
2015 there will be a change to the mandatory waiting period (“effective
August 2015 a home BUYER will now have a MANDATORY 3 day waiti...
Mon, Nov 25 2013, 10:12 AM
The
last survey I took was regarding how happy I was with my long-distance
carrier, and ended with me hanging up right in the middle of the
age-...
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