Stonegate Mortgage Corp., a publicly traded mortgage company focused on originating, financing, and servicing U.S. residential mortgage loans, recently added three new executives to their team.
Read More »Will Underwater Mortgage Borrowers Ever Come Up for Air?
Negative equity is down to 13.1 percent nationwide, but is still a nagging problem choking real growth and limiting new inventory, according to a new report by Zillow.
Read More »CFPB Director: Mortgage Credit is “Still Too Tight, In My View”
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray called attention to the mortgage industry, particularly lenders, in a speech on Wednesday, where he highlighted some of the progress and pitfalls that the housing market faces.
Read More »3 Ways Lenders Can Increase Their Purchase Mortgage Origination Business
Lenders One Interim CEO Dan Goldman sat down with MReport to explain why lenders are so optimistic in the housing market today and what they can do to reach untapped borrowers and grow their origination business.
Read More »It’s Not Your Father’s Mortgage Industry Anymore
Commentary is an ongoing series on theMReport.com that focuses on opinions, ideas, and insights from experts across mortgage banking. Paul Anastos, President of Mortgage Master, explains the evolution that the housing market has gone through over the last few decades and how lending has changed for the better.
Read More »Mortgage Applications Heat Up, but Refinances Cool Down
Stock market and Treasury yield volatility continued last week and so did the downward trend of mortgage rates, which opened up more opportunities for refinancing, but mortgage applicants did not take advantage of theses savings.
Read More »Clayton Holdings Appoints Interim President
Radian Group Inc. announced Wednesday that it has appointed Jeff Tennyson to serve as interim president of Clayton Holdings LLC, the company's principal mortgage and real estate services subsidiary.
Read More »Will the Fed Keep Interest Rates Lower for Longer?
Many in the mortgage industry are beginning to question how much longer will rates remain low. See what economists are predicting the Fed do this month at their monetary policy meeting.
Read More »How Servicers Can Prevent Liens From Cutting into Investor Profits
For some time there have been questions surrounding how servicers can protect the lien rights of their investors with regard to the lien position of Homeowner Association properties, but there are ways to avoid this conflict.
Read More »Genworth Adjusts Borrower Paid Mortgage Insurance Premium
Genworth Mortgage Insurance, a subsidiary of Genworth Financial, Inc., recently announced that it has standardized and simplified its Borrower Paid Mortgage Insurance (BPMI) premium structure.
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