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Aly J. Yale is a longtime writer and editor from Texas. Her resume boasts positions with The Dallas Morning News, NBC, PBS, and various other regional and national publications. She has also worked with both the Five Star Institute and REO Red Book, as well as various other mortgage industry clients on content strategy, blogging, marketing, and more.

Application Defect Rate Up Amidst Seller’s Market

The rate of defects and fraud in mortgage applications is up. The Defect Index on purchase applications rose 2.4 percent over the month, and for refinance applications, it jumped 3.3 percent. Defects were worse in the Southern part of the U.S.

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Luxury Homes Prices Up; D.C. Sales Spike

Luxury home prices are up more than 4 percent over the year, with Washington, D.C., seeing the biggest spike in price. According to one economist, potential tax cuts for the wealthy may be the cause. Other cities to see high year-over-year luxury home price growth were St. Petersburg, Florida; Portland, Oregon; Paradise, Nevada; West Palm Beach, Florida; and San Francisco.

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Seller ROI Hits Highest Point Since 2007

Home seller ROI has hit an all-time high as of Q1 2017. The average seller now makes a 24 percent return on their original purchase investment, amounting to about $44,000 per sale. This is the highest point for seller ROI since 2007.

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CFPB: Servicers Fail to Protect Borrowers

Through its supervisory activities, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has determined that some mortgage servicers are failing to provide adequate legal protection to struggling borrowers and have therefore violated the law. According to the Bureau’s Supervisory Highlights report released on Wednesday, CFPB examiners also found that some servicers mishandled escrow accounts, kept borrowers in the dark about their potential foreclosure prevention options, prematurely entered the foreclosure process, and sent incomplete bills and statements.

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Flagstar Sees Q1 Revenue Bump

Flagstar Bank is seeing growth across its mortgage service lines, according to the Q1 2017 earnings report released by the bank on Wednesday. Flagstar’s commercial real estate loans jumped 11 percent from Q1 2016 and 58 from Q4 2016. The bank’s mortgage revenues are also up, rising 19 percent for the quarter.

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Fannie Mae Tackles Student Debt Problem

Fannie Mae is now offering three solutions for borrowers with student loan debt. They will allow borrowers to exclude student debt in their debt-to-income ratio, let lenders accept student loan payments on credit reports, and allow borrowers to refinance in order to pay down student debts. Student loan debt is one of the biggest barries to homeownership today.

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Housing Prices Up 6 Percent Over 2016

Home prices are up yet again, both over the month and over the year. The latest House Price Index shows a more than 6 percent uptick over 2016's prices and nearly a full percent jump since January of this year. The most annual growth was seen in the Mountain region.

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Demand Cools Off as Inventory Heats Up

Housing demand is starting to cool off, due largely to low inventory and rising prices. The Oakland, California, market was hit particularly hard in terms of demand for March. Demand hit a record high in January.

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Roostify Hires New CRO

Roostify has hired Frank Gelbart as the organization’s new Chief Revenue Officer. Under his new position, Gelbart will be in charge of managing partner relationships and driving both new and existing streams of revenue. Gelbart previously founded and served as President and CEO at Appfluent Technology, a business intelligence firm eventually acquired by Attunity.

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Black Knight Integrates eSigning Tech into LOS

Black Knight Financial Services has integrated Docutech's Solex, an eSigning technology into its LOS. Lenders can now access Solex, as well as Docutech's ConformX interface. ConformX auto-populates LOS data to make document preparation easier.

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