As overall first-lien mortgage performance improves with more borrowers maintaining their monthly payments, the need for other loss mitigation actions is dissipating. The OCC’s Mortgage Metrics Report for ...
Read More »The MReport Webcast: Tuesday 3/29/2016
Mortgage contract signings began 2016 on a low note, falling to their lowest level in a year after hitting its highest average year in nearly a decade due ...
Read More »BofA Breaks Free From Financial Crisis Burdens
With the release of the company’s Q1 2016 earnings statement right around the corner, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said in his letter to shareholders in the 2015 Annual Report that the bank is “no longer clouded over by heavy mortgage and crisis-related litigation and operating costs.”
Read More »The MReport Webcast: Monday 3/28/2016
With the days of the recession well in the rearview, housing markets have experienced dramatic growth in home values, and some market values have surpassed previous all-time highs ...
Read More »Economy Receives a Slight Boost—Or Does It?
Residential fixed investment was at its highest level in eight years. How did that figure into the GDP?
Read More »The MReport Webcast: Friday 3/25/2016
Fewer mortgage lenders are reporting that they are loosening credit standards, and many do not expect credit to become more accessible over the next few months. Fannie Mae ...
Read More »The MReport Webcast: Thursday 3/24/2016
According to an analysis from NerdWallet, the idea that millennials do not want to be homeowners is false, and in fact, the majority of this generation would prefer owning ...
Read More »Teeing Up the Single-Family Rental Market for Investors
What does a new investor just entering the SFR space need to know? Fiona Simmonds of B2R Finance and Mike Ryan of RE/MAX discuss the possibilities with MReport.
Read More »The MReport Webcast: Wednesday 3/23/2016
Starting March 31, more lenders will qualify for small, rural crediting provisions, thanks to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new ruling announced Tuesday. according to the CFPB, the ...
Read More »Hensarling, Shelby to HUD and FHFA: Don’t Change a Thing
Hensarling and Shelby said campaigns that criticize the open and competitive NPL sales process are “based on a false notion that doing so is somehow contrary to the goal of ‘neighborhood stabilization.’”
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