Black Knight, Inc., a Jacksonville, Florida-based provider of software, data, and analytics solutions to the mortgage and consumer loan, real estate, and capital market verticals, announced that affiliates ...
Read More »Dodd-Frank Modification Bill to Benefit Small Lenders
The United States Senate today voted to advance S. 2155, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, after several weeks of debate, amendments, and negotiation. On Wednesday afternoon, the ...
Read More »New Construction Was Solid Last Year, But Not Everywhere
The number of home permits nationally was up 6 percent in 2017, according to a new report by construction industry website ConstructConnect. However, that average belies a wide ...
Read More »Chicago Town Hall Hosts Mortgage and LGBT Leaders
On Wednesday, March 14, 2018, the American Mortgage Diversity Council (AMDC), in partnership with Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) of Chicago, hosted a town hall discussion with leaders from the ...
Read More »Collingwood’s Tim Rood: Evolving Housing to the Next Level
Tim Rood is the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Collingwood Group, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group for the housing and mortgage industries. Collingwood works to identify and secure business ...
Read More »PennyMac Taps Nordis Technologies as Print/Mail Partner
Nordis Technologies, based in Coral Springs, Flordia, has secured a major new customer, PennyMac Financial Services Inc., a leading national residential mortgage lender and loan servicer, for its print ...
Read More »Citadel Rolls Out Program Enhancements for Non-Prime Credit Borrowers
California-based non-prime wholesale residential lender Citadel Servicing Corporation (CSC) has announced a major update to their product platform. Effective immediately, CSC will begin offering a 5/1 Hybrid Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM) ...
Read More »Dean Prober, President of Prober & Raphael, Passes Away
Dean Prober, Senior Partner and President of the California-based firm of Prober & Raphael, has passed away. According to a media statement from Prober & Raphael, Prober passed away on ...
Read More »Carson: Rumors HUD’s Mission Statement is Changing ‘Patently False’
On Thursday, HUD Secretary Ben Carson fired back against accusations that proposed changes to the HUD mission statement represented a rolling back of the agency's commitment to fair housing practices. Carson ...
Read More »Industry Responds to President Trump’s Import Tariffs
On Thursday afternoon, President Trump instituted import tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum. Calling the tariffs a push back against foreign competitors’ “assault on our country,” President Trump signed ...
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