Secondary Market

Formerly Hope LoanPort, HLP recently announced Mark Cole as their new President and CEO as well as member of the HLP board of directors. Cole is an industry veteran who has devoted his career to the non-profit sector.

Freddie Mac announced on Thursday that Stacey Goodman will join Freddie Mac as EVP and CIO. Her tenure will begin on September 25, 2017. Goodman has over 25 years of technology experience in the financial services industry.

Lenders are doing their best to combat rising home prices to get more people in a home. See the different ways securing a mortgage is getting easier in this Video Spotlight.

FHFA released its May Foreclosure Prevention report, spotlighting data detailing its efforts to help stave off foreclosure. Did they amount to a pound of cure … or is the scale tipping in the wrong direction?

CoreLogic announced that its 4506-T income verification product has fully integrated with Fannie Mae’s Desktop Underwriter platform (UD) to provide Day 1 Certainty service. In November 2016, Fannie ...

We’ve had FICO Score 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and now 9, so why is FICO 4 still the GSE requirement for originators to use?

Nominations are now open for MReport’s Women of Impact list, which features influential female leaders in the housing and mortgage industry. The honorees will be recognized in the magazine’s special Women in Housing issue in September.

The National Mortgage Servicing Association is calling for federal agencies to work together in conjunction with the mortgage servicing community to standardize the treatment of vacant and abandoned properties, a known cause of community blight and haven for crime. The organization submitted a report to the leadership of HUD, CFPB, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, OCC, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac outlining the problem, proposing solutions, and identifying the benefit of each recommendation for the consumer.

Recently, in a roundtable event on community blight in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a town plagued with hundreds of cases of community blight, Senators and experts met to discuss possible solutions. What steps can be taken to curb the disastrous effects of blight? Read on to see three video clips showcasing the highlights of the meeting.

Two Senators could be drafting legislation to split up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to Bloomberg. The move would be made in an effort to increase competitiveness in the secondary mortgage market. What's their plan, and how might it affect the secondary mortgage market?