CFPB Flexes Its Regulatory Muscles
In a report that is essentially a review of recent enforcement actions, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) says it recently uncovered some...
Regulators Approve Final QRM Rule
Federal regulators on Tuesday approved a final, softened version of the Qualified Residential Mortgage (QRM) rule that requires lenders to retain a 5%...
Castro To Lenders: ‘Let’s Work Together’
In his third major speech since becoming secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in July, Julian Castro told...
MBA: Applications For Refinances Jump 23% On Lower Rates
Mortgage application volume increased 11.6% during the week ended Oct. 17, with most of that growth coming from a sharp rise in applications...
FHFA Clarifies Rep And Warranty Framework
In the hope of freeing up more mortgage credit for consumers, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), overseer of government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie...
HUD Awards $38.3 Million To Fight Housing Discrimination
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded $38.3 million to more than 100 fair housing organizations and other nonprofits...
Study: Student Loan Debt Impacting Mortgage Market
Americans ages 20 to 29 saw their student loan debt become a much larger percentage of their overall debt during the past decade...
Wingspan Lays Off Employees At Two Call Centers
With delinquencies and foreclosures dropping precipitously, it would make sense that default servicers would need to scale back their operations. Not only that,...
Fannie Mae: Consumer Attitudes Toward Housing Rebounded In September
After declining the previous two months, consumer attitudes toward the housing market returned to 'modestly positive' in September, according to Fannie Mae's National...
Black Knight: Average Loan Age Reaches High Of 54 Months
Because origination volume has been declining steadily during the past five years (2013 being an exception), the average age of a mortgage has...
Ben Bernanke ‘Unsuccessful’ In Getting Mortgage Refinancing
Ben S. Bernanke is having a hard time refinancing his home loan, the former Federal Reserve chairman reportedly said on Thursday during a...
Real Housewives Stars Sentenced For Mortgage Fraud
Reality finally caught up with Teresa and Giuseppe 'Joe' Giudice, stars of the Bravo reality series 'Real Housewives of New Jersey,' who were...
Judge Denies Fannie And Freddie Investor Claims
A group of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac investors who claimed in a lawsuit that the federal government violated the Constitution when it...
CFPB Fines Title Insurance Company $200K For RESPA Violations
Another title insurance company has become ensnared in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) regulatory dragnet. Michigan-based Lighthouse Title has been fined $200,000...
CFPB Fines Flagstar Bank $37.5 Million For Mortgage Servicing Violations
Flagstar Bank will pay $37.5 million in fines and penalties for failing to comply with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) new mortgage...
New Home Sales Rebounded In August
After tumbling 8.1% in June and another 2.4% in July, sales of new single-family homes rebounded in August, reaching a seasonally adjusted annual...
Castro: It’s ‘Too Hard’ For Most Americans To Get A Mortgage
Saying the regulatory 'pendulum has swung too far in the other direction' and that it's now 'too hard' for most Americans to get...
NAR: Existing-Home Sales Fell 1.8% In August
Existing-home sales were running at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.05 million in August, down 1.8% compared to a downwardly revised 5.14...
Virginia Sues 13 Banks For $1.15B Over Faulty RMBS
New methods for tying losses on pension plans to defaults on poorly underwritten residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) have paved the way for Virginia...
Faced With Falling Volume, Large Lenders Expect To Ease Credit Standards
Large lenders are likely to ease their underwriting standards over the next three months, particularly for non-GSE-eligible and government loans, while smaller lenders...