Who’s That Knocking At The Door? Getting Help In Contacting Borrowers
REQUIRED READING: While reports indicate a decrease in the number of new foreclosures, timelines are escalating for the current volume - often reaching...
Jonathan Corr Tallies Up Industry Data
PERSON OF THE WEEK: The real estate finance world is not lacking data - from government agencies to ratings agencies to trade associations...
When Will Romney Offer Policy Specifics?
BLOG VIEW: Election Day is four months away, and the Mitt Romney campaign appears to have settled into a bizarre strategy: Have the...
Shadow Banking After The Financial Crisis
WORD ON THE STREET: Ideally, a regulatory response to the shadow banking system would be grounded in a full understanding of the dynamics...
So You Want To Expand Into Correspondent Lending?
REQUIRED READING: Part of business success involves being in the right place at the right time. Recent changes in the marketplace have given...
Take Me Home, Country Roads: The Challenge Of Rural Appraisals
REQUIRED READING: If you look at a satellite photograph of the mainland U.S. at night, you can see the illuminating glow from the...
Wil Armstrong On Mortgage Banking’s High-Tech Touch
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Wil Armstrong is in a unique position to consider the state of mortgage banking technology, because he works on...
Is There A Case For Sheila Bair As Romney’s VP Choice?
BLOG VIEW: Over the past few weeks, the political media has been speculating endlessly over which person will be chosen to be Mitt...
The CFPB Takes On The Mortgage Market
WORD ON THE STREET: I have now been at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for a year and a half. It has...
Row, Row, Row Your Boat To Business Success
REQUIRED READING: There are certain works that have survived centuries of human history. Nuggets of gold have been sifted from the bedrock of...
Who Has The Courage To Fill The Correspondent-Lending Void?
REQUIRED READING: There is a void developing in the competitive landscape of correspondent lending. Many former leaders in the sector either have left...
Jim Simcoe And The Greening Of Real Estate
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Over the past few years, the real estate world has embraced an ecological shade of green. From the push...
A New Case Of Reefer Madness
BLOG VIEW: This week's column brings together two very different subjects - commercial real estate and medical marijuana - into a unique dilemma....
Measuring The Resiliency Of U.S. Communities
WORD ON THE STREET: The past few years have been an extraordinary period for all of us. We have endured a financial crisis...
A Warning To Servicers: Beware Of The HOAs!
REQUIRED READING: During the past few years, missing or past-due payments from homeowner associations (HOAs) have crept onto servicers' radar screens, especially when...
Understanding The Challenges Of REO Tenant Management
REQUIRED READING: The Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act (PTFA) of 2009 was designed to extend protections to tenants from the persons or entities...
Frank Nunez: Adventures In The Real Estate Trade
PERSON OF THE WEEK: When Frank Nunez graduated from college in 2007, he faced an economy that was beginning to show signs of...
Another Andrew Cuomo Fiasco
BLOG VIEW: When we last checked in on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in January, he was still displaying the outrageous sense of...
The FDIC Tunes In To The SIFI Channel
WORD ON THE STREET: I would like to take the opportunity to discuss the orderly resolution of systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs). The...
What Can Mortgage Bankers Learn From Kindergarten Students?
REQUIRED READING: Many people fondly recall their kindergarten years, when teachers had a seemingly supernatural power to transform children into students while also...