6th Annual National Mortgage News Mortgage Servicing Conference As the housing industry continues to make a recovery from the most recent recession, the theme of this years show in Dallas was shifting gears to build for the future. Some popular topics that were talked about among session panelists and attendees were short sales, strategic defaults strategies and the REO-to-rental initiative.
Looking for a New Servicing Normal Market insiders at the SourceMedia Mortgage Servicing Conference in Dallas set down with Mortgage Servicing News editors to talk about a wide variety of issues that concern the industry. Topics included the foreclosure bulge, the shadow inventory, and others. Participants think that servicing may never go back to normal and instead must invent a new normal for itself. And since the mortgage industry overall is changing, that new normalcy in the mortgage servicing niche is still pretty difficult to define.
The business, one roundtable participant said, has gone from a crisis of credit to a crisis in confidence that shows little sign of being resolved yet.
MBA 2012 National Secondary Market Conference The discussion in a number of panel sessions at the Mortgage Bankers Association National Secondary Market Conference in New York on May 6 through 9, was if, let alone when, private capital would return to the industry. In the exhibit hall, much of the vendor focus was on technology and compliance which would ease that transition. Nary a wholesaler or correspondent aggregator was exhibiting.
Susan Carlson has joined Mason McDuffie Mortgage Corp. as senior vice president.
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2011 Mortgage Technology Steve Fraser Visionary Award The Steve Fraser Visionary Award is a lifetime achievement award that recognizes the accomplishments of an outstanding mortgage technology innovator, visionary or evangelizer. Here are the finalists for the 2011 award.
While appraisers may fear that the GSEs technological progress will crowd out the industrys need and respect for their critical role, those fears are most likely baseless.
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