Mark Fogarty

This third round of quantitative easing may have more effect on the mortgage business because this time, the Fed is targeting mortgage-backed securities for its purchase program.

It’s always good to be read, and one way of knowing if you are is if you get emails in reaction to your columns.

Wouldn’t it be great to have a fail-proof guide on how to avoid mortgage buybacks?

National Mortgage News has now completed three dozen years of publication and is proceeding into its fourth dozen.

I’ve been to hundreds of mortgage meetings, and never once has the topic of the War of 1812 been raised. Until now.

As the Mortgage Bankers Association’s annual conference in Chicago gets closer, I’m remembering what a great mortgage party town the Windy City has been over the years.

Housing bond volume jumped 36.1% between the first half of 2011 and the first half of this year.

There are 14,000 American Indian veterans in New Mexico and the Department of Veterans Affairs Native American Direct Loan closed one mortgage last year.

With the low interest rate environment that still applies (for now), some people have questioned the need for housing finance agencies.

It was a $2.8 million Title VI loan that got a housing project off the ground at the San Felipe Indian pueblo in New Mexico.

Another mortgage season will soon be upon us, and that is the meeting season.

Homebuyer counseling now is centered on the servicing end of the business, rather than the originations side.

The Low Income Housing Tax Credit, the very valuable program that develops new units for affordable housing, is seeing a thinning out of investors in the tax credit, especially insurance companies.

I’ve just seen a vision of the future. Not a vision of the mortgage future, but the future of the media business, as shown by the work of the student journalists who were all over the coverage of the UNITY 12 conference in Vegas.

Nowadays, with people staying in homes for years after defaulting, it takes a lot more than $2,500 to get borrowers to leave.

I recently chaired a successful webinar on CFPB examinations. So successful in fact we will be doing another regulatory compliance webinar on Sept. 27.

Wells Fargo, the country’s largest wholesaler, joins JPMorgan Chase in jettisoning wholesale.

Our National Mortgage News Twitter feed has passed 10,000 followers.

NMN won a silver ASPBE award for the editorials “Big Difference, Depending On Which Loan” and “Unfunded Applications at $1 Trillion,” which appeared on Nov. 7 and Nov. 28, 2011.

While the basic mortgage jobs picture has been flat, there are variations within it. Mortgage banking firms have lost 6,000 jobs, while mortgage brokerages have gained 6,000 jobs.