Compliance & Regulation

An executive says lenders can ease up now that putback risk has been reduced.

He also calls for a cut in fees for title policies, but no one can find where it is in the budget.

ALTA's guidelines have a number of implications for mortgage lenders.

Freddie Mac’s regulator capped its multifamily production at $26 billion last year.

Donovan seeks $5 billion a year to preserve and increase the supply of rentals for extremely low-income families.

The price the bank had to pay related to Countrywide mortgage fraud claims escalated over time, exemplifying the government’s willingness to seek draconian penalties against banks it deems acted intentionally.

Litigants had dropped some objections over the last two years given housing-related improvements in private-label residential mortgage-backed securities performance, according to a Fitch report.

A little-noticed charge taken by Regions Financial in the fourth quarter may portend that other banks have not been adequately reserving for modified home loans, known as troubled debt restructurings.

There's an elephant in the room amidst discussions on how to unwind Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—the two government-sponsored enterprises are now making money hand over fist.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in mortgage-fraud settlements are providing a windfall to state attorneys general—and creating a new class of political winners and losers.