Compliance & Regulation

The new methodology also includes data on redefaults of modified loans into the servicing quality performance analysis.

The Minnesota Housing Finance Agency hits the market Wednesday with $75 million of tax-exempt homeownership finance bonds.

Mortgage companies that own title companies are worried that the qualified mortgage rule the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is slated to unveil Thursday will penalize the use of affiliated service providers.

JPMorgan Chase asked a federal judge to order the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to cover any costs or liabilities in a bondholder case stemming from the bank’s takeover of Washington Mutual Bank.

Institutional investors of all sizes are reportedly amassing billions of dollars in capital they plan to invest in renting unsold real estate owned inventory.

Under the deal, the 10 servicers will pay $3.2 billion to borrowers and offer an additional $5.5 billion in unspecified "other assistance."

The highest share of consumers in the two-and-a-half year history of Fannie Mae’s housing survey expects home prices to increase in the next 12 months.

A Mortgage Grapevine poster who is an expert in the USDA program has let the community know that the government agency has come out with a new underwriting matrix.

The recent sale of a nearly vacant mall in Kentucky serves as a good case study in unwinding troubled loan participations.

The flat fee compensation concept, which many loan officers in the industry dread, has now spread to the property valuation business.