Compliance & Regulation

The CoreLogic house price index rose for the fourth consecutive month in June and the vendor’s chief executive expects prices will remain positive during the second-half of this year.

Based on his public comments, DeMarco is not unsympathetic to the plight of underwater (but current) borrowers but there is no doubt in his mind that the adoption of a principal reduction program would spur a massive wave of strategic defaults by GSE mortgagors.

But rest assured, the CFPB will get around to auditing just about every nonbank lender of any decent size.

The web portal will provide homeowners with information that helps them make knowledgeable decisions about what foreclosure alternative options are available to pursue.

Florida regulators are investigating the force-placed insurance industry, the state's insurance commissioner says.

Low-income community revitalization has always been one of the most challenging jobs in housing finance. Both investors and individual buyers are hard to come by these days when cost is an issue for sellers as much as it is for buyers.

Appraisers may have started to change their business practices one at a time probably only a few years ago, but their strategy shift and where they are headed already has started to become clear.

Valued Veterans, an appraisal management company, seeks to train military veterans as real estate appraisers.

Despite signs of a recovery and increased levels of real estate lending, devaluation is expected to lead to defaults at maturity for almost half of all securitized commercial loans monitored by Fitch Ratings.

At Origination News’ discussion with the officers of FAMP at its annual convention in Tampa, national housing correspondent Lew Sichelman asked how the changes to federal law have impacted the state’s education requirements and how conditions are in the various markets that make up this very diverse state.