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One of the first housing-related items on the budget is continued support for industry regulation, in general, and the CFPB, in particular.

You can get a jump on taking preventive and proactive measures against defaults in order to mitigate risk and retain portfolio assets. Here's how.

Accurate data is critical in the mortgage business. Yet, we often forget exactly how much data goes into every loan file, and that the amount of data continues to grow every year.

The level of success we achieve in life has much more to do with our tenacity than our talent.

Intense scrutiny is rarely focused on condemnation clauses in security instruments, but they will set the tone for potentially drawn out litigation as the parties work through the complexities specific to condemnation.

The widespread return of the subprime mortgage business will be the big event for the mortgage industry in 2015.

Many ask whether there is any such thing as a “safe” marketing services agreement for mortgages. The answer, unequivocally, is yes.

The pain and necessary changes in the mortgage industry that stemmed from the housing crisis have forced many lenders and servicers to utilize operating strategies that are reactive in nature and fail to capture the longer-term intrinsic value of today's troubled borrowers.

Two Republican legislators have suggested that affordable housing funding should be put on hold until Congress finally decides what to do about Fannie and Freddie. But why give Congress another six years to fiddle around with housing finance while the poor and homeless face a declining level of government housing assistance?