American Church Mortgage Co., Minnetonka, Minn., is making a public offering of $23 million of secured investor certificates.The real estate investment trust reports that the offering is being made on a "best-efforts basis." Scott J. Marquis, ACMC's vice president of church loan advisers, told MortgageWire that the certificates will be offered on a "perpetual basis," with ACMC selling as many of them as possible over a one-year period. The REIT makes mortgage loans to churches and other nonprofit religious organizations. Since the offering opened on Oct. 8, about $2.3 million has been raised, according to Mr. Marquis.
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A tour of the technology that banking has run on, dating back to Franklin's anti-counterfeit measures and the bank-note bulletin that preceded American Banker.
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Issuances of new HECM-backed securities dropped off in June on both a monthly and yearly basis, according to a new report from New View Advisors.
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The vote to approve the $12 per share deal, which rejected a hostile bid from UWM Holdings, came following several postponements of a special meeting.
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A mortgage customer claims his data was compromised in a hack last year at a tax and accounting firm reportedly used by the wholesale giant.
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The government-sponsored enterprise clamped down on project review requirements and certain factory-built home appraisals while loosening other guidelines.
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The June jobs report is creating an overhang on economist forecasts for interest rates going forward, especially when combined with recent inflation data.
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