Kymberly Wright has been named director of the correspondent lending division of First Magnus Financial Corp., Tucson, Ariz.Ms. Wright has more than 15 years of experience in mortgage lending, including 13 years with specific responsibility for correspondent lending, First Magnus said. She served as western national account manager in national correspondent sales at Washington Mutual Bank from 2001 to 2006, and she was previously with Chase Manhattan and Fleet Mortgage.
The servicer will pay $4.5 million in remediation to affected homeowners for incorrectly imposing force-placed insurance on thousands of borrowers.
The trade group supports a narrow rewrite of the agency's manufactured home definition but it wants FHA valuation projections before lenders can scale.
Pending home sales, a real-time indicator of homebuying demand, dropped 2.5% to their lowest level since December, according to Redfin's latest report.
Mortgage production declined overall in July from activity earlier this summer amid growing rate volatility, according to two new originations reports.
Long Island-based Dime Commercial Bancshares, which continues to transform itself from a thrift into a commercial bank, is eyeing additional expansion in the Garden State.
In the latest round of posturing between the one-time merger partners, Two Harbors said the filing was part of a "familiar refrain" by UWM to blame others.
