Ralph P. Melbourne has been named senior vice president of the Consumer Direct Division of Home123 Corp., a retail lending subsidiary of New Century Financial Corp., a real estate investment trust based in Irvine, Calif.Mr. Melbourne has nearly 25 years of experience in the mortgage industry, most recently as director of strategic initiatives for Washington Mutual Inc. He was previously director of retail lending at WaMu, and spent 13 years at Citibank in various senior management roles, New Century said. The company can be found online at http://www.ncen.com.
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The servicer will pay $4.5 million in remediation to affected homeowners for incorrectly imposing force-placed insurance on thousands of borrowers.
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The trade group supports a narrow rewrite of the agency's manufactured home definition but it wants FHA valuation projections before lenders can scale.
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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.
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Mortgage production declined overall in July from activity earlier this summer amid growing rate volatility, according to two new originations reports.
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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.
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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.
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