Twelve major mortgage lenders have allied with the NeighborWorks Center for Foreclosure Solutions, Washington, D.C., to launch a campaign to avert foreclosures in demographic and geographic hot spots.The national partnership aims to minimize foreclosures by providing better research and early alert systems, improving counseling capacity, and expanding partnerships among cities, lenders, and servicers. The lenders will provide more than $1 million to the NeighborWorks Center for the campaign, along with trade insights and information, NeighborWorks said. "This show of support from the lending community demonstrates the enormous stake we share with lenders in the effort to stop foreclosures," said Ken Wade, chief executive officer of NeighborWorks America. The participating lenders are Bank of America, Citigroup, Countrywide Home Loans, HSBC-North America, Chase, National City Mortgage Co., New Century Financial Corp., Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC, Option One Mortgage, Residential Capital Corp., Washington Mutual, and Wells Fargo.
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The increasing frequency and severity of droughts was top of mind for panelists at AmeriCatalyst's "Going to Extremes" conference Thursday.
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In a Senate hearing, Director Sandra Thompson said a raise to the required income threshold provided to affordable housing was on the table, while housing regulators also faced questions related to property insurance hikes and title insurance waivers.
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The nonpayment rate for non-qualified mortgages is up 21 basis points from February and 134 basis points from March 2023, Morningstar DBRS said.
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The government mortgage-bond guarantor will require additional information on foreclosure prevention actions, and retire some forbearance reporting.
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But views are split, at least in the near-term on whether rising mortgage rates are holding back the Spring home purchase season.
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The top five producers had an average dollar volume of FHA loans of more than $50 million in 2023.
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