Officials of the National Association of Mortgage Brokers expect to see the latest effort to propose RESPA reform take shape this Friday, members of the group told attendees at their annual conference.Department of Housing and Urban Development officials are working on a "plan of action" for the latest proposal to reform the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, according to Roy DeLoach, vice president of government affairs at the NAMB. NAMB officials said they believe Washington official' approach is better this time around in that the latter have indicated they want to build an "80% consensus" on the issue. Incoming NAMB president Jim Nabors said the association just wants to make sure the NAMB "is in that 80%."
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Experts aren't forecasting immediate relief and instead are citing silver linings in rate certainty and greater mortgage demand as compared to the same time last year.
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Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said Thursday morning that the central bank recently finalized a new organizational structure for its supervision and regulation division.
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Almost 75% of brokers reported growing non-QM volume in their business over the last three years, and just 3.7% said volume decreased, according to AD Mortgage.
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The Bureau of Economic Analysis' personal consumption expenditures inflation report for May showed that inflation had risen 4.1%, meeting elevated expectations and casting further doubt on the prospects of near-term interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve.
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Critics of the OCC's broad preemption stance say the OCC is resurrecting an approach Congress curtailed after the financial crisis, setting up another Supreme Court test over the balance between federal banking powers and state consumer protections.
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There's broad support for the effort to reduce costs and processes, but the Appraisal Institute warns about reducing property valuation quality control checks.
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