Addressing pain points currently haunting the mortgage industry, Fort Worth, Texas-based Rapid Reporting has announced major initiatives addressing fraud prevention and buybacks.Rapid Reporting has partnered with collateral valuation and fraud specialist Magellan Lender Services, San Francisco, to give mortgage lenders a complete solution that checks the validity of both borrower and collateral-related data used to evaluate and approve mortgage loan applications. Rapid Reporting will provide borrower-related verifications and Magellan will provide collateral-based verifications to deliver one-stop coverage. Rapid Reporting said it is also offering a Stated Doc Report providing additional IRS-verified information to determine whether information on stated-income loan applications is corroborated by Internal Revenue Service data. No actual numerical data are released in Rapid Reporting's Stated Doc Report, so the integrity of stated-income loans can be maintained.
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The Federal Housing Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Federal Housing Finance Agency have started gathering data and analyzing how climate risk will impact the housing ecosystem.
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A special committee is exploring any possible structural "strategic alternatives," which would be aimed at increasing shareholder value, the real estate investment trust said.
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The top five loan officers produced an average of 628 loans in 2023.
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