Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., a privately held wholesale mortgage lender based in Ocala, Fla., has announced the formation of a nationwide correspondent lending group.Doug Miller, who formerly served as manager of correspondent programs at Washington Mutual, Citicorp, and HSBC, has been named executive vice president of the new division. TB&W can be found on the Web at http://www.taylorbean.com.
Elevated delinquency levels have not affected expected losses, however, due to home price appreciation, Fitch Ratings said.
Retail lenders, including Beeline, Tomo Mortgage and Rocket Mortgage, settled with the department over infractions like submitting a false certification to not having the proper liquidity to be in the program.
A pair of bills, one with bipartisan support, look to address the issues around heirs' property so these families can have clear title on their homes.
The agreement, in which the real estate giant admits no wrongdoing, will cover around 70,000 agents.
Doxo plans to fight the FTC complaint, which focuses broadly on consumer finance, but there are signs of confusion about the company's role in mortgages too.
Members of the LGBTQ community were most likely to have experienced housing bias, according to a Zillow survey, which also found many people don't recognize how fair lending laws could help.
