Bids are being accepted on two portfolios of mortgage servicing rights involving some $290 million of home loans.Interactive Mortgage Advisors, Denver, is brokering the sale of MSRs on a $202 million home loan portfolio of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Federal Home Loan Bank loans. The loans have a weighted average loan balance of $89,493 and are backed predominantly by homes in Utah. Bids are due March 29. A second portfolio totaling $88 million in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans from New York State is being brokered by Mortgage Industry Advisory Corp., New York. The average unpaid balance on that portfolio is $163,014, and bids are due on March 30.
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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.
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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.
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Senior executives making over $151,000 would still be subject to such clauses should the rule go into effect this year.
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Christopher J. Gallo and his aide, Mehmet A. Elmas, allegedly withheld information in mortgage applications, hiding that borrowers were purchasing second home properties.
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Mortgage rates rose 7 basis points this week, Freddie Mac said, and more increases are likely following a weaker than expected gross domestic product report.
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Independent mortgage bankers lost the most money ever on every loan originated last year due to higher rates and lower volumes, an industry trade group said.
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