In response to a recent blog/post I received close to 200 emails from readers who wanted to know more about Bank of America’s future in residential finance – including several from former workers who have landed elsewhere. In short, not only is PennyMac recruiting people away from B of A, but so are CMG Mortgage and MetLife Home Loans. (Note: the recruitment process is a two-way street.) One former manager’s comments sums up the situation best: “I left the company in February due to uncertainty in their business model.”
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Conforming loan limits are determined using a home price index. A congressman is proposing a switch to an income-based metric, creating more jumbo mortgages.
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The effective tax rate, measuring taxes relative to home prices, also increased to its highest mark in five years, according to Attom's analysis.
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The California-based lender announced Wednesday the addition of One Goal Mortgage, a branch serving the Omaha, Nebraska, metro area and Southwest Iowa.
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Better is focusing on its U.S. mortgage unit, which reported higher-than-expected preliminary loan volumes and priced a stock offering.
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A new Basel III proposal offers mixed results for warehouse lending, with some risk-weight relief for banks but tougher terms that could crimp credit availability for nonbank mortgage lenders.
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Roughly a third of homeowners with a mortgage rate less than 6% would not give up their rate for any reason, according to a survey of 1,000 mortgage holders.
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