We're starting to hear solid reports that one decent sized warehouse lender is cutting back its commitments to many nonbank customers. We continue to research the story and hope to have an update for you shortly. The lender is a publicly traded depository in Texas. Meanwhile, in an unrelated development, a new report from CoreLogic estimates that short sale fraud is costing the financial services industry roughly $310 million annually with the risk of "unnecessary losses" occurring in one of every 53 short sale transactions. The average amount of unnecessary loss is $41,500 per transaction, CL says.
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The promotion offers rate cuts as much as 25 basis points on new-home purchases as well as rate-and-term and cash-out refinance loans from May 4 through May 17.
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"In looking at eight currently available proprietary RM products, there is a distinct relationship between HECM growth rates and proprietary product availability," Reverse Market Insight said.
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The top bullet point in Two Harbors' rejection notice is the Mizuho credit facility does not constitute committed financing for UWM to pay for the deal.
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The combination adds to a wave of broader merger and acquisition activity that includes an ongoing bidding war over RoundPoint Mortgage owner Two Harbors
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The litigants, with some of the industry's deepest pockets, may be filing the rare cases to flag and potentially punish bad brokers, one expert said.
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Market watchers think Jerome Powell will maintain a low-key presence on the Fed board as he awaits the release of an inspector general report examining cost overruns at the central bank's headquarters.
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