As we all know, residential application volumes have been climbing now that 30-year FRMs can be had for 4% or less, but as everyone mortgage lender knows this is a cyclical business. Will full-time processors hired today be needed three months from now? Should you hire an outsourcing provider like Grid Financial Services or LPS (or others) to handle your back office volume? These are dicey questions production managers are in the throes of pondering. Some may just decide not chase volume and instead cherry pick the best loans.
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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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In other news, Better Mortgage completed warehouse renewals and Wolters Kluwer provided a new form of access to its digital vault platform for secured parties.
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