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The CEO of SWBC Mortgage discusses her top priorities for the Mortgage Bankers Association, the election, the CFPB's seasoned QM proposal and what to expect at this week's conference.

There will be no cocktail parties, breakfasts, lunches and dinners at this year's annual convention for the Mortgage Bankers Association. Instead of industry folks traveling to Chicago as was planned, arranging meet and greets in the exhibit halls, participants will sit in front of their computers in homes scattered across the country, thanks to the precautions created by the pandemic.

The predominantly white universe of real estate investors may be used to working with people and companies with enough financial resources to have a track record in the business, but historic inequities have limited those opportunities for Black executives.

For many borrowers who might have qualified for conventional financing before the pandemic, non-QM loans are the only path forward toward homeownership.

As financial distress mounted, 12.4% of mortgagors missed payments across the second and third quarters of 2020 — and it could get worse, according to a study from the Mortgage Bankers Association.

This year will top the total volume generated in the housing boom year of 2003. Meanwhile, next year's 30-year FRM is predicted to stay at 2.8%.

In the Philadelphia metropolitan area, the number of homes that sold in 10 days or fewer jumped from about 1,730 in September 2019 to roughly 4,250 last month.

Mortgage companies contended with an average of 1,316 fraud attempts per month in 2020, up from 1,280 in the previous year, according to the latest study by LexisNexis Risk Solutions.