Compliance

Most commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquencies peaked at 10.34% in the middle of 2012 and fallen since then, but the 2007 vintage's remain high with an average delinquency rate of 14.6% over the past 12 months, according to Trepp.

Moody’s Investors Service said it would not give any classes of JPMorgan’s new jumbo securitization its top rating due to weaknesses in its structure.

Just about everyone deserves a second chance when it comes to challenges faced in life.

The banking crisis in Cyprus and European market volatility had a bump in the road effect on the performance of securitized commercial mortgage loans.

The appellate court reversed and allowed the plaintiff to sue JPMorgan Chase for fraud and breach of written contract.

There are these times in the rate/economy curve when those who run mortgage businesses have some serious decisions to make.

Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc. is in settlement talks with an investor group that sued the mortgage servicer over auctions of home loans backing securities.

CUNA Mutual has filed claims over $72 million of troubled MBS it bought from RBS Securities that were rated by S&P.

People who worked in the financial industry on the eve of the mortgage meltdown may themselves have believed in the seeming inevitability of rising home prices.

SharperLending LLC has partnered with Equifax to provide its lenders and resellers with a mortgage fraud identification and prevention tool that helps them track a borrower’s credit activity.

The downgrades indicate that the bonds have incurred a principal write-down or are interest-only classes that have a notional balance off of a class that incurred a principal write-down, according to the company.

Expecting the same employees who have been doing refis the past two years to start doing purchase mortgages well may be unrealistic.

Real estate appraisal services provider IRR-Residential, in the wake of a restructuring and spin-off from Integra Realty Resources, has changed its name to Accurity Valuation.

A growing scarcity of well-located finished lots for builders could temporarily put a damper on new home construction momentum, according to a Fitch report.

Under the three-year mortgage initiative, borrowers can receive an equity loan of up to 20% of the value of a new home, which is payable once the home is sold.

Multiple bankruptcies suffered by various developers who have tried to fashion something out of the Ritter Ranch property over the years have resulted in an incomplete infrastructure and a long list of bond default notices.

In July of 2010 a Mr. Johnson-El recorded an Affidavit of “Allodial Title” with the Wayne County Register of Deeds against a certain residential home.

Melanie Feliciano, the chief legal officer at DocMagic, spoke on a panel with Roger Fendelman of Interthinx about vendor management and technology changes resulting from the Dodd-Frank rules.

Despite high unemployment, the recovery in the housing market has created a shortage of carpenters, framers, roofers, and plumbers, according to the National Association of Home Builders.

According to new Census data, home equity losses due to the foreclosure crisis took a toll on household wealth and pushed older Americans deeper in debt.