Compliance

There seems be a general consensus that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should eventually be shut down.

After community members complained about the affects plywood and boarded-up windows have on property values and neighborhood blight, Howard Wedren wanted to do something to help these individuals.

There is one observer who is seeing people leaving larger organizations and returning to independent status.

A Credit Suisse prepayment forecast suggests the slowdown in lower coupons last month will continue in March based on rate activity to date.

Sen. Ron Wyden is raising concerns about the business arrangements Lender Processing Services has with mortgage servicers and the billing practices of the default management vendor.

2013 is the year the housing market will see even stronger recovery.

It took two loan modifications to drive down the delinquency rate of securitized commercial mortgage loans in February and keep rolling a nine month trend of steady improvement.

Citing fairness issues, three civil rights groups are calling for revisions of how the Federal Emergency Management Agency delivers housing assistance.

Consumers who were deceived by an operation where scammers posed as a government mortgage assistance program and charged an upfront fee for fraudulent mortgage relief services will soon be receiving reimbursement from this scheme.

Ambac Financial Group has gotten a deadline for satisfying a condition of its reorganization plan extended.

A decision last month by a federal appeals court may have profound effects on how borrowers and lenders approach rescission letters.

Arlington Asset Investment Corp. has priced a public offering of 3 million shares of common stock at a public offering price of $25.50 per share.

The Korea Housing Finance Corp. has issued a rated $500 million cross-border covered bond transaction denominated in U.S. dollars.

The private mortgage insurance industry is lobbying Congress to reduce the role of the Federal Housing Administration, its dominant government rival.

Michael Wilkerson recruited some of congregants to be straw buyers.

Nationstar Mortgage Holdings is taking the unusual step of selling home loans out of securities owned by investors, Credit Suisse Group said.

Liquidations of vintage securitized commercial mortgage loans continue to represent the highest severity losses in a market that is otherwise stabilizing.

A new study reaffirms and quantifies the long-term effect of prepurchase housing education.

Thirty-year conventional prepayment speeds have declined by 11% in the most recent month, according to Credit Suisse.