Compliance

Higher-priced homes in Los Angeles and the Bay Area have been leading the market’s recovery.

Meritage Homes Corp. has commenced a cash tender offer to purchase any and all of its $99,825,000 principal amount 7.731% senior subordinated notes due 2017.

Securitizations that significantly limit repurchases are among structural weaknesses that could prevent residential mortgage-backed securities from getting Moody’s highest rating.

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded 16 of roughly 130 tranches backed by $2 billion in subprime mortgage loans.

Like bartenders and psychologists, distressed debt servicers spend the day listening to people’s problems.

A former member of the rock band KISS is facing mortgage trouble on his upstate New York home.

We're hearing that some of the relative call protection found in Ginnie Mae securitizations may not last.

Sen. Bob Corker released a statement downplaying an earlier report suggesting the lawmaker is "angling to broker a compromise" with President Obama over the confirmation of Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Community bankers have long harbored concerns about fair lending laws, but the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's enforcement potential has executives flat-out spooked.

Post-closing document management has taken on new importance in the mortgage industry, particularly in light of record foreclosure volume, the robo-signing scandal and subsequent regulations and scrutiny.

Mortgage fraud risk through the end of 2012 is at its highest level in three years.

As the overseer of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing Finance Agency has a duty to safeguard taxpayer dollars.

Since 2007 when the volume of delinquent mortgage loans increased to unprecedented levels, while surprised and unprepared, servicers started to reinvent their business and adjust to the new reality.

Credit unions are breathing a little easier that they will not be subject to the raft of new CFPB mortgage rules because they believe they're exempt may be in for a surprise.

National Association of Realtors data show the overall growth in commercial real estate leasing activity seen in most markets in 2012 will gain speed this year and in 2014.

Becky Walzak is concerned credit unions might think outsourcing their servicing means outsourcing the risk.

There are firms going around to lenders promoting that they will check out their title agents and make sure they are in good standing

Moody’s affirmed the speculative grade rating of one interest-only class from a 1997 commercial mortgage-backed securities deal.

Federal Reserve Gov. Jerome Powell said the central bank could revise its plan to eventually sell the securities acquired during its large-scale asset purchases.

When people speak about the cost of non-compliance the first thing people think about are fines levied in connection with investigations. In fact, that is the least of your concerns.