Law and legal issues

Jason Mitchell, the CEO of The Mitchell Group, called the CFPB's lawsuit against both his company and Rocket Homes "a witch hunt."

The complaint claims over 50 class members and it alleges potential damages exceeding $5 million from the bank.

Changes to buyer broker commissions, along with the National Association of Realtors battle with the Biden Administration, had an impact on how mortgage lenders operated in 2024.

The watchdog accuses Rocket Homes and The Mitchell Group brokerage of initiating a plan to generate origination business for Rocket Mortgage.

Rival lenders lodged suits for poaching, Rocket sued HUD over appraisal bias and a top LO was accused of large-scale mortgage fraud.

Stakeholders in the financial services space, including the IRS and HUD, filed objections to Hometown's proposed liquidation plan.

A borrower alleges the bank made billions of dollars in profit off millions of dollars in rate lock extension fees it wrongly charged mortgage customers.

These are just a few of the legal actions that will have implications for mortgage firms going forward.

American Mortgage Network accused CCM of racketeering for running a "transition desk" to divert loans, claims a judge dismissed.

The correspondent lender says the mortgage cooperative is motivated by its parent Altisource Portfolio Solution's financial struggles.

Feds allegedly reneged on an agreement with the trade group at the onset of the Biden Administration.

Plaintiffs want to certify a class of 119,100 minority mortgage customers who were unfairly deprived of ultra-low mortgage rates during the refi boom.

Plaintiffs have so far failed to prove the government-sponsored enterprise authorized the $25 expedited payoff quote in question, the magistrate ruled.

This is the second short-sale fraud case to make headlines in recent weeks, following the conviction of a New York businessman in November.

Specialized Loan Servicing, now Shellpoint, allegedly failed to send post-bankruptcy consumers monthly statements on dormant second mortgages, the suit claims.

The trade group agreed to the settlement in March, which included paying $418 million to settle claims.

The company, now known as Onity, is challenging a previous interpretation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

The proposed class action lawsuit comes after Anniemac revealed that over 170,000 of its customers may have had their data leaked.

Southern Trust Mortgage claims its former LO, now employed with Movement, stole thousands of confidential files and its customers.

The perpetrators conspired to manipulate the short-sale process following the Great Financial Crisis, allowing them to renovate and flip homes for well above the original selling price and leading to millions in losses for lenders and government insurers.