Originations

Mortgage Builder is seeing a large spike in the number of people utilizing their work groups talking about key industry issues.

CoesterVMS has launched a self-serve online platform that allows lenders to verify compliance with all third-party regulations set forth by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau every time an appraisal is completed.

Consumers historically have not made decisions in the same way investors do when it comes to mortgages, but that may be changing.

The top originators believe they are the owners of their occupation and they act accordingly.

The broker business is going to be growing over the next two-to-three years.

Median closing costs went up 0.4% between December 2012 and March of this year.

Hudson City lost 5.47% in Friday trading, making it the worse performing Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stock.

A Mortgage Grapevine poster, a former originator who now does real estate sales, is asking why no one is doing or even discussing assumable conventional loans.

While praising the mortgage industry for the promising amount of customer relief delivered so far, Joseph A. Smith Jr., monitor of the national mortgage settlement has three specific concerns in his 2013 agenda.

In a few years, the commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy program could have enough California volume to bundle the bonds for public sale.

Wells Fargo’s mortgage volume fell in consecutive three-month periods during the fourth quarter, but its mortgage banking income increased.

Since the final loan officer compensation rule came out, many have been trying to figure out who exactly is considered an “originator.”

Washington and Los Angeles are the two markets that Redfin feels are right now most vulnerable to another housing bubble.

The mortgage banking operation at JPMorgan Chase reported first-quarter net income of $673 million.

Fannie Mae will be sending out first loan file requests in June under its new data review procedures for loans originated after Dec. 31.

Starwood Property Trust is the lead on a group of lenders which is funding a $475 million construction loan to Related Cos. and Oxford Property Group to build the first tower of the Hudson Yards Project on the West Side of Manhattan.

Of the 17 Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks, eight went up, eight declined and one was unchanged.

Carrington Mortgage Services has hired 14 account executives for its wholesale lending division as part of its efforts to expand both product and market reach.

A loan originator posts on the Mortgage Grapevine that even though he or she is in California, the company this person works for only has them licensed to originate loans in Florida.