Originations

Major efforts are underway to eliminate discriminatory practices in property valuations.

A former director of digital turned enterprise consultant offers a perspective on how things could have gone differently for the lender that recently exited the forward-mortgage business.

The closure of its nationwide retail business — which followed the shuttering of its consumer direct business in Q2 — pushed the Florida bank into a $1.4 million loss for the most recent quarter.

About half of the Texas-based lenders' offices are transitioning to American Pacific Mortgage, according to a source.

Just because regulators have not initiated any enforcement actions since 2014 doesn't mean they aren't watching.

New York-based broker platform Prevu currently offers buying and selling services in the Northeast, Texas and the West Coast.

But the static weekly data in the Freddie Mac survey does not accurately portray the volatility in the market in recent days.

However, of those that would choose face-to-face interaction, 40% want it to include a hybrid or fully digital process.

Ongoing weakness in housing markets and the economy has now driven purchase activity to its lowest level since 2015, while overall application numbers decreased for the 10th time in 11 weeks.

Mortgage experts generally expect the switch to open up lending and potentially improve the predictability of loan performance — but some are worried about potential costs.

In the first two quarters of the year, the channel's lenders lost an average of 35 basis points for each origination.

 Lenders can utilize blockchain technology to originate fully digital, tokenized mortgage assets on the chain. How does it work, and how can mortgage companies benefit from integrating with this technology?

The regulator believes this transparency into the Uniform Appraisal Dataset records will help combat valuation bias.

The Fed's interest rate hikes are meant to tame inflation, but the secondary impacts on housing could give the central bank a reason to pump the brakes.

The new automation, which processes information on tens of thousands of projects, is designed to be useful to lenders financing single family units.

However, Julia Gordon is now on the record saying that the agency is actively analyzing whether or not to do so, and it's considering the potential magnitude and composition of a reduction.

The agency expects one in five borrowers to be eligible for the new pricing benefits.

The mortgage market is reeling from the central bank's strategy of raising rates and reducing its holdings of mortgage-backed securities. Lenders face the worst headwinds in more than a decade.

The industry is only about a third of the way to where it needs to be, an analyst from the Mortgage Bankers Association said at the trade group's conference Sunday.