Underwriting

Mortgage lending standards loosened in March, as a swell in jumbo credit helped drive an expansion in availability for the third straight month, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Plaza Home Mortgage has expanded the guidelines of its wholesale and correspondent non-qualified mortgage program to allow using bank statements for documenting income.

Mortgage borrowers don't know about the logistics of applying for a loan, which is the basis for their erroneous ideas about the process, the respondents to the 2019 Top Producers Survey said.

Plaza Home Mortgage's wholesale division has rolled out a one-time close, construction-to-permanent loan that meets Fannie Mae underwriting guidelines.

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Income-related mortgage application fraud risk has the potential to increase as competition rises among buyers during the peak spring season, First American said.

The digital lender rebranded its mortgage business as SoFi Home Loans about four months after it took a step back from real estate finance to redesign its processes.

With the launch of its Medical Professional Mortgage Product, TD Bank is leveraging an opportunity to attract new customers and to address what it says is a knowledge gap among this group of professionals.

The Federal Housing Administration is returning to manual reviews of higher-risk loans it insures because it's finding that a growing share have lower credit scores, higher debt-to-income ratios, or both.

Freddie Mac is broadly offering instant representation and warranty relief for automatically validated self-employment income following a test of the concept last year.