Mortgages

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the nation’s big three credit reporting firms—Equifax, Experian and TransUnion—each have more than 200 million files on consumers.

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Housing advocates are urging federal banking regulators to extend a special foreclosure review program that is set to stop accepting new applicants Dec. 31.

Credit reporting agencies obtain at least half their information on consumers from credit card companies, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

NorthStar Realty Finance Corp., a commercial mortgage real estate investment trust, has priced its 25 million share common stock public offering at $6.40 per share.

Who needs a lead generation firm when you have hundreds of thousands of customers in-house already?

The National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling program has helped save local governments, lenders and homeowners approximately $920 million.

Triad was the first of the private mortgage insurers to go into run-off as a result of the mortgage crisis.

There’s a new trend among technology vendors that mortgage lenders would be smart to get a handle on.

New loan applications increased by just over 6% for the week ending Dec. 7 with refinancings topping 84% of all new business, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The Dec. 18 online and live auction features six properties that offer central locations, easy access to major interstate and mass transit as well as great visibility for potential buyers.

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods expects the Home Affordable Refinance Program will continue boosting gain-on-sale margins for mortgage bankers.

The secret is out: jumbo lending is hot.

A relatively new government website known as SAM that FHA lenders must check before making a loan has been slowing the origination process since Thanksgiving, particularly for lenders doing multiple searches.

Having a business plan for when refinancings go away.

A bill that would accelerate the process to foreclose mortgages on vacant and abandoned residential properties in New Jersey has been signed by Gov. Chris Christie.

A Fannie Mae survey suggests improved customer attitudes and economic expectations are key to how the mortgage marketplace will look like in 2013.

The mortgage market is responding to future uncertainty by restructuring their processes.

The Dodd-Frank Act has single handedly kept mortgage lenders and servicers on their tiptoes in the past few years and is expected to do the same in 2013.

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