Mortgages

Kerry Killinger, former CEO of Washington Mutual, says the asset bubbles and increased consumer debt that contributed to his company's failure are reappearing.

The West Palm Beach, Fla.-based lender sees an opportunity for even more growth after its deal to acquire a servicing portfolio from Texas Capital Bank.

The company says its first quarter net income nearly doubled from its showing in Q4 2020, due in part to cost-cutting and servicing income. It also revealed more information about unauthorized payment drafts by its vendor.

Depressed Treasury yields have kept mortgage rates under 3% recently, but positive economic news could indicate larger increases will follow this week’s uptick.

Only $89 billion of the $362 billion in new single-family volume came from purchase mortgages.

“Low inventory has been a consistent problem,” Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the NAR, said in a statement. “With mortgage rates still very close to record lows and a solid job recovery underway, demand will likely remain high.”

While the government passed sweeping measures last year to prevent mass homelessness among renters, there was no targeted help for mom-and-pop property owners who provide much of America’s affordable housing.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is dismissing claims that loose monetary policy has led to rising home values and shrinking inventory and insists that the market is buoyed by creditworthy borrowers and investors.

A total of 480,000 customers may have been affected by the duplicate drafts and so far it looks like far fewer than 1% of them incurred non-sufficient funds fees, Mr. Cooper said Tuesday.

This is the first deal that serial acquirer FOA has announced since it went public on April 5.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has moved ahead with an earlier proposal to postpone the full adoption of the qualified-mortgage ability-to-repay rule, citing a need to maximize borrowers' credit access.

It would be available to homeowners making 80% or less of their area’s median income who weren't eligible to tap into low rates last year.

After a one-week reprieve, mortgage activity waned again with decreased demand for refinances and extremely low inventory for homebuyers.

The Dallas company will pay nearly $54 million for a 49% stake in a lender that operates in 10 states.

The modifiable templates are a follow-up to a similar notification the organization created in 2019 for lender use.

The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, seeks class action status.

The recent compression allays fears that lenders would have difficulty serving the needs of borrowers with time-sensitive purchase contracts during a peak season.

Despite home purchasing power growing for the 14th consecutive month in February, rising property values and mortgage rates are likely to influence would-be sellers to stay put, according to First American.

Property values climbed 12% in February, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index.

The end of the refinancing boom and impending rise in rates are not the only challenges lenders face. As one observer put it, they "can't make loans on homes that don't exist."