Professional development

With older appraisers retiring and fewer and fewer college graduates entering the profession, industry observers say that, in five to 10 years, there won't be enough appraisers to handle the volume of home sales. For lenders, that could mean higher appraisal fees and long delays in closing loans — at a time when technology could be speeding up the process.

Benjamin Lawsky will step down next month as New York's top bank regulator after four years, during which he threatened to take away the U.S. charters of some of the world's biggest banks and collected billions of dollars in penalties by being the squeaky wheel in global bank settlements.

The Mortgage Bankers Association has formed three new partnerships in an effort to provide new benefits to members.

Learn how the some of the industry's most successful loan originators get it done with these tricks of the trade from the 2015 Top Producers rankings' top 12 loan officers of the South.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending May 15.

Learn how the some of the industry's most successful loan originators get it done with these tricks of the trade from the 2015 Top Producers rankings' top 12 loan officers of the West.

Implementing minimum requirements for appraisal management companies raise opportunities for varied and potentially inconsistent requirements state-by-state.

Wholesale lenders and their brokers are finding preparing for the new mortgage disclosures that take effect in August especially tricky.

The Federal Housing Administration Single Family Housing Policy Handbook will now come into effect on Sept. 14, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Friday.

WASHINGTON — Federal banking regulators are putting pressure on a dozen or more states to begin regulating appraisal management companies within their borders.

The SAFE Transitional License Act would allow registered lending officers to work at independent mortgage banks for 120 days while they complete state testing and licensing requirements.

The American Institute of CPAs has issued a set of questions and answers on the services a practitioner can provide in connection with the American Land Title Association's Best Practices Framework for real estate settlement.

Millennials' expectations indicate a major shift in values that lenders can see as an opportunity from both marketing and business strategy perspectives.

Cornerstone Home Lending surrendered its state mortgage license in Georgia and will pay $33,500 under the terms of a consent order reached with state banking regulators.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending April 24.

Demographic, cultural and technological changes will reshape customer service in the mortgage business over the next 30 years, a Wells Fargo executive said.

Regulators recently penalized a mortgage firm for keeping a file of licensing-test questions to prep exam takers, the first public challenge to what is believed to be a hushed, but longtime, industry practice.

The big picture is more important than the small details.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending April 17.

Originators are saying they are too busy to concentrate on marketing, but if they don't, the early success in 2015 could turn around.