Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced last week a cybersecurity violation by title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. It derives nearly 92% of its revenue from its title insurance segment, according to the SEC. segment pretax margin of title insurance and services. The company reported $7.1

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Lorber has served as Douglas Elliman board chairman since 2003. Liebowitz previously founded and led businesses in the insurance and finance sectors. Long-time Douglas Elliman chairman and CEO Howard Lorber is retiring. The New York-based brokerage announced Lorber’s retirement on Tuesday. based producer of printing ink.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

Big Four title insurer Old Republic is on the lookout for a new CEO after Mark Bilbrey announced on Thursday that he would be retiring at the end of January. Just seven years later, Bilbrey and other investors purchased the firm, which was eventually sold to First American in 2003. Bilbrey has served as the firm’s CEO since 2019.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

The budget also requests $400 billion in loan guarantee commitment limitation for the Mutual Mortgage Insurance (MMI) Fund through September 2026, which is “sufficient authority for insurance of all single family forward mortgages and HECMs,” the document reads. HUD is requesting $2.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

The fourth largest title insurance underwriter by market share announced its acquisition of Nashville-based Homeland Title on Thursday. Homeland Title has served homebuyers and sellers in middle Tennessee since 2003. Stewart Title appears to be starting 2022 exactly where it left off in 2021. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A voucher location report published in 2003 said that white recipients of HCVs were “more likely to live outside of central cities than Black or Hispanic voucher recipients, indicating that the race and ethnicity of program participants may be determining factors for where they live.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

Mortgage Insurers — sent a letter on Monday to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to express concerns about the FHFA’s intent to publish the VantageScore 4.0 historical dataset. FHFA’s current lack of a plan to include “through the cycle” data increases the importance of the data itself, the letter explained.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage Insurers points out that Hispanics are the youngest of any ethnic or racial demographic in the United States to purchase a home. CrossCountry, founded in 2003 by Ronald Leonhardt, has more than 8,000 employees with nearly 600 branches across 50 states. billion in loans.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 3, 2024

Through the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, passed in 2003, Congress placed restrictions on lenders’ access to and use of medical information, including debt-related information. “Medical bills on credit reports too often are inaccurate and have little to no predictive value when it comes to repaying other loans.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2022

In return, the Samson agent is asked – not told, asked – to refer clients to Cardinal Title Group , a title insurer wholly owned by Samson. “I Donny Samson was the company’s 25 th agent when he joined the family business in 2003, he said. But the brokerage can say nice things about those who use the title insurer. “At

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 18, 2022

Assuming a $250,000 loan was committed on December 31, 2021, your monthly payment was approximately $1,007 exclusive of escrow for real estate taxes and insurance. It consistently climbed to 3.76% as of March 3, 2022, and as of the date I’m writing this, it is 5.81%.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

With 2003 being the only year previously to come close to that level. With the Fed’s extraordinary round of intervention, called Quantitative Easing (QE), the market volume doubled. 2020 and 2021 were back to back the two largest mortgage origination years in U.S. A zero sum game.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 30, 2024

in 2003—a software company that gained 60% market share of the REO asset management component of the financial services industry by 2008. Department of Labor’s Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report (Thursday) The post The Week Ahead: Advancing the Future of Mortgage Servicing first appeared on The MortgagePoint.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 10, 2024

VA’s Tidewater Initiative written in 2021 by McKissock (Similar idea as current ROV changes), effective in 2003. My comments: I find this post’s appraiser comments most interesting, especially those from VA appraisers who have been required to use the VA’s Tidewater Initiative, which started in 2003.

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AUGUST 2, 2024

And when FNMA won’t buy (or VA and FHA insure) a loan from a lender it results in fewer lenders offering loans, higher interest rates and possibly larger down payments. Also, business is slow, so now is an excellent time to review your insurance needs. FHLMC), the VA and FHA. These entities will not buy loans with two or more ADUs.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 29, 2023

This example excludes closing costs, taxes and insurance, which can total about 3% of the sales price, or another $28,800 on a $960,000 home, for a total of $62,400 with the down payment. The share of first-time buyers who sold stocks or bonds for their down payment has doubled since 2003 from 6% to 12%. All figures are approximations.)

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

Built in 2003, the Mediterranean style primary residence totals 4, 050 sq. 2023 E&O Insurance Brokers Risks of Expert Work by Claudia Gaglione, Esq A long article from Claudia with 4 very good case studies. It comes with a three-bedroom, Mediterranean-style mansion with 4,050 square feet of luxury living space.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

In 2003, he owned and operated BCF Technology Resources Inc. Department of Labor’s Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report (Thursday) The post The Week Ahead: Exploring Cost Savings Through Outsourcing first appeared on The MortgagePoint.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2021

Secretary Carson and I posted a waiver and other documents to the HUD website that makes clear DACA status recipients are now eligible to apply for mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration,” former HUD Deputy Secretary Brian Montgomery said. are not eligible for FHA-insured mortgages.” .”

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On Q Financial

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In 2003, the FHA Housing Handbook stated, “non-U.S. are not eligible for FHA-insured mortgages.” Among other protections, DACA allows recipients to legally work in the U.S. and prevents involuntary removal from the country for a renewable two-year term. citizens without lawful residency in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

KW: NAMB has been actively advocating for mortgage brokers since 2003. We’re also working on finding solutions for the qualified mortgage and on issues surrounding flood insurance. HW: It’s an election year and I know NAMB has been very active in advocacy. What are some of the issues you’ve been working on in D.C.?

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 24, 2025

In 2003, Bode sold Mid America to Aegis Mortgage and focused on developing Mortgage Machine, a proprietary loan origination system (LOS) and creating a tax lien business.

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