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CFPB warns consumers about home equity contracts, comparing their features to reverse mortgages

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) this month published an issue spotlight that takes a closer look at home equity contracts, or what the industry refers to as home equity investments (HEIs) that offer a lump sum payment to clients in exchange for a stake in their home equity.

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Rising insurance costs, ample inventory create a unique market in Southwest Florida

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Local real estate professionals attribute the slower market to a variety of factors including higher home prices, which have remained steady despite the slowdown, higher interest rates , and rising costs for homeowners and flood insurance. homeowners insurance policy was roughly $1,700 in 2023. In comparison, the average U.S.

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Opinion: GSE policy changes are positive for small lenders

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CHLA is calling on FHFA to take the additional step of barring volume discounts for large lenders in mortgage insurance (MI) coverage of high-LTV GSE loans. The current black box allows stealth contractions in their credit boxes, as we believe took place earlier this year.

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Opinion: Two legal issues relevant to FHFA’s review of FHLB system

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savings and loan associations, savings banks, and cooperative banks) and insurance companies. It was not until 1989 that Congress expanded membership to all federally insured depository institutions. Thus, if there is a conflict between the super lien and state insurance law, it is unclear which statutory system would prevail.

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Mortgage refis are dead. Can Blend weather the storm?

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In 2008, as the financial crisis was unfolding, he landed a job at secretive big data startup Palantir , where he learned that the $10 trillion mortgage industry was still in the Stone Age technologically. Nima Ghamsari, CEO and founder of mortgage fintech Blend Labs. Blend Labs CEO Nima Ghamsari is a betting man. He was right. Right again.

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Mortgage rates continue to climb beyond 7%

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At today’s rate, the monthly cost to purchase a home totals about $2,400, not including property taxes and insurance, a 17% increase from a year ago. Higher mortgage rates probably signal “a further contraction in home sales activity,” she added. “We

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Mortgage lenders, borrowers react to banks closures 

Housing Wire

” The MBA survey shows that the average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($726,200 or less) was 6.71% last week, down from the previous week’s 6.79%. It was the biggest bank failure since Washington Mutual collapsed in 2008.

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