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Government requests more time in Ginnie Mae/TCB lawsuit

Housing Wire

government have requested an extension of deadlines related to discovery in the case brought by Texas Capital Bank (TCB) against Ginnie Mae over the extinguishment of a priority lien tied to the loan portfolio collateral of Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF), according to court documents reviewed by HousingWire ’s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD).

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Purchase applications continue growth streak this spring

Housing Wire

Last weeks level of purchase applications was its highest since the end of January, driven by a 3% increase in conventional purchases, while government purchase applications were down 2%, said Joel Kan , MBAs vice president and deputy chief economist. The average contract interest rate for 5/1 ARMs increased to 6.04% from 5.89%.

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Could American reverse mortgage companies someday partner with one from Australia?

Housing Wire

They discovered a high level of government involvement and a host of industry participants eager to chat with their professional counterparts from thousands of miles away. government involvement The NRMLA Annual Meeting in September 2024 featured several guests from the federal governments housing arm, the U.S.

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Oregon reverse mortgage bill that could halt proprietary business may be amended

Housing Wire

The Oregon state senates Committee on Housing Development held a hearing last week on a piece of proposed legislation that seeks to limit the amount of equity a reverse mortgage lender can receive after the sale or transfer of a property. Senate Bill (SB) 534 is positioned primarily as a consumer protection measure.

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CHLA: Here’s how to modernize ‘short-changed’ Ginnie Mae

Housing Wire

The Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA) on Wednesday released a plan that it says would “modernize” Ginnie Mae , the government-owned company that manages the securitization of government-sponsored loans. This undermines Ginnie Mae’s ability to run a market-driven program.” This recommendation is based on two other ideas.

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Ginnie Mae fires back at TCB over venue claims in reverse mortgage case

Housing Wire

Attorneys for Ginnie Mae have responded to Texas Capital Bank (TBC) over the government’s motion to move the case to a different venue. They say that the bank’s own filing on the matter avoids the key issues that the government sought to raise regarding the original clause that specifies where any related legal actions should take place.

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Former HUD official convicted of falsifying records

Housing Wire

A former assistant inspector general for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been convicted by a federal jury of concealing efforts to direct tens of millions of dollars in government business to a friend and government contractor to whom he owed money.