Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2022

Until recently … the appraisal industry seems to have escaped the type of regulation and scrutiny faced by other participants in the mortgage market,” the authors wrote. Apart from questions of governance, the report found significant gaps in the Appraisal Foundation’s fair housing requirements and training.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Just before its stock debuted at a disappointing $15 a share, Guild Mortgage settled a federal lawsuit that claimed the lender knowingly breached legal requirements when it originated and underwrote FHA loans. Those loans, originated between 2007 and 2011, defaulted and led to claims to the FHA for mortgage insurance.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are aiming to remind homeowners and renters impacted by the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles of various relief options. Once out of harms way, we encourage homeowners in these affected areas to contact their mortgage servicer to learn about relief options.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2024

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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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

For the system to work, mortgage-backed security investors need an efficient and verifiable means to know that all loans in their securities comply with this law, and originators and issuers want certainty that they are not running afoul of the Bureau. This approach has advantages: it’s simple, observable and verifiable.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In prior conversations with HousingWire ’s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD), leaders of equity sharing companies contend that their products are different from reverse mortgages largely because they are not debt-based instruments. Legal details The case, originally brought in Washington state court, is now playing out in federal court.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Ron Chillemi has joined non-bank HELOC provider Figure Technology Solutions as its first chief legal officer and corporate secretary, where he will oversee the company’s legal and compliance functions. Earlier in his career, Ron spent seventeen years as a prosecutor at three different levels of government.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

In these contracts – also known as “land contracts” or “bond for deed” –the seller retains the legal title to a home until the borrower completes all the payments, leading to some “traps,” according to the CFPB. The government is taking action to ensure that these products do not turn the dream of homeownership into a nightmare.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Tuesday announced a final rule governing the Property Assessed Clean Energy ( PACE ) loan program. The rule applies existing protections for residential mortgages to borrowers who seek PACE loans to upgrade or renovate their homes through clean energy technology.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This article addresses two legal issues relevant to the review: FHFA’s statutory authority to reduce the number of Federal Home Loan Banks, and The application of the FHLBank statutory “super lien”. This provision may be challenged by the affected FHLBank under legal process.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Ronald Chillemi has been appointed Chief Legal Officer (CLO) and Corporate Secretary of Figure Technology Solutions, Inc. He will oversee the legal and compliance departments of the business in this capacity. Chillemi was Deputy General Counsel at Better, a mortgage lender, and General Counsel at Aven before coming to Figure.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

District Court for the Northern District of Texas , Ginnie Mae has filed its response to a lawsuit brought against it by Texas Capital Bank (TCB) saying the warehouse lender lacks standing and discounts the authority the government has to extinguish a lender from its reverse mortgage-backed securities program.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

RMK Financial Corporation , which does business as Majestic Home Loans , has been permanently banned by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from the mortgage lending industry following a series of repeat offenses — which occurred despite the CFPB’s law enforcement order issued in 2015. government. government.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2024

This is according to court filings reviewed by HousingWire ’s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD). The government contends that by filing the case in Amarillo instead of Dallas, TCB has violated a “forum selection clause” in its tail agreement with Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF), the agreement at the center of the dispute.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2024

Government attorneys deny that TCB “is entitled to any of the relief sought in the complaint,” adding that they deny “[e]ach and every allegation, as well as all inferences, arguments, and legal conclusions based on them.” Attorneys for the U.S. This is according to court documents reviewed by RMD. The judge largely disagreed.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2022

The requirement also applies to mortgage lenders, legal experts say. The CFPB, a government watchdog agency, said lenders aren’t absolved from adverse action notice requirements under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act if they use complex algorithms, which Rohit Chopra, the director of the CFPB, has dubbed “black-box models.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

The federal judge overseeing a case brought by Texas Capital Bank (TCB) against Ginnie Mae has dismissed a portion of the bank’s complaint against the government-owned company but will allow the majority of the case to progress, according to court filings reviewed by RMD. Presiding Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

A Department of Veterans Affairs lending program for Native American veterans has been severely underutilized, a government watchdog found. According to a report the Government Accountability Office published this week, the VA’s Native American Direct Loan program only resulted in 89 loans originated in the continental U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

The court will decide whether or not national banks will be required to follow state-level laws governing escrow accounts’ accumulation of interest. New York’s state law, they say “doesn’t prevent national banks from making real-estate loans or providing mortgage-escrow services.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

loanDepot continues to make changes to its top management as it navigates a sharp workforce reduction in a shrinking mortgage market. He will oversee all aspects of loanDepot’s legal strategy and operations, including enterprise, shareholder and corporate governance matters.

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2021

As reverse mortgage loan officers aim to expand their repertoire of advertising methodologies, the use of an advertorial can be powerful but also comes with some caveats that any reverse mortgage loan officer should keep in mind prior to engaging in such advertising campaigns. Now, that simply isn’t the case, Giordano says.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week published a report assessing the performance of government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in reaching their single-family housing goals. The GSEs meet these goals by shifting “their purchases toward mortgages that meet the goals’ requirements,” according to the CBO.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

For a home valued at $250,000, the cost of an owner’s title insurance policy would be just 11 cents a day on a 30-year mortgage. Much of the expense is invested in the efforts of land title professionals to review the title and purchase title data from local governments. Consumers can shop around and should compare policies.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Amid the expectation of a wave of mergers and acquisitions in 2023, nonbank mortgage lenders American Portfolio Mortgage Corporation and Town Square Mortgage announced on Wednesday that the companies are merging their operations. This week, Guild announced it has acquired Legacy Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Equifax ‘s new product integration with the United Kingdom’s IRIS Software Group aims to cut down underwriting time for mortgage borrowers at small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). When a consumer applies for a home mortgage , auto loan or social service benefits, their employer is required to provide employment and income history.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week released a new order amending its “express consent” rules for the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which closes the “lead generator loophole” used by mortgage professionals to connect with potential business leads. We now have a time clock of about six months.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 16, 2024

Kahane & Associates PA is a full-service law firm based in Sunrise, Florida, that represents secured and unsecured creditors and provides a full range of legal industry, from foreclosure and bankruptcy representation to litigation, evictions, collections, loss mitigation, and REO closings. Kahane Esq. ,

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2021

Fannie Mae has given mortgage servicers the green light to use third-party digital vendors to verify income and asset information. Unsurprisingly, mortgage tech firms are thrilled. In a June 9 note , the government-sponsored entity told mortgage servicers they could implement the changes immediately.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) said the Housing Choice Voucher program, which launched in 2022, assists very low-income families, seniors and people with disabilities in being able to afford stable and quality housing in the private market. The program was previously limited only to eligible properties in North Carolina and Texas.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2021

The founder of Oklahoma City-based lender and servicer First Mortgage Company , who was also the president of the Mortgage Bankers Association in the late 1990s, pleaded guilty to five counts of bank fraud, money laundering and false statements to a financial institution. billion for the government-sponsored entity.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Michael Hild, who served as CEO of now-defunct reverse mortgage lender Live Well Financial , is seeking a one-year delay of a deadline to file a motion for a new trial based on what his attorney describes as “new evidence.” Hild’s attorney conferred with the government on the matter and says it “objects to this request.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The proposed rule addressed capital, liquidity, governance, policy related to entity survivorship, and more. There are a few lessons to remember here: Nonbanks did not create the unsustainable mortgage market. The nonbank servicing model grew at the behest of the federal government and the GSEs and more.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In preparing this article, we asked mortgage, real estate and title professionals to share the experiences and challenges they face in dealing with compliance issues during this pandemic. All would appreciate guidance on how to comply with the surge of legal and regulatory changes. Their answers were no surprise.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

The suit, filed in October over loans TCB made to now-bankrupt lender Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF), recently saw the presiding magistrate judge impose deadlines on all pretrial processes that extend into 2025, a point when it’s possible that new leaders — and, potentially, new priorities — will be steering the government-owned Ginnie Mae.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tech-focused real estate brokerage Radius , flush with $14 million in venture capital raised this past April, has launched a mortgage lending arm in California that it plans to roll out to additional markets sometime next year. Is now a good time to invest in real estate automation technologies?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has tremendous potential to cut costs and improve customer experience, but regulation has not caught up to develop a governance program, industry pros said of AI’s implementation in mortgage lending. The panel noted the findings of the latest Fannie Mae mortgage lender sentiment survey.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One area in the mortgage and real estate industry that has been evolving for nearly two decades is digital closings. E-mortgage volume spikes. During the first six months of 2020, the Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that the volume of e-mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spiked significantly.

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