Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

The portfolio of loans examined included residential, commercial investor and business purpose loans. However, CPL Validations issues, including agent good standing, issuance limits or title file order registered in title insurer systems, recorded the largest increase, jumping 29.32%. up 60% compared to non-attorney only states.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 31, 2024

a360inc , a technology solutions provider to law firms, title agencies, mortgage lenders and investors, has acquired ProVest , a market-leading service of process and litigation information services provider to the creditors’ rights legal industry. The post a360inc’s Investor Group Acquires ProVest appeared first on MortgageOrb.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

For more than two years, a storm has been brewing in the title insurance industry. The four firms in question all had joint ventures (JVs) or affiliated business arrangements (ABAs) in which real estate agents, who were also business referral sources, were investors. or divest real estate agents from their ownership interests.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 3, 2025

Servicers tend not to take responsibility for what CFPB calls their shoddy customer service, laying the blame on investor requirements, processing volumes, or systems issues. VA has published guidance to remind holders and servicers of assumption guidelinesand weve outlined how VA will address any failure to comply with these requirements.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The fees paid to the mortgage-backed security (MBS) investor and lender are next with the accumulated cost of the annual interest payments made to the investor(s) that purchased the MBS bond containing the mortgage, and the lender’s net origination charges at closing plus the accumulated value of the excess interest the lender charges for profit.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

The time-tested resiliency of home values highlights home equity’s importance to American households and its significance for residential real estate investors alike. The convergence of homeowner requirements and investor incentives has resulted in a genuine inflection moment for home equity investments (HEIs).

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2020

million in a seed round from private investors. Investors in the latest series included BetterLife Group , Saturn Five , and Techstars – an entrepreneurial program that promises startups resources, legal support, mentorships and connections. “First-time home buyers are an important and overlooked segment of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

Four title insurance firms have agreed to pay nearly $3.3 As investors, the real estate agents then received profit payments distributed based on their ownership interest. He also noted that many of the investor agents referred less than half of their customers to their affiliated title business. However, due to D.C.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Consider the residential client disappointed at the lack of inventory , or the commercial investor with many vacancies in a once-thriving property. Legal disputes. Address other important items, including relevant contact information for support professionals, such as legal counsel, insurance providers and emergency services.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

Before that Yankowski was president and CEO of Executive Title Insurance Services. With over 15 years of experience in the mortgage industry, Feliciano previously served as chief legal officer for DocMagic , where she also served as assistant general counsel.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Debenture interest refers to the percentage of a return that an investor would receive for lending money through a debenture. The ML goes into effect on Sept. The updated rule builds upon several changes that FHA made to the HECM program on Jan. 19, 2017, which went into effect later that year. 19, 2017,” FHA said in its announcement.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

There were no severance packages, and even health insurance was canceled retroactive to May 2022, leaving some on the hook for huge medical bills. The Smart Rate website mentions that the mortgage lender offers purchase and refinancings, jumbo, FHA, adjustable, bank statement and investors loans. It’s truly unbelievable and nauseating.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2024

For reasons both practical and legal, buyer-agent commissions are not today explicitly financeable with a mortgage. Likewise, for FHA loans, you’d need to pass an Act of Congress, while Veterans would need to convince the Secretary of Veterans Affairs that a change is in the best interest of veterans, taxpayers, and investors.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

It is counter to a popular and politically potent narrative grounded in the aftermath of the Great Recession, when large institutional investors scooped up thousands of properties at foreclosure auction. It turns out local investors are also more efficient than banks and government agencies at renovating and reselling homes.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2022

The requirement also applies to mortgage lenders, legal experts say. In his own statement Thursday, Chopra said companies have “legal responsibilities when they let a black-box model make lending decisions.”. The post CFPB wants lenders to disclose reason for denial of credit appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2021

Other investors included Greycroft, Pillar VC, 2LVC, and Gaingels. Knox automates and oversees a property’s finances and taxes, insurance, leasing and legal, tenant and property care, banking, and bill pay. That’s $14.7 million of total funding to-date for Knox.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 11, 2024

By streamlining field operations and actively collaborating with investors and insurers to refine completion timelines and inspection requirements, Safeguard continues to drive operational efficiency while aligning closely with stakeholder expectations. This helps us avoid delays, expedite bids, and reduce liability.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Authorization : A digital loan file of record accessed by a broad range of trusted identities from lenders to guarantors to investors requires a permission structure. Investors require assurance that a file, note or instrument reflects the verifiable intentions of the committed parties.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, payments, insurance and proptech. insurance companies, including home and auto providers. Register for the FinLedger Daily Newsletter.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2020

They need to not only help borrowers enter forbearance but are also required to reach out before the end of each forbearance period to determine the appropriate post-forbearance relief option based on investor/insurer waterfalls.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

Typically, the company does not hold such loans for more than two weeks, instead selling them to a group of investors – including Sprout Mortgage. Former employees accuse the company of retroactively cutting off their health insurance on May 1, 2022 without prior communication.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

The brilliant sunshine outside the Miami Beach Convention Center was matched by summit attendees who effused that crypto assets and blockchain technology will enter into residential real estate and benefit agents, investors, and tech wheelers-and-dealers alike. We’re giving power to the people,” said Natalia Karayaneva, CEO of Propy. (The

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

The lawsuit cites potential securities fraud when investors are induced to purchase the lender’s loans in the secondary market based on the false representations on the borrowers’ profiles. The lender claims that since becoming a CDFI in 2018, it has funded over $25 billion in loans to more than 75,000 families.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Former employees accused Strauss of not paying salaries and suspending their health insurance coverage retroactively despite collecting contributions from paychecks. The SEC said the executive caused losses to investors after engaging in a pattern of false and misleading claims at American Home Mortgage Investment Corp.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

All facets of real estate transactions, from appraisals and advice to financing and insuring, are highly regulated. Trying to innovate using an end-around will likely not only fail in the long run, but it may also land you in legal hot water. But are you doing it within the rules? Because like it or not, there are a lot of them.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

Although investors have poured an increasing amount of money into fintechs — $1.7 Agencies with existing fintech offices include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But that scenario is a long way off. billion in 2021, up from $0.4

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The practice of redlining , initiated in the 1930s, where banks and insurers refused services to entire neighborhoods based on racial composition, further entrenched these disparities. Despite these legal advancements, Black Americans still face challenges in achieving homeownership at rates comparable to other demographics.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

I do want to clarify because I think there’s often some misperceptions out there, and to say, the PSPA are lines of credit, Fannie and Freddie cannot legally knowingly take risk against PSPAs. That would be like if Wells [Fargo] said, ‘Well, we’ve got deposit insurance so who cares.’”. billion.”.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2024

Adding the fiscal policy to that, Duncan said there’s more price sensitivity among investors in the U.S. In addition, I was reading a newsletter, and the analyst was looking at who are the investors in Treasury. Foreign investors were around 30% of Treasury holdings total. But to me, it’s an excess of information.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

Worse, in the case of a single family rental investor seeking to purchase a home to rent to others but failing to realize strict leasing prohibitions imposed by an HOA, it can lead to minor disasters. Despite of that rapid growth, we still see way too much key mashing, stare-and-compare and voice mail tag.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2024

The other thing we are looking at is that the people who would really benefit from lower transaction costs are those who buy and sell homes at scale, which are the big investors. So, an unintended consequence of this is that the people who benefit are the big players and not people like first-time homebuyers.”

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Padove Appraisal Service

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Legal proceedings: An appraisal can be useful in legal proceedings, such as divorce settlements, where the value of a property needs to be determined. Investment analysis: Real estate investors may use appraisals to evaluate the potential return on investment for a property.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

Defunct Long Island-based Sprout, led by industry veteran Strauss, informed hundreds of workers it was closing its doors on July 6 after a sharp rise in mortgage rates saddled the company with loans it was unable to sell to investors in the secondary market at par.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

Today, Cleveland Appraisal Blog shares a few tips for first-time investors. When you run a business, and owning rental property is a business , you’re almost always better off forming a legal business structure. It starts with managing your budget but also includes understanding which upgrades make a space more desirable. Questions?

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

Long Island-based Sprout informed hundreds of workers and business partners it was closing its doors on July 6, 2022, when a sharp rise in rates saddled the company with loans it could not sell to investors in the secondary market at par. Ex-employees alleged the company did not pay their last paychecks and severance package.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 19, 2024

Bymel, a real estate investor and broker for more than 20 years, who serves as CEO of First Lien Capital LP, a privately owned distressed mortgage investment platform he founded in 2021 which owns over 700 residential mortgages and REOs in more than 30 states valued at greater than $100 million.

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