-
Emerging Trends in Commercial Lending: A New Era of Opportunities Explore the latest trends in commercial lending, focusing on technology-driven solutions and the rise of sustainable finance. Learn about new opportunities for businesses and lenders.
Lending (1572)
Mountainview Financial Solutions and Compass Analytics Partner To Offer Clarity Into MSR Valuations
MountainView Financial Solutions and Compass Analytics announced today the industry's first integration of third-party MSR marks and pipeline hedge analytics. Through this integration, mutual MountainView and Compass clients will be able to access loan-level MSR prices and durations generated by MountainView MSR models within their Compass pipeline hedge analytics and reporting. This services integration signals… Read more...
Open Mortgage Acquires Premier Home Mortgage
Open Mortgage, a multi-channel mortgage lender dedicated to empowering the dream of home ownership, has acquired Premier Home Mortgage, a lender that specializes in financing homes in rural and small-town America, in a deal that's expected to add $300 million in loan value to the company. The acquisition also adds offices in Iowa, Montana, South… Read more...
Calabria Looking to Level the Playing Field for Large Financial Institutions
Last week, at the National Association of Realtors®' Regulatory Issues Forum, newly-appointed Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mark Calabria spoke to hundreds of Realtors® and industry leaders regarding his vision for the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Tuesday's forum also presented an opportunity for NAR to highlight its housing finance reform plan, which… Read more...
When the Economy Turns Down, Will Your Company Be Ready? A 10-Step Practical Guide to Preparing Your Go-to-Market Program
By Mark Coronna, Area Managing Partner and CMO of Chief Outsiders John C. Maxwell, the American author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books on leadership has a wonderful quote about growth that says: “Change is inevitable, growth is optional.” There may be another version of this we should be paying attention to, and… Read more...
CoreLogic Reports U.S. Overall Delinquency Rate Lowest for a February in Nearly Two Decades
CoreLogic, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released its monthly Loan Performance Insights Report. The report shows, nationally, 4% of mortgages were in some stage of delinquency (30 days or more past due, including those in foreclosure) in February 2019, representing a 0.8 percentage point decline in the overall delinquency rate… Read more...
From Around the Industry
Why Support Someone Who Is Trying to Put You Out of Business? This came in from Remax today: RE/MAX strongly believes the role of a real estate agent in the homebuying and selling process is more important than ever. Consumers faced with the largest, most complex financial transaction of their lives should have a knowledgeable… Read more...
Seriously Underwater U.S. Properties Increase From A Year Ago
ATTOM Data Solutions today released its Q1 2019 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report, which shows that at the end of the first quarter of 2019, more than 5.2 million (5,223,524) U.S. properties were seriously underwater (where the combined balance of loans secured by the property was at least 25 percent higher than the property’s… Read more...
Better.com Expands Lending Into Five News States
Better.com, a company that leverages machine learning and AI to digitize and automate every step of the home financing process to make homeownership more affordable and accessible, today announced it has expanded into several new markets, including Montana, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Nebraska and Wyoming. The expansion follows a $85M Series C capital raise and… Read more...
AEI: New Construction Starts Is Key To Affordable Housing
According to new data presented by American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the quest for affordable housing still has a way to go. For one, the standards of accommodation and equipment are above what lower income groups are accustomed to and are also above the means of these groups. Secondly, the idea of achieving meaningful cost reduction… Read more...
Freddie Macs New Security Provides Liquidity To Small Lenders
Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) announced a new effort to help financial institutions with less than $10 billion in assets access additional liquidity for the financing of affordable housing. The newly created Private Placement PC Swap execution (PPP) enables a lender to swap a pool of loans backed by affordable properties for Freddie Mac Multifamily PCs… Read more...More...
MOST READ STORIES
Fast,Easy & Free
