The serious delinquency rate on Freddie Mac-backed loans is now seven basis points lower than it was in November 2008 at the start of the financial crisis (1.52 percent) and nearly 2 percentage points lower than the national serious delinquency rate reported by CoreLogic for July 2015 (3.4 percent).
Read More »Delinquency Rate Experiences Largest Year-Over-Year Decline in Four Years
The delinquency rate, which includes residential homes that are 30 days or more overdue on mortgage payments but not in foreclosure, tumbled by 18 percent year-over-year in August down to 4.83 percent, the largest over-the-year decline since May 2011, according to Black Knight.
Read More »WALZ Compliance Solutions to Host Webinar on Wednesday, September 30
On Wednesday, September 30, from 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern, WALZ Compliance Solutions will host a webinar titled "Preventing Risk When Notifying Borrowers: Pennsylvania Act 6 and Act 91 Notices."
Read More »Housing Counselors Report Substantially Improved Communications with Servicers
The challenge most reported by counselors in NFMC's report was efficient and timely communication with servicers (38 percent), which is down slightly from 40 percent in the NFMC's report from October 2013.
Read More »Fannie Mae Completes Risk Sharing Transaction for $7 Billion Worth of Loans
This transaction is the fourth in Fannie Mae's Credit Insurance Risk Transfer (CIRT) series, and third since the start of 2015. In the CIRT series, credit risk for a pool of loans is transferred to a panel of reinsurers.
Read More »Fannie Mae Utilizes Technology to Achieve Housing Goals
Fannie Mae has built a strong and flexible technology organization in order to help the Enterprise more efficiently achieve its goals, which are to help provide people with access to affordable mortgage credit and to reduce risk to the taxpayer, according to a commentary from Bruce Lee, SVP and Chief Information Officer at Fannie Mae.
Read More »San Francisco Fed President Says Rate Hike Later in 2015 Would Be ‘Appropriate’
An influential monetary policymaker said this week that it would be appropriate for the Federal Reserve to raise the federal funds target rate later this year despite declining to do so in the September meeting of the Federal Open Market ...
Read More »Lenders Offering More Second Chances With Increased Number of Subprime Loans
"Despite the continuing rise in overall subprime originations, banks are still greatly limiting their high-risk exposure," Cutts said. "The credit score of the borrower at the 10th percentile of newly originated first mortgages today is 650. For HELOCs, it's 700."
Read More »Court Dismisses BNY Mellon’s $600 Million RMBS Suit Against JPMorgan Chase
BNY Mellon contended that the clock for the six-year statute of limitations began ticking when it made the repurchase demand. JPMorgan countered that the statute of limitations began running on the date the transaction closed, which was June 28, 2006—more than seven years before BNY Mellon filed the lawsuit.
Read More »City of Oakland Lawsuit Accuses Wells Fargo of Reverse Redlining
The lawsuit alleges that Wells Fargo refused to refinance these high-cost loans to minorities on the same terms for which they refinanced loans to white borrowers, which resulted in a disproportionate number of foreclosures that subsequently led to abandoned properties and neighborhood blight
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