First American Mortgage Solutions, LLC, recently announced it is one of a few vendors able to offer data verification for all three components of Fannie Mae’s Desktop Underwriter (DU) validation service and Day 1 Certainty through FirstAmerican FraudGuard. Now that ...

Chronos Solutions, a Coppell, Texas-based national real estate financial services provider, announced that it is now providing reporting services through Fannie Mae's Day 1 Certainty program. Among the services are the newly approved Taxdoor platform, Chronos Solutions' proprietary automated tax ...

HLP, a collaborative created in 2009 that engages the key stakeholders who work with families on homeownership—nonprofit counselors, advocates, mortgage lenders, servicers and investors, attorneys and government agencies, recently announced former HLP CEO and Founder Larry Gilmore, has been elected ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced an agreement to resolve a discrimination complaint against the fairness of the Maryland's Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. The agreement is a result of a complaint filed with ...

CoreLogic Senior Director of Fraud Solutions Strategy Bridget Berg recently took a look at the overall fraud risk outlook for 2017. Based on CoreLogic’s information, fraud risk increased by about 17 percent year-over-year and is now at its highest level ...

Inclusionary housing programs refer to any programs or policies that require the creation of affordable housing when new development occurs, including impact or linkage fees that generate revenue for affordable housing. As inclusionary housing is gaining attention as a way ...

Which companies are merging, and what professionals are moving? See some highlights in this update of the housing and mortgage industries.   First American Mortgage Solutions announced on Tuesday that it is one of only a few vendors that are approved ...

On Wednesday, Freddie Mac sold $817 million worth of seasoned loans, which completed its third Seasoned Loan Structured Transaction (SLST) of seasoned re-performing loans (RPL) and moderately delinquent loans serviced by Mr. Cooper. According to a recent report by Freddie Mac, ...

On Wednesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an interim final rule and a proposed rule in an effort to amending mortgage-servicing communication policies issued in 2016. The interim final rule gives servicers a longer, 10-day window to provide ...

In a recent report by Freddie Mac, the relative influence of regulatory and geographic constraints on housing affordability was examined, discovering that the restrictive land use of cities and metropolitan areas have reduced affordability. According to the GSE's September Insights ...