On this episode of DS5: Inside the Industry, Marcia Davies, COO of the Mortgage Bankers Association. Davies discusses how COVID-19 has put a strain on workers’ personal lives, as well as what businesses are doing to cope with this new normal.
Read More »The GSE Capital Rule Proposal’s Effect on Conservatorship
How will Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's proposal for a new rulemaking impact the companies' path to privatization?
Read More »Pondering Property Preservation
Scott Arnold of Wells Fargo Home Lending spoke to DS News about some of the recent trends and challenges facing the industry, as well as the role technology plays in it.
Read More »DS5: How Investors are Adapting to Market Shifts
On this episode of DS5: Inside the Industry Jeffrey Tesch, CEO of RCN Capital discusses how the single-family rental market has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read More »Coronavirus Changes Disaster Response
Here's how Florida is adapting its severe storm response, and how servicers can prepare themselves.
Read More »CFPB Assisting Loss-Mitigation Efforts
Mortgage servicers seeking to assist struggling borrowers to avoid foreclosure and engage in loss mitigation efforts would be able to apply for their own No-Action Letter.
Read More »Comptroller Joseph Otting to Step Down
One of Otting's final moves as Comptroller was to release a final rule under the Community Reinvestment Act.
Read More »Single-Family Rental Market Defies Market Conditions
Investors are seeing that the single-family built-for-rent market has received attention as a means to add single-family inventory amid concerns over housing affordability and downpayment requirements in the for-sale market.
Read More »Measuring Mortgage Hardships and Delinquencies
According to a new study, the percentage of accounts in a hardship status has increased significantly across all loan categories and risk tiers, including mortgages.
Read More »Over 2.4 Million More Unemployment Claims in the Past Week
Claims experienced a slight decline from the previous week, but here's why unemployment insurance data remains "difficult to interpret" amid rising delinquency numbers.
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