MortgagePoint speaks with mortgage servicing execs from BOK Financial, Carrington, the NMSA, PHH Mortgage Corporation, and Servbank about the unusual times and unusual opportunities the industry faces midway through 2023.
Read More »The Impact of AI on the Real Estate Market
No one can say how long it will take AI to move into the underwriter’s office, but we know that’s not where it will start. New research from STRATMOR argues that the AI ripples have already begun to spread.
Read More »Illinois Senate Amends Procedural Rules Impacting Foreclosures
Attorney Robert Deisinger takes a look at a new measure in Illinois to seal foreclosure records that were initiated during the COVID pandemic foreclosure moratoria.
Read More »Metros Struck by Hurricane Ian Showing Home Sales Resiliency
Redfin reports that home listings and home sales have bounced back in Florida towns hit by Hurricane Ian last fall, a storm that caused between $41 billion and $70 billion in damage to the area.
Read More »HAF Assistance Protects 300,000-Plus Homeowners From Foreclosure
At the close of Q1 2023, Homeowner Assistance Fund programs made roughly $3.7 billion in payments to more than 318,000 homeowners at risk of foreclosure–a 50% increase over Q4 2022.
Read More »Podcast Spotlight: Unpacking the State of the Servicing Space
In a recent episode of SitusAMC's On the Hill podcast, host Tim Rood sat down with Five Star Institute Lifetime Achievement Award Wes Iseley of Carrington Holding Company to discuss his 40-year career, his role with Carrington, and his outlook for the housing industry.
Read More »Investors Measure the Toll of Climate Change on Miami Property Values
New research from CoreLogic indicates that both large and small real estate investors are aware of risks of natural disasters in the red-hot Miami region, where annual storm surges continue to threaten human safety and properties.
Read More »Using Mortgage Reserves to Help Narrow the Black-White Homeownership Gap
New research from FHLBank San Francisco and the Urban Institute investigates ways to reduce mortgage default risk for vulnerable homeowners by utilizing mortgage reserve accounts that could help homeowners overcome temporary hardships, which would benefit Black families, who are more than twice as likely as white families to lose their home to foreclosure.
Read More »OCC Reports Improvement in Q1 Mortgage Performance
Overall mortgage performance was on the upswing in the first quarter of 2023, as the OCC reported banks serviced approximately 12 million first-lien residential mortgage loans with $2.7 trillion in unpaid principal balances—representing 22% of all residential mortgage debt outstanding nationwide.
Read More »GSE REO Inventory on the Rise in Q1
In addition, a new report notes that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac completed 58,268 foreclosure prevention actions in Q1 2023. Click through to read the other data from the GSEs’ Q1 2023 Foreclosure Prevention and Refinance Report.
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