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DS News Webcast: Friday 2/26/2016

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Wells Fargo is not out of the woods yet even after agreeing to a 1 point 2 billion dollar settlement earlier in February over its underwriting practices on FHA-insured loans. According to Wells Fargo’s annual 10-K filing this week, the ...

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DS News Webcast: Thursday 2/25/2016

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The composite Agency National Mortgage Risk Index (NMRI) for January 2016 released by AEI’s International Center for Housing Risk on Wednesday, covering both purchase loans and refinances, climbed by zero point 44 percentage points up to 11 point 70 percent for January ...

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DS News Webcast: Wednesday 2/24/2016

The single-family rental market has gained significant popularity as an asset class in the last two years or so. Investors who are looking to increase their footprint in the SFR market should consider looking in one of the top 10 U.S. ...

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DS News Webcast: Tuesday 2/23/2016

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Ocwen Financial experienced its second straight financially difficult year, reporting a net loss of 224 million dollars for the fourth quarter of 2015 and a net loss of 246 million dollars for the full year of 2015 in the servicer’s ...

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DS News Webcast: Monday 2/29/2016

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The U.S. Department of Treasury announced on Friday that it would provide up to 2 billion dollars in additional Troubled Asset Relief Program  funds for the Hardest Hit Fund program to put toward assisting struggling homeowners and stabilizing communities that were most ...

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DS News Webcast: Friday 2/19/2016

Five Star Institute President and CEO Ed Delgado recently met with HUD Secretary Julián Castro to ask the Secretary to consider issuing a mortgagee letter to set the definition and criteria for identifying vacant and abandoned properties and then accelerating those properties to foreclosure. ...

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DS News Webcast: Wednesday 2/17/2016

First mortgage default rates started the new year exactly where they left the old one, according to the latest S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices released Tuesday. According to the report, first mortgage and auto loan default rates were unchanged for January, ...

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DS News Webcast: Tuesday 2/16/2016

Not everyone thinks the economy is as bad off as doomsayers have been saying lately. In fact, William Dudley, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, says the expansion we’ve experienced for the past seven years has ...

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DS News Webcast: Monday 2/15/2016

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The New York Fed’s Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, released Friday, showed what is, overall, a modest increase in U.S. household indebtedness. Overall debt, counting mortgages, HELOCS, credit cards, student loans, and auto loans, reached 12 point 12 trillion ...

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DS News Webcast: Friday 2/12/2016

The Federal Housing Administration’s Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund, Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program, and the Agency’s mission were the focal points in Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Edward Golding’s testimony before the House Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance on Thursday. Golding said ...

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