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NoteSchool, an online provider of high level training on real estate note investment, presented a webinar on Thursday, June 25, to show participants a simple form of real estate note investing in which investors can access good properties by buying notes directly from hedge funds.

The Five Star Institute has announced the launch of the American Mortgage Diversity Council, a member organization comprised of industry leaders and advocates focused on shaping the diversity agenda for the mortgage industry. The AMDC's goal is to drive results that ...

The May 2015 First-Time Buyer Mortgage Risk Index for agency loans reached a series record of 15.66 in May, an increase of half a percentage point from the previous three months and 1.1 percentage points from May 2014, according to data released Monday by ...

Just two weeks after being upgraded by Moody's Investor Service and being placed Standard & Poor's CreditWatch list for a downgrade, S&P cut Ocwen Financial's rankings for residential mortgage prime, subprime, special, and subordinate-lien from Average to Below Average. S&P said that it believed "regulatory ...

During his testimony this week before the full House Financial Services Committee, U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew stated when asked about GSEs and the conservatorship that the system should be restructured, but the time was not right for ...

Eligible borrowers and their heirs will be able to claim uncashed payments totaling about 280 million dollars made pursuant to the 2013 Independent Foreclosure Review Payment Agreement through their respective states' escheatment processes, according to an announcement from the Office of the ...

The national composite default index reported a historic low for the second month in a row in May, one of four out of five national indices to report historic lows for the month, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices and S&P/Experian ...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency's activities in 2014 to achieve the strategic goal of maintaining foreclosure prevention activities and fostering resilient housing markets included HARP outreach, loss mitigation strategies, and non-performing loan sales, according to FHFA's 2014 Report to Congress released Monday. ...

The Federal Housing Administration on Friday announced revisions to its Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program that will allow FHA-approved lenders to offer more options to eligible surviving non-borrowing spouses. The revisions announced Friday allow for the deferral of due and ...

Freddie Mac announced Thursday that it sold 157 deeply delinquent non-performing loans totaling about 31 million dollars in aggregate unpaid principal balance in its first-ever Extended Timeline Pool Offering sale on June 3. EXPOs differ from Freddie Mac's Standard Pool Offerings in ...