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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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DS News Webcast: Thursday 2/11/2016

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While testifying before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen noted that persistent economic headwinds have kept the federal funds target rate at a historically low level—and that future rate hikes may occur even more ...

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DS News Webcast: Wednesday 2/10/2016

CoreLogic reported in its National Foreclosure Report for December 2015 released Tuesday that the nationwide foreclosure inventory totaled 433 thousand in December, or 1 point 1 percent of all homes with a mortgage, which was down by almost one-quarter from ...

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DS News Webcast: Tuesday 2/9/2016

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While President Barack Obama failed to mention housing policy at all last month in his final State of the Union address last month, his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2017 to be unveiled Tuesday calls for a substantial investment in ...

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DS News Webcast: Friday 2/5/2016

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The share of homes that were all-cash transactions in October 2015 fell by 2.6 percentage points over-the-year down to 34 percent, meaning that of all residential home sales during the month, slightly more than a third were paid for in ...

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