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During a House Committee on Financial Services hearing, experts and politicians put forth ideas to improve Community Development Block Grant flexibility, with an emphasis on helping homeowners during the rebuilding process.

At a Senate Committee Hearing on Sen. Mike Crapo’s housing finance reform outline, experts gave their opinions on how best to bring about a more sustainable market.

Gateway Mortgage Group, LLC, announced Joe Siegel as its Chief Banking Officer. In this role, Siegel is responsible for executive oversight of the company’s Commercial, Consumer, and Specialty Lending activities in addition to Retail Banking services.

OpenClose, a loan origination system (LOS) and mortgage fintech provider, announced that it is has scheduled a May release for the official rollout of its digital mortgage point-of-sale (POS) solution, ConsumerAssist Digital POS.

The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act’s definition of “debt collectors” has led to both extensive litigation and contradictory Circuit Court decisions. Codilis & Associates member Lauren Riddick dives into the impact of the case, and discusses how the results may clear up some of these contradictions.

Homeowners are feeling a high debt-to-income ratio, but according to recent data, not all is lost. Here’s how some of that pressure may be relieved.

To figure out where 20- to 29-year-olds are buying the most homes, a report calculated where they took out the highest percentage of mortgages in 2018 in the 200 largest metropolitan areas. Here’s what it revealed.

An inverted yield curve late last week has some sounding the alarm for a possible economic downturn on the horizon. How could this affect a residential mortgage market that’s already starting to cool?

Here’s what the Office of the Comptroller of Currency’s report on the country’s mortgage performance revealed about the state of mortgage servicing and delinquencies across the nation.

Fannie Mae announced that it has appointed Stergios “Terry” Theologides as EVP, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary effective March 28, 2019. Theologides most recently served as CoreLogic, Inc.’s SVP, General Counsel, and Secretary.