Tag Archives: Loan Modification

Housing counseling as a resource to reduce the need for loan modification and foreclosures has been shown to be very beneficial since the housing crisis, but is there still more housing counseling can do to further impact homeowners?

David G. Marowske recently spoke with DS News about cases in which borrowers are trying to force servicers into accepting a loan modification.

Foreclosure alternatives continued to outpace foreclosure sales by nearly four to one and shows the wide range of options available to homeowners in both the short and long term.

In response to accusations from institutional investors against Ocwen Financial of "failure to perform," investment advisor LL Funds has come to the defense of the embattled mortgage servicer in the form of an independent 26-page white paper titled "In Defense of Ocwen Servicing" released Friday.

Washington, D.C.-based NeighborWorks America, one of the nation's largest community development corporations, announced that more than 1.8 million homeowners have received foreclosure prevention counseling through the association's National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling Program (NFMC).

Declines in mortgage interest rates helped spur a pickup in refinances in August, even as interest in the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) continues to wane.

About 40,000 homeowners nationwide received permanent mortgage loan modifications from servicers in August, which includes loans completed through proprietary programs and under the government's Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), according to data released by the HOPE NOW Alliance on Thursday.

Many private student loan borrowers are being driven into default due to a lack of information and affordable loan modification options, according to a report released Thursday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Student Loan Ombudsman.

Nearly half of the mortgages that were in foreclosure in December 2013 were still in foreclosure as of the end of August, according to the Black Knight Financial Services August Mortgage Monitor released earlier in the week.

A Mexican national living in Wichita, Kansas, was sentenced for fraudulently obtaining a mortgage modification loan through the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), which is funded by the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), Special Inspector General for TARP (SIGTARP) Christy Romero announced recently.