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September 29, 2011

NATIONWIDE   OCC moves to restore confidence in the housing market The OCC helped the banks with their future plans: 14 servicers who received consent orders from federal regulators earlier this year will have long and dusty road ahead, as they need to spend the next year or more recompensing for past documentation errors, coming [...]

OCC moves to restore confidence in the housing market

The OCC helped the banks with their future plans: 14 servicers who received consent orders from federal regulators earlier this year will have long and dusty road ahead, as they need to spend the next year or more recompensing for past documentation errors, coming from their faulty foreclosure proceedings. “Unfortunately, such a complex process will [...]

Is the robo-signing settlement falling apart?

12 months after evidence surfaced about the existence of robo-signing practices, state attorneys general aren’t getting closer to a consensus on what the settlement should include or not. Fact is, Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway and Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson now took Schneiderman’s role and they are now speak against the settlement agreement, which [...]

September 22, 2011

NATIONWIDE   Appraisals to help GSEs monitor the mortgage market The unregulated housing market ended up collapsing a couple years ago and this isn’t what the government-sponsored enterprises want to witness again, so they published new guidelines which took effect at the end of last month. These guidelines cover the work of appraisers and help [...]

Appraisals to help GSEs monitor the mortgage market

The unregulated housing market ended up collapsing a couple years ago and this isn’t what the government-sponsored enterprises want to witness again, so they published new guidelines which took effect at the end of last month. These guidelines cover the work of appraisers and help the GSEs to build a massive database of every appraisal [...]

Bank of America foreclosures jumped nearly 70%

As the nation’s biggest lender, Bank of America resumed its foreclosures, notice of default filings jumped nearly 70% in California from July, ForeclosureRadar reported. Foreclosure starts increased in five West Coast States from the previous month: California, Arizona, Washington, Oregon and Nevada. According to ForeclosureRadar statistics, Bank of America foreclosure starts more than doubled last [...]

September 14, 2011

NATIONWIDE   Questions remain unanswered after Obama announces refinancing plan After listening to President Obama’s jobs plan leading analysts were disappointed by what he said, because they don’t saw any clear direction of the housing market. Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi said “The president’s plan is large, but in some key respects it is [...]

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launches fourth round of mortgage disclosure form testing

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or CFPB collects feedback about sample mortgage disclosure forms to help the agency construct standard uniform lending documents for the industry. The fourth round of testing is part of CFPB’s “Know Before You Owe” campaign. The agency posted identical mortgage forms online this week with different loan products printed on [...]

Questions remain unanswered after Obama announces refinancing plan

After listening to President Obama’s jobs plan leading analysts were disappointed by what he said, because they don’t saw any clear direction of the housing market. Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi said “The president’s plan is large, but in some key respects it is not complete. Most notably, it does not directly address the [...]

September 8, 2011

NATIONWIDE   HUD gives states results of robo-signing probe After a year of investigation, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has result in the robo-signing case, Iowa Attorney General’s spokesman said. As the date of the settlement approaches, Iowa Attorney General surprises the taxpayers with news each day. The latest one is the result [...]