Black Knight, Jacksonville, Fla., said with its analysis of borrowers in forbearance showing forbearance volumes falling for the first time since the crisis began, industry participants – especially servicers and mortgage investors – must now shift from pipeline growth to pipeline management and downstream performance of loans in forbearance.
Category: News and Trends
Chris McEntee of ICE Mortgage Services on COVID-19 and Impetus for the Digital Mortgage Process
Chris McEntee is President of ICE Mortgage Services, Atlanta, the business unit responsible the Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS), which is now part of Intercontinental Exchange Inc. He serves as a Director of ICE Mortgage Services, the governing board of MERSCORP Holdings Inc. and chairs the Company’s Compliance, Governance and Risk Management Committee.
Tom Lamalfa: May 2020 Survey of Secondary Market Executives
What follows are findings from a survey of senior mortgage executives I conducted in the first half of May. Due to cancelation of MBA’s National Secondary Market Conference, this survey was completed over the phone rather than face to face, as has been the case in the 23 preceding surveys done since 2008.
Q&A With M&T Realty Capital’s Michael Berman, CMB, and Jeffrey Rodman
MBA NewsLink interviewed M&T Realty Capital Corporation President & CEO Michael Berman, CMB, and Affordable Housing Program Manager Jeffrey Rodman about MTRCC’s business lines and affordable housing efforts.
MBA Education Path to Diversity Scholar Profile: Deborah Reavis, AMP
(One of a continuing series of profiles of participants in the MBA Education Path to Diversity (P2D) Scholarship Program, which enables employees from diverse backgrounds to advance their professional growth and career development.)
MBA Advocacy Update: June 8, 2020
MBA remains actively engaged with decision-makers at all levels of government to help shape the response to the effects of the pandemic on the mortgage market. Last week, the Senate passed legislation that would ease restrictions on the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program, which President Trump signed into law on Friday.
(#MBALive) Closing Loans During a Pandemic With RIN and RON
Enterprising mortgage companies are using what they have to ensure consumers can still obtain loans during the COVID-19 crisis.
MBA Chart of the Week: Measures of Apartment Stress in March and May
There has been an important disconnect between the labor market and apartment markets over the last two months.
An Upbeat Jobs Report, Followed by a ‘Misclassification Error’
At 8:30 a.m. on Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a surprising May unemployment report: instead of the 8 million job losses expected by economists’ consensus, the report showed a dramatic 2.5 million increase in jobs, and a 1.4 percent dip in the unemployment rate, from 14.7 percent in April to 13.3 percent. But there was a catch–a huge catch.
Dealmaker: Enterprise, Fellowship Square Close on $86M Construction Financing
Enterprise Community Development, Columbia, Md., and Fellowship Square Foundation, Reston, Va. received $86 million to build the new Lake Anne House in Reston, Va. outside Washington, D.C.