John Vong, CMB, CMT, is president and co-founder of ComplianceEase, Burlingame, Calif., and a frequent contributor to MBA NewsLink.
Category: News and Trends
Mortgage Vendor News & Views with Scott Roller
In this ongoing article series, we report on mortgage and credit union vendor marketplace events and trends, and we then share our viewpoints. The theme for today’s article is impeachment.
Homes Sold Above List Price Fall to 3-Year Low; Luxury Homes Pick Up
Zillow, Seattle, said the share of U.S. homes that sold for more than their list price in 2019 fell to 19.9%, the lowest annually since 2016.
People in the News
SAN DIEGO–The Mortgage Bankers Association awarded Freddie Mac Multifamily with the 2020 Commercial/Multifamily Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Leadership Award.
Mortgage Applications Up Again in MBA Weekly Survey
Mortgage applications rose for the third straight week, continuing a solid start to the new year despite a slight increase in interest rates, the Mortgage Bankers Associations morning in its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending February 7.
John Vong, CMB, CMT, on eExams and Lending Compliance
John Vong, CMB, CMT, is president and co-founder of ComplianceEase, Burlingame, Calif., and a frequent contributor to MBA NewsLink.
MBA: 4Q Mortgage Delinquencies Fall to 40-Year Low
Mortgage delinquency rates for loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties in the fourth quarter fell to the lowest level since the Mortgage Bankers Association began tracking such data.
#CREF2020: PNC, Wells Fargo Lead MBA 2019 Year-End Commercial/Multifamily Servicer Rankings
SAN DIEGO–The Mortgage Bankers Association released its year-end ranking of commercial and multifamily mortgage servicers’ volumes as of December 31, here at the MBA 2020 Commercial Real Estate Finance/Multifamily Housing Convention & Expo.
Matt Johnner: ‘The Last Frontier of Lending’
Today, everything from mortgage lending to online banking uses technology to help save time. In the past few years, technology has gone from a luxury to a necessity and with that shift has come a flood of new technologies that automate nearly every process out there. This is also true of mortgage lending.
Mortgage Applications Up Again in MBA Weekly Survey
Mortgage applications rose for the third straight week, continuing a solid start to the new year despite a slight increase in interest rates, the Mortgage Bankers Associations morning in its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending February 7.