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Category: News and Trends
Celebrating 50 Years of the Certified Mortgage Banker Designation
We’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB) designation program and you too can become part of the elite group that has achieved the highest level of professional success.
MBA Newslink Premier Member Profile: Dark Matter Technologies
(One in a continuing series of profiles of Premier Members of the Mortgage Bankers Association.)
Seth Sprague Presented with CMB Society’s Rosser Lifetime Achievement Award
PHILADELPHIA–The Certified Mortgage Banker Society presented Seth Sprague, CMB®, Director of Mortgage Banking Consulting Services at Richey May, with its E. Michael Rosser, CMB, MBA Education Lifetime Achievement Award here at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s 2023 Annual Convention & Expo.
MORPAC Presents Kim Lanham with the 2023 Schumacher-Bolduc Award
PHILADELPHIA–The Mortgage Bankers Association Political Action Committee (MORPAC) awarded Kim Lanham, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Mphasis Digital Risk, with the 2023 Schumacher-Bolduc Award.
Quote: Oct. 19, 2023
“New home purchase activity weakened in September, as the recent spike in mortgage rates pushed more homebuyers out of the market.”
–Joel Kan, MBA Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist.
MBA Weekly Survey Oct. 18: Mortgage Applications Decrease
Mortgage applications decreased 6.9 percent from one week earlier, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending Oct. 13, 2023.
Wharton’s Susan Wachter: Keep an Eye on 2025
Susan Wachter, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and expert on housing finance, real estate and urban economics, had a takeaway for those in the industry wondering when brighter times will come: “Stay alive until 2025.”
MISMO Publishes Version 3.5 Property and Valuation Services Implementation Guide
MISMO®, the real estate finance industry’s standards organization, published the Version 3.5 Property and Valuation Services (PaVS) Implementation Guide (iGuide).
Wharton’s Susan Wachter: Keep an Eye on 2025
Susan Wachter, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and expert on housing finance, real estate and urban economics, had a takeaway for those in the industry wondering when brighter times will come: “Stay alive until 2025.”