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SAN DIEGO--The Mortgage Bankers Association this week awarded Stacey Berger, Executive Vice President of Midland Loan Services, with its 2020 Commercial Real Estate Finance Distinguished Service Award.
Redfin, Seattle, said the imbalance between demand from homebuyers and supply of homes for sale is heating up many markets across the U.S.
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Freddie Mac, McLean, Va., said affordability remains top of mind for those individuals looking to rent or purchase a home.
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A major share of homeowners has a new home purchase in mind in the coming years. Another group plan to downsize by renting, according a survey by LendingTree, New York.
First American Financial Corp., Santa Ana, Calif., a provider of title insurance, settlement services and risk services for real estate transactions, and Docutech, a provider of document, eClose and fulfillment technology for the mortgage industry, signed an agreement for First American’s acquisition of Docutech.
The last decade has been good to the mortgage industry. In fact, we have gone an entire decade without a recession. Following the last mortgage crisis of 2008 that brought the entire industry to its knees, we have seen a strong return with high home values and vibrant lending and origination activity.
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.
John Vong, CMB, CMT, is president and co-founder of ComplianceEase, Burlingame, Calif., and a frequent contributor to MBA NewsLink.
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.
SAN DIEGO--The Mortgage Bankers Association awarded Freddie Mac Multifamily with the 2020 Commercial/Multifamily Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Leadership Award.
