BREAKING NEWS
Loans in Forbearance Fall for 11th Straight Week
Loans in forbearance fell for the 11th consecutive week to 4.22% of servicers' portfolio volume as of May 9, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Monday.
Builder confidence held stable in May, despite growing concerns over the price and availability of most building materials, including lumber, the National Association of Home Builders reported Monday.
The improving economy created a favorable capital markets environment for commercial real estate lending in early 2021 despite continuing challenges in office and retail loan underwriting, said CBRE, Dallas.
On Wednesday, May 5, U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich issued an order vacating the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's national eviction moratorium. But with the number of Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths falling, increased attention is being paid to when, and how, to allow the various moratoriums to phase-out.
Significant affordability challenges exist across the country and the issue is a top priority for the Biden Administration. In April, the Mortgage Bankers Association virtually convened business and policy executives for a series of conversations on the 2021 affordable rental housing landscape. Here are some key takeaways from that event.
Walker & Dunlop, Bethesda, Md., structured $55.6 million in financing for three Chicago-area skilled nursing facilities.
Used by more than 25% of the top brokerage firms and more than 15% of the top mortgage originators in the U.S., Adwerx delivers personalized, omnichannel brand marketing and automation at enterprise scale.
Gene Ludwig is founder of the Promontory family of companies and CEO of Promontory MortgagePath, a technology-based mortgage fulfillment and solutions company. He is also managing partner of Canapi, a venture capital firm focused on investments in early to growth-stage fintech companies. He was Comptroller of the Currency under President Bill Clinton.
Mortgage servicing has certainly seen ups and downs over the years, although nothing compares to the level of upheaval that we saw last year—nor the speed at which it occurred. Out of the chaos, however, new opportunities to excel have emerged, and perhaps the biggest one of all has been the ability to run a remote workforce with success.
Our three previous articles made the argument for behavioral standards, how to set those expectations, and a valuable response to an LO’s efforts to meet your requirements. Those presentations assumed LOs are willing to change their actions to deliver required results. In this part we address how you might effectively respond when an underperforming LO lacks the motivation to make those changes.
The plethora of aaS over the past decade has within their silos been nothing short of a disruptive phase shift of hardware, network, data, and software consumption. However, what happens when these aaS offerings are merged, stacked, and branched to arrive at containers of agility and innovation all serving rapidly evolving customers and their expectations of how finance should be conducted?
The Mortgage Bankers Association presented its annual Burton C. Wood Legislative Service Award to John Fleming, Counsel of the Law Offices of John Fleming, and General Counsel of the Texas Mortgage Bankers Association.
