Category: News and Trends

DETROIT–Different models; different strategies; different successes. Regardless of the approach, executives here at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Technology Solutions Conference & Expo agree: technology is transforming their business.

DETROIT–Different models; different strategies; different successes. Regardless of the approach, executives here at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Technology Solutions Conference & Expo agree: technology is transforming their business.

Changes in technology, supply chains and consumer habits all continue to drive leasing demand for industrial properties, propelling the sector’s vacancies to their lowest levels on record, reported Ten-X Commercial, Irvine, Calif.

ATTOM Data Solutions, Irvine, Calif., reported a 4 percent increase in foreclosure filings in the first quarter but noted such filings fell by nearly 20 percent from a year ago.

If–and when–housing finance reform eventually becomes effective, the resulting entities that securitize and/or guarantee U.S. mortgages will be appropriately capitalized, have ample access to capital markets and be regulated such that high investment-grade ratings will likely be warranted, said Fitch Ratings, New York.

The Mortgage Bankers Association released a new MBANow video featuring MBA Associate Vice President and Managing Regulatory Counsel Justin Wiseman, who discusses recent requests for information issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The Mortgage Bankers Association released a new MBANow video featuring MBA Associate Vice President and Managing Regulatory Counsel Justin Wiseman, who discusses recent requests for information issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The Mortgage Bankers Association released a new MBANow video featuring MBA Associate Vice President and Managing Regulatory Counsel Justin Wiseman, who discusses recent requests for information issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

CoreLogic, Irvine, Calif., said mortgage delinquencies fell in January as the impact from 2017 hurricanes and wildfires faded.

The Mortgage Bankers Association and nearly two dozen other industry trade groups expressed support for a bill that would alter governance of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from a single director to a five-person, bipartisan commission.