Lending

June 19, 2013

Lenders merit a common credit box, clearer rep and warrants: MBA

"If we are to have a fully functioning secondary market that provides sustainable access to credit for qualified...

Mortgage applications reverse, decline again

Mortgage applications fell 3.3% for the week ending June 14 as home purchases and refinancings cooled. Both the refinance and purchase index fell 3%, after each rose 5% a week earlier.

They Said It

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"Mortgage lending is not hard any more. There's one product. Here's your 30-year fixed. Here's your rate. When do you want to lock?"

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The Ticker

» Study finds same-sex couples face housing bias

» Sacramento grows mortgage industry jobs

» Servicers foreclosing in Lynn, Mass. face hard-hitting ordinance

» Foreclosure filings plummet, fall 50% in Colorado

» Rates rising too quickly could hurt housing recovery

» Arnold Schwarzenegger sells former Pacific Palisades home

» Industry runs thin on lender talent

» NY AG fights Credit Suisse MBS case

» Pressure looms to enhance risk management of MBS market

» What the central bank chairman wants to say, but won't

Lending News

Title II misses Dodd-Frank's too-big-to-fail goals

Mortgage applications retreat after steady climb

DeMarco: FHLBanks should grow involvement in secondary market

Navy Federal Credit Union continues to roll with no-money-down mortgages

Monday Morning Cup of Coffee: California housing market tightens, FDIC closes 2 banks

Lower credit scores disappear from housing market: Fed governor

Fixed-mortgage rates reverse, edge higher: Freddie Mac

Walker & Dunlop 1Q profit more than doubles

Like a person, a loan goes through many stages of life. It starts from birth as a purchase application, and as long as it stays on the right path, it will eventually be paid off. Part one of Life of a Loan dives further into what entails a purchase application.

June Cover Story

Virtual realty: HousingWire's top 50 real estate tech solutions

HousingWire introduces its inaugural RETech:50 highlighting the accomplishments of 50 technology-driven real estate companies.

Feature

Private-label RMBS trailblazer Redwood Trust sets aggressive issuance pace

by Christina Mlynski

There are only a handful of consistencies investors can rely on in the private-label market these days. Redwood Trust issuing at least one residential mortgage-backed securities deal a month is one.

Commentary

Too big to fail remains issue

by David Altig

As Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has indicated, too-big-to-fail remains a major issue that is not solved, but "there’s a lot of work in train."

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