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Mortgage Industry Trends

Home Equity Going Up; Mortgage Rates Stay Down

Okay, a little good news for a change. A CoreLogic report indicates that to date about 9 million current homeowners have regained positive home equity. Residential property owner’s still carrying negative equity is down to about 3.1 million. Some highlights of the report: 635 of homeowners realized a $7.66 billion increase in the last year On average, each homeowner saw…

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Mortgage Compliance

Fannie Issues Guidance on NCAP Changes

In case you didn’t know, NCAP is the National Consumer Assistance Plan. Under this plan, the 3 credit repositories will no longer report most civil judgments and tax liens, or unpaid medical bills less than 6 months. They say it’s because, in many cases, these issues are not accurate and they may negatively impact a consumer’s credit profile and score.…

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Mortgage Industry Trends

Are We Heading For Another Disaster?

With times being a little tough for many lenders, I hate to bring up anything negative about potentials for increased lending, but I will. Although there is a shortage of homes in the range that would be considered as affordable, there is currently quite a bit of activity from first-time homebuyers resulting from the many low down payment programs and…

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