I would just like to send my congratulations to my Alma Mater, Villanova, who won the Men’s Basketball National Championship. Last night may have been the greatest playoff game ending of all time. Most importantly, the young men on the team played and won with both class and style. #ProudNovaAlum
A recent Lender One survey found that many mortgage lenders are expressing confidence in the current housing market. About 62% of the lenders surveyed are expecting that mortgage lending for home purchases will increase by about 11% on average in 2016. That’s good news on the purchase front – but what about refi’s? In another study, the American Enterprise Institute…
Maybe secondary market investors and correspondent lenders can take a page out of Fannie’s and Freddie’s rep and warrants book. These agencies are not delaying the purchase, holding up funding or denying the purchase of loans originated and closed under the new TRID rules. They buy the loans originated by lenders for sale and delivery to them; either whole loan…
It’s not unusual for Mortgage Lenders to openly recruit their competitors best loan originators. It’s not unusual for the most productive originators to get the best offers to move. Unfortunately, it is also not unusual for these originators to try, by any method they can, to move their pipeline of business from one company to another when they make a…
In honor of college basketball’s annual “Big Dance” held in March in which approximately 68 men’s teams compete for the NCAA Championship and ultimately boils down to the “Final Four.” It is a good time to reflect on the Four C’s of Single Family loan underwriting. They are Capacity, Credit, Cash and Collateral. Outlined below is a brief description of…
There are quite a number of tools available to lenders and Quality Control firms these days to help identify and prevent fraud in the processing, underwriting and closing of mortgage loan transactions. Automated risk assessment reports, AVMs, Collateral Underwriter, backup credit reports, CAIVRS, Internet Searches, etc. are used on an ongoing basis by industry personnel in helping to identify possible…
