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…
According to Fitch Rating, investors may be a little too picky when it comes to denying loan purchases because of a TRID document not being prepared exactly per the new rules (TRIDSlips). The amount of data required to appear on each new disclosure, coupled with the requirements for how it should be reported, creates some major challenges for a lender.…
If you attended the recent Conference of Regional MBAs in Atlantic City, you heard Barry Habib, President of MBS Highway, talk about why he believes we may see another surge in refinances if/when the Fed raises short-term rates (Rates). Barry made a similar prediction last year of decreasing rates and was correct. We did see loan rates drop when the…
