We may soon see some new innovations when it comes to the standard for all mortgages, the traditional 30-year fixed rate loan; a mortgage loan product that was developed back during the Great Depression. Hey, what was so ‘Great’ about it? This loan was meant to spread out the cost of someone buying a home so they didn’t need so…
With the decrease in mortgage originations, Correspondent and Wholesale Lenders are facing the prospect of having to acquire business from new sources. This means bringing in loans from new loan brokers in more areas of the country. That creates the challenge of managing the process of registering, pricing, approving, and closing more loans from a myriad of different lenders throughout…
After the elections, all we heard was that the Fed would most likely raise rates 2 or 3 times in 2017, maybe more. The smart money was that the 10-year treasury would yield about 3% by now. Mortgage rates were going to go up! Not quite, in fact, the 10 year is still below 2.5% and rates ain’t so high.…
With the TRID 2.0 changes finalized and changes to address the ‘Black Hole’ out for comment, some in Congress are already looking at additional upgrades to the Rule. A Bill sponsored by Representative French Hill (R /AK) was introduced for discussion in the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee. Try and say that one…
It’s no secret that the mortgage industry has been a little slow to the table when it comes to the use of technology in handling loan originations. Although the need was recognized, when the housing market was good, the timing was all wrong. Why spend time and money searching for, developing, and implementing new technologies when everyone was making so…
You’ve probably heard by now that on July 29th Equifax learned their systems were hacked from mid-May through July. Yes, Equifax, one of the country’s 3 main repositories of all consumer personal and credit information. The cyber thieves acquired sensitive personal information on 143 million American consumers. That’s a whole lot of data on a whole lotta people. Not good.…
