Does A Loan Originator Have To Buy Back A Bad Loan Even After It’s Modified? Yesterday I mentioned the question about whether or not modified loans could still be forced back to the seller for buybacks. Freddie Mac does indeed say that the seller would still need to buy it back after a modification. At
Loan Modifications
Do Employees Make Less In Tight Job Market? Whether it is a house, a bushel of wheat, or a share of stock, when a buyer and seller come together an item trades hands. A lower price will always benefit the buyer. Is that the case in the labor market, where buyers (employers) and sellers (employees)
Federal Home Loan Bank of SF Sues Dealers The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco sued nine securities dealers alleging they misled it about the credit quality and risks of loans behind $19.1 billion in private-label residential mortgage-backed securities. Among several dealers, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America were named
Loan Agents Comment on New Good Faith Estimate I didn’t plan on yesterday’s Real Words From a Real Agent to incite such a firestorm of e-mails. But first, some “Good Faith Estimate chatter.” The grace period of the new GFE is set forth pretty clearly. But lenders are finding out that what HUD allows and
A San Francisco Chronicle mortgage rate story yesterday does a good job simplifying the factors affecting mortgage rates as we move through 2010. It’s a useful consumer-friendly piece on how the Fed’s mortgage bond program works, when it’s ending and what might happen when it does end. It also includes updates on the homebuyer tax
I thought about taking today off from the commentary to celebrate, since yesterday I won all 4 quarters of my office’s Super Bowl pool! And then I remembered that I was the only one in the pool, don’t really have an office, and that the net effect of my $50 a square winnings was about
One never knows when the subject of mortgage banking will pop up – like yesterday. There I was at the Sundance Ski Resort (the one owned by “Bob” Redford) with my son. (He was there to snow board, I was there in the lodge trying to figure out an opening paragraph for today’s commentary.) I
Seven More Banks Fail, 2009 Tally At 140 Wanna buy a bank? Now is a good time to give that someone special a little something special – like a failed bank. Seven U.S. banks were taken over on Friday, and the FDIC could not find buyers for three of them. It brings the total to
Attack of the FHA loan files? Most of the United States begins Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and reverts to standard time on the first Sunday in November. So by my calculations, that means that this Sunday here in the U.S. most of us “fall back” and it
The Wall Street Journal reports that, due to the federal tax credit to buy high-mileage cars, the Federal government is now paying Americans to buy golf carts. As it turns out, the IRS has ruled that golf carts qualify for the electric-car credit as long as they are also road worthy. The federal credit “provides
“A woman in Great Britain has died after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball, on the first hole. Her husband was so distraught he only played the front nine.” Stories like that are terrible, and it is hard for men to catch a break. It is also hard for
Greetings from San Diego, where, coincidentally, there is a national mortgage banking conference. Although I didn’t see any chains of mortgage banker types forming conga lines in any hotel lobbies, the mood here has improved since the last few conferences, and most are cautiously optimistic. There is still the “Hey, congratulations, we’re still in the
Greetings from San Diego, where, coincidentally, there is a national mortgage banking conference. Although I didn’t see any chains of mortgage banker types forming conga lines in any hotel lobbies, the mood here has improved since the last few conferences, and most are cautiously optimistic. There is still the “Hey, congratulations, we’re still in the
Loan modifications, which seem to have more of an impact on the larger investors than on the smaller brokers, have come a long way since earlier this year. An assortment of modification programs have been almost entirely replaced by HAMP, now the industry standard for first liens, and servicers have streamlined, to a much greater
Amazon.com WidgetsThe chatter about underwater homeowners “just walking away” from their debt deafens us at various intervals during this recession (here’s the latest from 1/7/10), and it’s hard to deny the rationale for walking away for certain specific cases. But recent favorable data can, just like negative foreclosure data, cause sentiment to change—in much the
In a roundabout way, this is may be a sign of further good news about the economy or real estate markets: Flagstar added only four areas to their declining markets list: Honolulu, Kalamazoo, Manchester, and Niles-Benton Harbor. In turn, they removed over a dozen areas from their declining market list, including Akron, Atlanta, Chicago, Cincinnati,
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