Cities Hit Roadblocks in Eminent Domain Plans | Realtor Magazine
Daily Real Estate News | Tuesday, January 14, 2014. Richmond, Calif., is finding that … The idea is to modify the loans and help home owners avoid foreclosure Read the rest here: Cities Hit Roadblocks...
View ArticleFHA: The incredible, shrinking mortgage resource
Is FHA sending its most profitable, lowest-risk customers — homebuyers who have very good to excellent credit — to Fannie and Freddie for their mortgages, thereby losing significant market share? Yes...
View ArticleGlimmers of hope in wages and lending, but jobs are holding back housing
The first week of each month brings a blizzard of fresh data from the month immediately prior, and an even more blinding wave of contradictory analysis. Except when the data reveal a big change in...
View ArticleThe conventional wisdom on why home sales have stalled is wrong
New data has pushed housing to the forefront of the recovery discussion. Read the rest here: The conventional wisdom on why home sales have stalled is wrong
View ArticleMortgage rates hit low for the year on economic worries including housing
Mortgage rates hit a new low for the year this week as worries about the economy made relatively safe investments like Treasury notes and mortgage-backed securities look more attractive to investors....
View ArticleRepair credit stigma forcing real estate agents and homebuyers to sidestep...
If your purchase contract contains an inspection contingency and the inspection report comes back with repairs, the lender may require those repairs to be completed before funding the loan. What will...
View ArticleEurozone rate cut could boost mortgage lending and give overseas investors...
This article by OPP Connect editor Adrian Bishop is reposted with permission from OPP Connect. Currency and financial experts believe the 0.1 percent cut in the European Central Bank benchmark and the...
View ArticleCFPB Clarifies Rule That Could Cause Heirs To Lose Their Homes …
Today's interpretive rule makes it clear that when family members inherit property, they can take over the mortgage without jumping through unnecessary hoops,” CFPB Director Richard Cordray says in a...
View ArticleHomeLight opens up the door to mortgage lenders, title insurers
SAN FRANCISCO — HomeLight is now allowing agents who have claimed profiles on the site to create list of recommended vendors, opening up the door for them to use the platform to recommend other real...
View ArticleCentury 21 China Real Estate, Lending Club of China forge alliance
Century 21 China Real Estate, the exclusive franchisor of the Century 21 brand in China, says it’s out to build its mortgage business under an agreement with the Lending Club of China that’s aimed at...
View ArticleTime to redesign our system of mortgage lending
Long-term rates have stabilized, mortgages just under 4.5 percent, but markets are rattled and it’s hard to tell exactly who or what is doing the shaking. The Fed has everybody uneasy, simultaneously...
View ArticleMortgage lending startup gets $1.5M boost from investors
Mortgage lending startup Lenda has raised $1.54 million in seed funding the company says it will use to expand into new markets. Excerpt from: Mortgage lending startup gets $1.5M boost from investors
View ArticleMortgage lending startup gets $1.5M boost from investors
Mortgage lending startup Lenda has raised $1.54 million in seed funding the company says it will use to expand into new markets. Continued here: Mortgage lending startup gets $1.5M boost from investors
View ArticleThe good news in finance this week was not what you might think
Financial markets have stopped their hysterics for now, so let’s get some other things straight. Things about mortgage and other credit. Go here to read the rest: The good news in finance this week was...
View ArticleNAR’s candidates won big in the elections. That doesn’t mean Realtors will...
With a little help from the National Association of Realtors, Republicans regained control of the Senate and increased their majority in the House of Representatives in last week’s elections. But...
View ArticleFHA is back in the black, but don’t hold your breath for premium rollbacks
The Federal Housing Administration’s mutual mortgage insurance fund is unlikely to need another taxpayer bailout, but that doesn’t mean homebuyers looking to finance purchases with an FHA-backed home...
View ArticleOnline mortgage marketplace raises another $5 million
Sindeo, an online mortgage marketplace that arms consumers with insights into costs and fees to help them plan, qualify and shop for a mortgage with multiple lenders, has raised $5 million in a Series...
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