Mortgage Industry News
Real Estate: Is It Better to Buy or Rent Your Home?
Source: The Street --- The answer isn't always simple and the current housing market has made the question one worth revisiting for many potential home-buyers. For the vast majority of Americans, a home stands as the largest purchase you will ever make. That's scary...
Wells Fargo Plans Major Retreat From Mortgage Business It Long Dominated
Source: Bloomberg --- Wells Fargo & Co. plans to shrink its vast mortgage empire, which once churned out one of every three home loans in the US and for a time made the bank the most valuable in the nation. No longer committed to ranking No. 1 in the business,...
How does the FHFA 7% loan cap on GSEs affect originators?
Source: Housing Wire --- As you probably know by now, the Federal Housing and Finance Agency has limited GSEs to a 7% cap on loan purchases for second home and investment properties. This means that lenders who sell these types of loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
How appraisers value homes in a hot housing market
Source: Housing Wire --- Robin Sheridan, a real-estate broker with Compass Washington, recently listed a three-bedroom home in Seattle for $795,000. The 76-year-old brick home had what Sheridan considered a “funky layout,” with two rooms added to the back that didn’t...
Volume-hungry mortgage lenders loosen credit standards
Source: Housing Wire --- Mortgage credit availability increased by 2.2% in April as mortgage lenders fight for borrowers in an increasingly competitive market. The Mortgage Bankers Association said Tuesday that the Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) — which...
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