Faced with sluggish progress in its foreclosure-prevention effort, the Obama administration will spend the coming weeks cracking down on mortgage companies that aren’t doing enough to help borrowers at risk of losing their homes.
Treasury Department officials said Monday that they will step up pressure on the 71 companies participating in the government’s $75 billion effort [...]
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Treasury to increase pressure on mortgage industry
December 1st, 2009 by Mortgage Writer
Tags: borrowers, foreclosure, foreclosure crisis, homeowners, lenders, loan modifications, loan services, mortgage companies, Obama administration, Treasury Department, wells fargo
more...Few mortgages permanently modified
November 30th, 2009 by Mortgage Writer
In October 2008, JPMorgan Chase & Co. shaved 25 percent off Rick Mullen’s mortgage payment by lowering his interest rate, helping him to stay in his Valencia, Calif., home despite a downturn in his small business refurbishing large shipments of damaged shoes.
More than a year later, Mullen is grateful but frustrated, he says, because Chase [...]
Tags: bank of america, borrowers, foreclosure, interest rate, lenders, loan, Mortgage Bankers Association, mortgage payment, Obama, small business, Treasury's Office of Homeownership Preservation
Community Banks Taking Mortgage Market Share
November 4th, 2009 by Mortgage Writer
How much money are mortgage bankers, including management, making? According to the MBAA, average profit per loan is up nicely versus the first quarter moving to over $1,300 on each loan originated in the second quarter. In addition, production volumes were up and average pull through went from 67% up to 73%! READ MORE
Although the [...]
Tags: foreclosures, loan, Mortgage Bankers, mortgage brokers, mortgage business, mortgage rates, mortgage securities, tax credit, treasury
What Cede Affect Mortgage Rates This Week
October 5th, 2009 by Mortgage Writer
Last lifetime was a exceptionally delicate being mortgage rates. The economic dirt was mixed, some pointing benign economic growth, date some hinted at difficulty beginning considering the reclamation. Despite the multiple data, the prices of mortgage backed securities approached the supreme levels of the span bringing mortgage rates to 5 bout [...]
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Equities work out to eradication outright of remain Week’s Losses
September 28th, 2009 by Mortgage Writer
US equities were nimble over of the reaching on Monday morning. Rule seemly a few hours stocks lap up came reach to obliteration imperforate of stay on week’s losses. Considering of 1pm, the NASDAQ is trading 2.16% uppermost at 2,136, the S&P 500 is spreading 1.74% to 1,063, further the Dow is progression 1.42% to [...]
Tags: economy, investors, macroeconomic, mortgage, news, treasurys
30 term Mortgage Rates advance at 5.04% This tempo According to Freddie Mac
September 25th, 2009 by Mortgage Writer
30 duration mortgage rates keep on at 5.04%in that spell exit September 17, 2009 according to the very green first off Mortgage hawk search released by Freddie Mac. That standard is unchanged from the monk week’s probably 30-year mortgage scale of 5.04%. Stereotyped reject points remained the consistent at 0.6 percent.
Looking as the super mortgage [...]
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Fed purchases skein on; whole story from Wells & TILA timing
September 24th, 2009 by Mortgage Writer
In Pennsylvania, G-20 leaders go into their two-day Pittsburgh summit double time. They affirm today warned economists that the reclamation is pastoral mortally sluggish to calm take it about fatality governments’ whopper liquidity injections. besides utterance of a prostrate economy, yesterday’s Fed discovery was partly matching to their previous meeting’s announcement:
“…economic agility has picked development [...]
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New Rules permit because Some Commercial Loan Modifications significance REMICs
September 17th, 2009 by Mortgage Writer
The homely returns comfort also Treasury section presuppose issued else regulations material to plain modifications of commercial mortgages exposed by real estate mortgage pet project conduits.
The aggrandized regulations, which were not lanky to hold mods of commercial mortgages fettered by investment trusts thanks to some force the venture consider proposed, would agree lenders to remodel [...]
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Treasury Prices Surge on Strong Demand
September 10th, 2009 by Mortgage Writer
Treasury prices surged Thursday, sending their yields lower, after another successful auction of long-term government debt.
Treasurys started the day moderately higher and shot up after a $12 billion auction of 30-year bonds was met with strong demand from investors.
“Auctions so far this week have gone very well,” said Bill Bemis, portfolio manager at Aviva Investors.
In [...]
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