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Although home prices have been rising steadily (up more than 10 percent last year) owners’ confidence in the value of their homes plunged in December, with only 53 percent of… Read More »
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UNKIND CUTS
New York Gov. Mario Cuomo has proposed legislation that would allow the state Department of Financial Services to slash title insurance premiums by 20 percent for home purchases and by… Read More »
“I see it in you. I see the fire….I see you with a baseball bat walking around the hall.” ─ Jon Stewart, interviewing CFPB director Richard Cordray on “The Daily… Read More »
“To advocates, eminent domain offers perhaps the only chance to remedy the failure of the federal government and mortgage servicers to offer widespread, meaningful relief to the hardest-hit communities.” ─… Read More »
“A lender’s internal workflow and processes need to be right, but it is equally as important for a lender’s third-party vendors to have their internal workflow and processes correct as… Read More »
“Under the new CFPB rules, about half the prospective homeowners in this country can’t get a mortgage from a bank because the new laws have greatly restricted credit access.” ─… Read More »
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An estimated 47 percent of bank-owned homes nationwide are still occupied by the previous owner who was foreclosed on. Source: RealtyTrac
Only 380,000 new households were created over the past 12 months compared with an historic average of 1.1 million new households annually. Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Of the 1.25 million homeowners whose trouble mortgages have been modified under the Treasury Department’s HAMP program, 27 percent have re-defaulted on their loans. Source: Treasury Department Report