OTTAWA, March 3, 2015 /CNW/ – March is Fraud Prevention Month and the Appraisal Institute of Canada (AIC) would like to remind Canadian consumers, lenders, mortgage brokers, lawyers, appraisers and anyone else relying on an appraisal, to be diligent about potential valuation fraud that may occur during the mortgage financing process. Valuation fraud is the misrepresentation of an appraisal …
Mortech®, a Zillow® business providing mortgage technology software solutions for mortgage bankers and secondary market teams, has integrated United Guaranty’s real time mortgage insurance quotes into Marksman, the company’s flagship marketing and product and pricing engine .
Hunt Mortgage Group, a commercial real estate lender, announced today that it has financed seven affordable housing projects with FHA/HUD loan facilities. The total Hunt investment is $102 million and …
Mortgage servicer Ocwen Financial Corp said it would sell residential mortgage servicing rights on $45 billion of Fannie Mae loans to an undisclosed buyer, sending its shares up 5.5 percent in extended trading. The announcement comes a week after Ocwen said it would sell servicing rights on $9.8 billion of loans backed by Freddie Mac to Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc, as part of a strategy to …
ETFs focused on mortgage-backed securities, or MBS, offer an opportunity to further diversify the fixed-income portion of your portfolio.
The Lenders One Mortgage Cooperative, a national alliance of community mortgage bankers, correspondent lenders and suppliers of mortgage products and services, today announced it has become the National Founding Partner of the Minneapolis-based Spare Key with a $25,000 donation to assist Spare Key in its efforts to serve families in need.
David Cameron says that says that keeping mortgage rates low will help families feel 'financially secure'
Buying shares is a better investment than paying off your mortgage. Here's why.
WASHINGTON DC — via PRWEB – Can't live with them, can't live without them. That sums up the sentiment of leading mortgage and housing industry professionals when it comes to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, …
Today's lowest mortgage rates and fees go to borrowers with credit scores of 740 or higher. This is a change from a few years ago, when a 720 credit score was good enough to merit the best deals. The fees are higher for borrowers with credit scores of 700 to 719, and they continue to kick higher for every 20-point drop. “What used to be great is now only good,” says mortgage broker Todd Huettner …