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- Mortgages: What It Takes to Get One Today
- Apply for a mortgage these days, and you'll quickly discover that lenders' attention to creditworthiness is drastically different from what it was two years ago. ...
- Articles 2009-07-07
- Can You Get Credit Now?
- Yes, lenders are starting to loosen up. But apply for a mortgage, refinancing, home-equity credit line, car loan, or credit card, and you'll quickly learn that the credit crunch isn't over.It's no secret that the Obama administration, the Fed, and Congress would love nothing more than to see banks start...
- Articles 2009-07-07
- We Need Less Regulation, Not More
- Justin, the problem with saying that 'some' regulation is good is that it is very ambiguous, because in today's regulated environment, it could mean doubling, or halving, the number of regulations and bureaucrats meddling in finance. I'm more on the halving side. I...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Happy Anniversary
- One year ago, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over by Uncle Sam and thrown into conservatorship - kind of like bankruptcy for big companies that are too big to fail, I suppose. The stocks of both companies still trade on the big board, although for nothing more than...
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- FHA Is Broke. Now What?
- This morning, the Washington Post reported that the Federal Housing Administration has been hit so hard by mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures, that the FHA would officially drop below the cash reserve level required by Congress. The problem is two-fold: Congress requires FHA to keep 2 percent of all...
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Uncle Sam's Not-so-Graceful Exit from Real Estate
- Ben Bernanke and company meet today to further advance the process of winding down various financial rescue packages. The Feds should be cheered that the Treasury quietly closed its guarantee program for money funds last week and the world did not end. That is, unless Armageddon has just been postponed...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Is The U.S. Housing Market Ready To Stand On Its Own?
- Is the U.S. housing market ready to stand on its own? Let's see: According to its latest monthly survey, John Burns Real Estate Consulting reports that 59 percent of new home buyers rely on low-down payment government-backed mortgages, including FHA, VA, or USDA financing with 96.5 to...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
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- FDIC, FHA, Fannie and Freddie Real Estate Exposure Killing Home Values in Georgia
- The FDIC held a big auction this week of properties they own outside of Atlanta Ga. JP King conducted the auction. The FDIC put up 187 properties for sale. The results have not been released yet. I suspect that it might be an interesting story when the numbers do come...
- External links 2009-10-31
- How to Buy HUD-FHA Properties - Facts about the Process
- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD was established in 1968. It was originally developed to manage federal housing and community development programs. HUD incorporated numerous housing agencies and assumed administrative responsibility for them. One of these agencies was the Federal Housing Administration FHA. Since 1971 the agency...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Framework integrates LendWare with FHA Connect
- TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK -- BASED FRAMEwork Inc. has integrated its LendWare[TM] credit fulfillment system with FHA Connect Business-to-Business (FHAC B2B), an XML-based specification from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD. The Federal Housing Administration FHA developed the FHAC B2B to provide FHA-approved lenders with a streamlined...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- Senate passes FHA reform bill
- Legislative reform of the Federal Housing Administration FHA took a giant step toward becoming law in December as the Senate overwhelmingly passed an FHA modernization bill. On Dec. 14, the Senate, by a bipartisan 93-1 vote, approved the FHA Modernization Act of 2007 (S. 2338), which would, among other...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- New BasePoint FraudMark® FHA Solution Responds to Dramatic Spike in FHA Mortgage Loan Fraud
- New Fraud Detection Technology Designed to Help Lenders and FHA Stop an Estimated $7.5 Billion in Fraudulent FHA Loans in 2009 CARLSBAD, Calif. -- BasePoint...
- Research articles 2009-04-13
- Pacific Mercantile Obtains Approval as Title II FHA Lender to Originate FHA Single Family Mortgage Loans
- COSTA MESA, Calif. -- (NASDAQ: PMBC) Raymond E. Dellerba, President and CEO of Pacific Mercantile Bancorp and of its wholly-owned banking subsidiary, Pacific Mercantile Bank, announced today that the...
- Research articles 2009-04-18
- Primary Residential Mortgage Helps Homeowners' ARM Resets Through FHA Loan Program
- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently released statistics corroborating the success of the FHA Secure program. Industry wide, approximately 33,000 borrowers have already refinanced their home through FHA Secure, which was announced in late September. Primary Residential Mortgage, Inc. PRMI has encouraged company-wide use of FHA loans,...
- Research articles 2007-12-04
- Second Senate FHA bill filed; House bill clears committee
- A second bill aimed at improving the FHA's ability to assist home-buyers was introduced in the Senate at the end of May, while the House's effort at FHA modernization has cleared committee. Introduced by Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-New York), the 21st Century Housing Act (S. 3173) would revise the...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Renaissance time for the FHA: the Congress is expected to finalize work on new FHA modernization legislation early in 2008. That would give the program a big boost just when the market needs one
- Since putting pen to paper for Mortgage Banking in 2006 ("FHA Means Business--and Opportunity," October 2006), the mortgage world as we knew it has changed. With the housing market turned upside-down, product has been chasing liquidity amidst a severe credit crunch. And overnight, the Federal Housing Administration FHA has seen...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- Congress, administration each propose FHA mortgage relief
- The Mortgage Bankers Association MBA is urging action on reform of the Federal Housing Administration FHA even as the Bush administration and congressional Democrats push their own FHA homeownership-relief proposals. While MBA supports FHA reform and supports having it happen sooner rather than later, MBA Chairman-Elect David G. Kittle,...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Talking FHA with commissioner Montgomery: FHA's top official discusses the need for Congress to enact FHA modernization legislation, the surge in FHASecure refinancings, higher loan limits and the ins and outs of the RESPA proposed rule
- Brain D. Montgomery has served as assistant secretary for housing-federal housing commissioner since 2005. As head of the Federal Housing Administration FHA, he oversees the nearly $400 billion FHA insurance portfolio. He also oversees the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) regulatory responsibilities in the areas of the Real...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- The FHA: D.C.'s Other Troubled Lender
- FHA Director David Stevens came out last week with a statement that their 2% minimum capital rule will be broached this fall. Mr. Stevens swore that this was not going to be a problem and no federal bailout was going to be required. He came forward with a list of...
- External links 2009-09-20
- FHA Running Through Money?
- More mortgage mess? A report by David Streitfeld and Louise Story in yesterday's New York Times raised the spectre that the Federal Housing Administration, which is helping to insure liquidity in the bottom end of the mortgage market, is facing a large number of troublesome defaults. The...
- Blog posts 2009-10-10
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