Dec. 29: Lender wildfire disaster updates; population demographics influencing residential lending
Age, population trends, and gender do matter in the home buying process. There, I said it. Someone in their early 20s probably can’t afford a […]
Month: December 2017
Dec. 28: Correspondent bus. opportunity; new MBS buyer; FHA, VA, PACE, Ginnie updates; RBS California settlement
For further evidence of the uneven recovery among U.S. housing markets, how’s this: In the 10 most expensive U.S. metropolitan areas, median home values have […]
Dec. 27: Advice for new folks in the biz; a sampling of vendor news, including a site that lists vendors
Private education pays well. There were 58 people making over $1,000,000 per year in total compensation as the presidents of private, non-profit colleges in 2015, […]
Dec. 26: Lender expansion & contraction; FHA, lenders, & investors continue HMDA changes; HMDA humor
Congrats to The Money Source. It is on a major hiring spree to build an in-house ad agency in the greater Detroit area. The marketing […]
Dec. 22: LO & sales jobs, document collection product; BRAWL opinion; CFPB’s good HMDA news; F&F capital buffer
Japan’s birth rate is so low that soon more adult diapers will be sold than baby diapers! There’s even an age-related joke today. Speaking of […]
Dec. 21: Controller, LO and AE jobs; tax update, PACE changes, 4506-T news; tax bill hitting rates
Welcome to the Winter Solstice (yes, more sunlight ahead of us in the Northern Hemisphere!). Things are slowing down ahead of Christmas, shipping and post-closing […]
Dec. 20: LO jobs, new products; politics & the tax bill’s impact on Fannie & Freddie; inflation & housing in the news
“Look, if a man says he will fix it, he will. There’s no need to remind him every six months.” Humor aside, it seems that […]
Dec. 19: LO jobs; new products for LOs; M&A; events & webinars; borrower satisfaction survey; 2-yr. hits 9 year-high
Demographics and politics make interesting bedfellows. There are eight senators who are at least 80-years-old, nearly twice as many as ever before. Toward the other […]
Dec. 18: LO & AE jobs, team looking for home; new products; the tax plan’s reality for homeowners & small businesses
We start the week with something pertaining to words and the internet, both near and dear to all of us. Here’s the New Yorker’s cartoon […]
Dec. 16: BRAWL primer, things to think about, and how to think about the value of servicing
Lover’s spat or Thrilla in Manila? BRAWL (Brokers rallying against Whole-tail lending) is grabbing attention, but is the viewpoint intelligence or ignorance, or somewhere in […]