| Content Category: Required Reading |
| MBA's Attack Plan For The Return Of Private Capital To The Mortgage Industry |
on 20 May 2013 by MortgageOrb.com   |
| The government's involvement in the mortgage market has ballooned to unhealthy proportions, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). So what can the Federal Housing [read more] |
| Ally Just About Ready To Kiss Mortgage Banking Goodbye |
| on 15 May 2013 by MortgageOrb.com |
| Ally Financial Inc. has entered into agreements with the Residential Capital LLC (ResCap) estate and its major creditors to support a Chapter 11 plan in [read more] |
| MBA: 'We Need These Three Things From Washington' |
| on 07 May 2013 by Michael Bates |
| Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) CEO David H. Stevens addressed his colleagues this week during the MBA's National Secondary Market Conference & Expo, calling on lawmakers [read more] |
| A Legislative Lobbying Primer |
| on 07 May 2013 by Phil Hall |
| It is easy to get turned off on politics, especially in view of the strident nature of recent political campaigns and the partisan intransigence that [read more] |
| Busy Week In The Mortgage Fraud Universe |
| on 03 May 2013 by MortgageOrb.com |
| Mortgage fraud took center stage this week in several corners of the U.S., led by a 12-year federal prison sentence for a Chicago man who [read more] |
| Watt Is Obama's Pick To Lead The FHFA |
| on 02 May 2013 by Michael Bates |
| President Obama has announced his new man for the role of Federal Housing Finance Authority (FHFA) director: U.S. Rep. Melvin Watt from North Carolina, a [read more] |
| CoreLogic: Year-Over-Year Foreclosure Inventory Numbers Down Substantially |
| on 01 May 2013 by MortgageOrb.com |
| According to CoreLogic's March National Foreclosure Report, there were 55,000 completed foreclosures in the U.S. in March 2013, down from 66,000 in March 2012: a [read more] |
| Cutting Off The Hand To Spite The ARM? |
| on 26 Apr 2013 by Nick Volpe |
| REQUIRED READING: Sometimes rules that are made with the best of intentions end up creating more problems than solutions. A case in point: the addition [read more] |
| The Top 10 Valuation Best Practices |
| on 24 Apr 2013 by Roger Beane |
| REQUIRED READING: Mortgage valuations are an exercise in judgment and definitely not something that can be defined in absolute terms. While the exercise of determining [read more] |
| The Single-Family Rental Asset Class: An Emerging Opportunity For Servicers |
| on 18 Apr 2013 by Walter "Wally" Charnoff |
| REQUIRED READING: The vast majority of families that are somewhere between initial default and foreclosure would prefer to stay in a single-family home rather than [read more] |
