As foreclosure numbers continue their downward spiral, the data showed that almost half of the nation’s completed foreclosures for the 12-month period ending on April 30, 2016, were locked up in five states, according to CoreLogic. Florida, Michigan, Texas, Ohio, ...
Read More »DS News Webcast: Wednesday 6/15/2016
The nation's foreclosure rate and serious delinquency rate in April both fell to post-crisis lows amid home price appreciation and labor market improvements, according to data released by CoreLogic’s April 2016 National Foreclosure Report released Tuesday. The report found that ...
Read More »DS News Webcast: Monday 6/13/2016
The cost of renting has fallen slightly in the last year among the top 25 largest rental markets, according to a report from Trulia this week. However, affordable listings are on the decline in metros such as Oakland and Orange ...
Read More »DS News Webcast: Friday 6/9/2016
The Fed will release the results of its two annual supervisory stress test exercises later this month—the Dodd-Frank Act Stress Tests on Thursday, June 23, and the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review on Wednesday, June 29. The CCAR will test ...
Read More »DS News Webcast: Thursday 6/9/2016
With the slowing of loan modification activity in the last couple of years, the number of permanent loan modifications offered by the industry since the third quarter of 2007 is essentially equal to the number of liquidations completed during the ...
Read More »Slowing Loan Mods, Liquidations Even Out
The improved credit quality of mortgage loans originated post-crisis has resulted in fewer delinquencies and defaults, which in turn has resulted in a substantial decline in loan modifications industry-wide.
Read More »Firm Solutions, assure360 Form Partnership
Firm Solutions, LLC, has announced a partnership with assure360 in order to expand Firm Solutions’ industry presence.
Read More »DS News Webcast: Wednesday 6/8/2016
Representative Jeb Hensarling, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, on Tuesday morning announced the GOP’s much-anticipated and much-talked about proposed alternative to Dodd-Frank, entitled the Financial CHOICE Act, or Creating Hope and Opportunity for Investors, Consumers, and Entrepreneurs. The Financial CHOICE ...
Read More »DS News Webcast: Tuesday 6/6/2016
Second-lien home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) have experienced year-over-year delinquency rate increases in two of the past six months, the first such increases in nearly four years, according to data released by Black Knight Financial Services on Monday. With a few ...
Read More »Clinton and Sanders to Square Off in California
The two Democratic presidential hopefuls each have separate views on housing policy, and they will each be trying to win one of the states that was most affected by the housing crisis.
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