Residential Underwriting: Are Standards Easing?
A recent article in the online MReport Daily (“Underwriting Standards Ease as Banks Vie for Business”) repeats the same information I’ve been reading on many
A recent article in the online MReport Daily (“Underwriting Standards Ease as Banks Vie for Business”) repeats the same information I’ve been reading on many
On January 28, 2014, Sergio Ermotti, chief executive of UBS AG, was fed up. While visiting swanky Davos Switzerland [referred to in a New York Magazine article
“Ocwen, Ocwen, Ocwen.” What a peculiar sounding name for a large company! Does it have some noble Greek meaning? Or perhaps a venerated Roman god
OK, the numbers are in for calendar year 2013. In 3Q 2012, for the first time in five years, housing prices actually began to improve,
For those folks experiencing, or about to experience, a “1099 event” resulting from a short sale, deed-in-lieu-of-foreclosure or foreclosure in 2014, these are harrowing times.
It’s a New Year! Time to look back from whence we came, and look forward to 2014. ~PCQ From Infant to Toddler. The Q-Law website site
The RMLS™ Market Action Report was just released for the month of November, 2013. In almost every metric, the trend lines look good. However, Inventory
The National Flood Insurance Program (“the Program”) was created by Congress in 1968 to mitigate the financial impact of floods on residents and communities. It
Introduction. Sellers and buyers of residential property are frequently confused over what type of deed they should use in making a conveyance as a “grantor,”
Today we are seeing more seller carry-back real estate transactions. These are the transactions in which, for various reasons [usually having to do with the