Vol. 75 Nbr. 11, August 2015

Index

• Any way you look at it.
• Foreclosure numbers show major progress.
• Credit tightness index (June 2013-June 2015).
• NY governor signs agreement with servicers.
• Advisory group named for common securitization platform.
• Boomerang buyers poised to re-enter housing market.
• Business barometer.
• Mortgage builder unveils updated LOS for TRID.
• Vendors release TRID-ready tools and solutions.
• Ten states and D.C. hit new price peaks.
• Home prices post mostly strong gains in April.
• Northern Virginia home sales jump 17 percent in June.
• General public still pessimistic about housing.
• Sellers say it's a good time to sell.
• The Money Source signs contract for MSP platform.
• Fitch: hotel loan underwriting lending, unbroken'.
• Reis: suburbs lead office space demand.
• Mortgage REITs becoming bigger competitors.
• STNL cap rates see record lows.
• Feds still eyeing 'other persons'.
• An Apple Alum talks TRID and more.
• Calendar.
• Authors: upclose.
• Alicia Payne Roundy has been promoted to associate vice president of digital marketing strategies.
• Irvine, California-based Plutos Sama LLC has acquired The Fisher Law Group PLLC, and Jeffrey Fisher will remain with the firm and serve as executive vice president of business development of the combined entities.
• Jason R. Adams has been named partner, Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice group.
• John Altier and Andrew Javorsky have been appointed managing directors for Cantor Fitzgerald in New York.
• Kevin Blair has been appointed corporate treasurer for SunTrust Banks Inc. in Atlanta.
• LendingTree Inc.
• Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's).
• Nicole Mitchell has been named director and Antonia Hass has been named analyst, based in London; SHAWN LESE has been named head of business development, North America, based in New York; and Carsten Kebbedies has been named head of business development, Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore, for TH Real Estate, TIAA-CREF's London-based subsidiary.
• Peter Hirsch has been named executive vice president of technology and operations for Ellie Mae in Pleasanton, California.
• PrimeSource Mortgage Inc.
• Rebecca E. Kuehn has been named partner in Hudson Cook LLP's Washington, D.C., office.
• Alan Fishman, Catherine Keating and Richard Spillenkothen have been named independent directors.
• Chris Hew has been named vice president in the Mid-Atlantic Markets team for Walker & Dunlop Inc. in Bethesda, Maryland.
• Edward Komski has been named national sales manager for DocMagic Inc. in Torrance, California.
• Karen Blasing and Rajat Taneja have been appointed to Pleasanton, California-based Ellie Mae's board of directors.
• Marc Suarez has been promoted to director, based in Miami.
• Michael Caputo has been named vice president-market production manager, based in Savannah, Georgia, for Atlanta-based BankSouth Mortgage.
• Milan Kosanovich and Karen Kennedy page have been named vice presidents, national account managers; and Jimmy Mcgurk and Tracy Whipple have been promoted to vice presidents, national account managers, for National Mortgage Insurance Corporation in Emeryville, California.
• Nicholas Costa has been promoted to assistant vice president, national account manager, and David Shrewsbury has been appointed senior account manager for Philadelphia-based Radian.
• Remembrance.
• Wendell Willkie has been named visiting fellow in economic policy studies for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C. Sandra Braunstein has been named consultant and strategic adviser for Minneapolis-based Wolters Kluwer Financial Services.
• Preserving neighborhoods.
• Ruling parties: proposed new bankruptcy rules are still being debated.
• Looking beyond credit scores.
• CFPB in 2015.
• Express yourself.
• Branding 101.
• Then and now.
• Remediation, stabilization, transformation.
• The mortgage self-service model.
• Embrace new opportunities: how banks and mortgage companies can leverage strategic alliances to expand their mortgage lending business.
• HMDA: new data requirements, new opportunities for risk.
• Yes! That is a third party--now what?
• Inside the mind of a top producer--Dennis Duncan.
• Improving customer service for commercial real estate borrowers.
• Price watch.
• The closing table.
• Lending trends.
• Home-price spotlight.
• The fraud file.
• The appraisal accuracy index.
• Home-equity highlights.
• Marketrac[R].
• Loan rate monitor.
• Vital statistics.
• W.R. Starkey Mortgage picks Black Knight's Empower LOS.