Vol. 75 Nbr. 7, April - April 2015

Index

• New rules of the road.
• CFPB bills introduced in Congress.
• Credit tightness index (Feb. 2013-Feb. 2015).
• iEmergent forecasts higher 2015 origination volume.
• Repeat foreclosures boost January foreclosure starts.
• Poll finds majority still meet in person with lender.
• TD Bank index finds home-buying confidence up.
• National delinquency rate hits lowest level since 3Q 2007.
• SF Bay Area housing markets at or near pre-bubble prices.
• Total loan mods in 2014 reach 489,000.
• Ditech builds out its retail footprint.
• Simon aims to acquire Macerich.
• Freddie Mac: 'Strong' year for multifamily.
• Midtown Manhattan office rents move up.
• CRE prices top 2007 peak.
• Federal reserve: Commercial activity 'stable' or 'improved'.
• San Francisco requires biggest salary to buy a home.
• Band practice.
• Lights, camera, action.
• Long path to paperless.
• Calendar.
• Authors: upclose.
• Alan Hurwitz has been named chief financial officer.
• Christine Schultz has been appointed global chief marketing officer.
• Denise McGlone has been named chief financial officer and Joseph Thomas has been named chief information officer for Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed) in Alexandria, Virginia.
• Edward F. Del Beccaro has been named managing director of Houston-based .
• Erika Lance has been promoted to chief information officer.
• Jeff Tennyson has been named chief operating officer.
• Lisa Widmier has been named executive vice president of CBRE Capital Markets.
• Mark White has been appointed chief executive officer and Barry M. Adams has been appointed chief operating officer for DomiKnow Inc. in Des Moines, Iowa.
• Raj Date has been appointed to the Board of Advisors for Reston, Virginia-based StreetShares Inc.
• Stephen A. Fowle has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer for Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida and Seacoast National Bank in Stuart, Florida.
• Steven D. Barnhart has been appointed senior vice president, chief financial officer, for Bankrate Inc. in New York.
• Susan Monahan has been appointed a director for the Illinois Mortgage Bankers Association (IMBA).
• Anthony M. Sharett has been named a partner in the Litigation Group of BakerHostetler in the Columbus, Ohio, office.
• CJ Meert has been named area sales manager of the Reno, Nevada.
• Corey Hulbert has been appointed head of sales for Dallas-based American Tax & Property Reporting Inc.'s SmartProp[TM].
• Francine Martino has been named branch manager; Paul Raditz has been named sales manager; Dianne Morin, Liz Garcia, Richard Gilbert and Toni Ridzy have been named loan officers; and Eneida Rodriguez has been named production assistant for Scottsdale, Arizona-based imortgage's Boca Raton, Florida, branch.
• Greg Smith has been named assistant vice president of compliance in the Ruston, Louisiana, office of Plano, Texas-based Mortgage Contracting Services LLC (MCS).
• Joanna Bignell has been named vice president of retail recruiting and reverse mortgage for Open Mortgage in Austin, Texas.
• Lisa Stepp has been named correspondent account manager for Platinum Home Mortgage Corporation in Clifton Park, New York.
• William J. Breslin has been elected partner in the Corporate Department and the Asset Management Practice.
• How big is small?
• Preparing for exams.
• Let's work together.
• A lender's duty to investigate.
• The corner office outlook --surprise findings: this latest article in the Corner Office Outlook series finds lots of non-QM lending going on as well as other surprises.
• Restoring lost margins.
• A Texas-size apartment boom.
• Proceed with caution.
• A modernized private MI sector creates new possibilities for policymakers.
• Inside the mind of a top producer--Michael Stallings.
• Effectively managing UDAAP compliance in mortgage servicing.
• Real estate data security in a new age of compliance.
• New study sheds light on valuation of Solar Homes.
• Price watch.
• The closing table.
• Lending trends.
• Home-price spotlight.
• The fraud file.
• The appraisal accuracy index.
• Marketrac[R].
• Loan rate monitor.
• Vital statistics.