Vol. 75 Nbr. 8, May - May 2015

Index

• Correction.
• Not much going on.
• Rate volatility looms over market.
• CFPB cracks down again on deceptive advertising.
• Credit Tightness Index (March 2013-March 2015).
• Business barometer.
• Freddie Mac lowers growth outlook for 2015.
• Pool of refi candidates grows by 3 million in February.
• California MBA celebrates 60th anniversary.
• Six states reach new home-price peaks in February.
• Waterstone Mortgage adds branches in Virginia and Florida.
• Ocwen and SunTrust report on relief provided under attorney general settlement.
• Eustis Mortgage forms division to tap Texas market.
• FHFA issues 4Q 2014 foreclosure-prevention report.
• Appraisers get tool to counter scrutiny from Collateral Underwriter.
• Two in three millennial unaware of closing costs.
• Fannie Mae finds home-buying sentiment sours in March.
• Mortgages more affordable than rents in 76 percent of markets.
• New cooperative formed for residential property investors.
• Lenders evolve to meet growing SFR demand.
• MBA: commercial/multifamily originations rose to $400 billion in 2014.
• Single-family rental: challenges operating 'horizontal multifamily'.
• Sizing the single-family rental market.
• Lending recovery enters year six.
• MBA releases Q4 2014 C/MF Quarterly DataBook.
• Office sector improvement continues.
• Native New Yorker.
• Between a rock and a hard place: a recent hearing on Capitol Hill shows exactly what kind of political dilemma the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finds itself caught in.
• Competition heats up in online home listings.
• Calendar.
• Authors upclose.
• Ben Truitt has been appointed director of FHA in the Denver office and Ana Ramos has been appointed vice president in the Manhattan Beach, California, office of Uniondale, New York-based Arbor Commercial Mortgage LLC.
• Bradley Padratzik has been named director of member engagement for the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) in Washington, D.C.
• Cathleen Schreiner Gates has been promoted to executive vice president of sales and marketing, and Joseph Tyrrell has been promoted to executive vice president of corporate strategy for Ellie Mae in Pleasanton, California.
• Ed Golding has been named principal deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
• Erin Sheckler has been named president of NexTitle in Bellevue, Washington.
• Jason Dickson has been promoted to Texas regional manager while maintaining his current position as manager for the Dallas branch of Brentwood, Tennessee-based Churchill Mortgage.
• Jerry Alred has been appointed president and MYLENA ALRED has been appointed senior vice president for New Orleans-based Eustis Mortgage Corporation's new division, dba Finance Home America, in Houston.
• Richard E. Konzmann has been appointed executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer for Arlington Asset Investment Corporation in Arlington, Virginia.
• Susan King has been named regional vice president of the West region and Amy Butler has been named regional vice president of the Heartland region for Greensboro, North Carolina-based United Guaranty Corporation.
• The Mortgage Collaborative.
• Tony Sachs has been named chief lending officer for Sindeo in San Francisco.
• Daniel Gardner has been named single-family vice president of affordable lending and access to credit for Freddie Mac in McLean, Virginia.
• Jeffrey Geisinger has been appointed national strategic sales director, Amy Holder has been appointed New Jersey sales director and James Sandifer has been appointed vice president of regional operations for the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of RedVision in Parsippany, New Jersey.
• Joe Gyourko, Brian S. Schneider and Frank L. Sullivan Jr. have been named to the Advisory Board of New York-based CenterSquare Investment Management.
• Matthew Ostrander has been named a member of the Independent Mortgage Bankers Advisory Board (IMBAB), created by Freddie Mac and the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).
• Neil Abraham has been named senior vice president, investments, for Realty Income Corporation in San Diego.
• Remembrance.
• Thomas M. Cohen and John J. Schorgl have been named senior directors in the Kansas City office of Calabasas, California-based Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation (MMCC).
• Cassandra Kennedy and Nancy Evanow have been named disclosure desk analysts.
• Darren Chamblee has been named branch manager of the Frederick, Maryland, office.
• Frank Cerney has been named project manager for Rekon Technologies in Pasadena, California.
• Michael J. Bresnick has been named a partner and chair of the Financial Services Investigations and Enforcement practice of Venable LLP in Washington, D.C.
• Tim O'Neal has been named vice president of operations, David Perkins has been named technology architecture and product operations manager, and Ron Potter has been named product operations manager for ReverseVision in San Diego.
• Tracy Whipple has been named national account director, based in Northern California; Donna Varnell has been named account manager, based in Scottsdale, Arizona; and Kai Hopton has been named account manager, based in Los Angeles, for Emeryville, California-based National Mortgage Insurance Corporation (National MI).
• A total RMBS reboot.
• Inaccessible credit: the new normal?
• Skin in the game.
• Refi drama.
• The corner office outlook--the secondary market.
• Five business opportunities you can't ignore.
• Is your LOS mitigating or facilitating risk?
• The future of retail.
• The risk of 'comfortable inaction'.
• The unknown upside of updated GSE reps and warrants.
• Rising percentage of borrowers unemployed within three days of closing.
• Inside the mind of a top producer--Wade Betz.
• Today's secondary market collateral due-diligence practices.
• Price watch.
• The closing table.
• Top origination markets by loan volume.
• States ranked worst to best by foreclosure rate.
• The fraud file.
• The appraisal accuracy index.
• Home-equity highlights.
• Markets with highest share of distressed sales.
• Month in review.
• Key economic indicators and interest rates.
• Housing activity: residential structures.