Vol. 76 Nbr. 1, October - October 2015

Index

• Correction.
• Supply and demand.
• Borrowers regaining equity at rapid clip.
• Purchase lending climbs in second quarter.
• Credit tightness index (August 2013-August 2015).
• Austin tops overvalued markets list.
• Texas Capital expands into correspondent lending.
• Average credit scores dropping on closed loans.
• Fannie Mae sees better growth in second half.
• Mortgage bankers see market weathering possible rate hikes.
• Commercial/Multifamily Delinquencies continue downward trend in Q2.
• Record pace for small-cap property sales.
• Beige Book: CRE largely positive.
• CRE outperforms as volatility grips stock market.
• Hefty premium for tech-market offices.
• San Diego time.
• Walk softly, no stick--at least not yet.
• Trid brings sweeping changes.
• Calendar.
• Authors: upclose.
• Aman Kothari has been named chief financial officer and Kristine Chin has been named vice president of customer engagement reporting for Auction.com LLC in Irvine, California.
• David Lundin has been named chief underwriter for FHA lending operations and Tom White has been named director in originations for Berkeley Point Capital in Bethesda, Maryland.
• Dennis Hueman has been appointed senior vice president of centralized lending for Santa Ana, California-based Carrington Mortgage Services LLC.
• Holliday Fenoglio Fowler.
• Jamie Korus, CMB, and Jason Madiedo have been named to the board of directors of San Diego-based The Mortgage Collaborative and Arthur Prieston, CMB, has been named to the board of directors of the Management Company of The Mortgage Collaborative.
• Jeffrey Taschler has been named chief operating officer and senior vice president, in the New York office, for Bethesda, Maryland-based Walker & Dunlop Commercial Property Funding.
• Lorie Beers has been named managing director and head of Special Situations, Jeff Knopping has been named managing director and Randy Lederman has been named director of Cowen Group Inc.'s Special Situations Group in New York.
• Melinda Wilner has been promoted to chief operating officer of United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) in Troy, Michigan.
• Nadia Aziz has been appointed chief commercial officer for Optimal Blue in Plano, Texas.
• Robert Cord has been named president; Heidi Becker has been named director of the Southwest, based in San Diego; Ivette Barnett has been named director of the Greater Los Angeles Area, based in the Inland Empire; and ROSS TOLBERT has been named director of operations, based in Sacramento, California, for Salt Lake City-based Coldwell Banker Commercial Advisors' Asset Services Division.
• Scott Kim has been named chief executive officer of New York-based Bankrate Inc.'s Bankrate.com division.
• Allen Price has been named senior vice president of business development for RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing Corporation in Charlotte, North Carolina.
• Arch Williams has been named area manager and Phil Wagner has been named licensed sales manager for the North Carolina locations, including Cary, Raleigh and Wilmington; and Bill Goodwin has been named licensed branch manager in Charlotte, North Carolina, for Atlanta-based Angel Oak Home Loans.
• Becky Flig has been named vice president of capital markets business development for SWBC Lending Solutions in San Antonio, Texas.
• Ben Burkhardt has been named senior communications specialist and Kathryn Butler has been named junior accountant for the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) in Washington, D.C. T.J. Lile has been appointed a director for the Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association (CMLA).
• Brian Knepp has been appointed to the Williamsport, Pennsylvania-based Jersey Shore State Bank board of directors and as treasurer.
• Candace E. Wright has been appointed chair, Timothy J. Curt has been named preparer, David S. Lomax has been named user and Harold L. Monk Jr. has been named practitioner on the Norwalk, Connecticut-based Financial Accounting Foundation's (FAF's) Private Company Council (PCC).
• Elizabeth Kanous has been named supervising attorney and Kathleen G. Conger has been named compliance manager in Rochester Hills, Michigan, and Erin L. Smith has been named associate attorney in Chicago for Rochester Hills-based Potestivo & Associates PC.
• Exchange Bank.
• Lauren C. Bellerjeau has been named partner in the Corporate Department of Morrison & Foerster LLP in Washington, D.C.
• Mortgage Returns Advisory Board.
• Real Estate and Banking Practice Group of Thompson & Knight LLP.
• Wanda Montgomery has been named senior vice president of foreclosure operations for Fay Servicing in Chicago.
• Churchill Mortgage.
• Churchill Mortgage.
• Kathy Eckhart has been named senior loan officer in the Brentwood, Tennessee, office; Edward Cuyler APPLEGATE WILSON has been named loan officer in the Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, branch; Stan Reinford has been named loan officer in the Doylestown ...
• Platinum Home Mortgage Corporation.
• Housing demand by the numbers.
• The demographics of demand.
• Inside the inventory gap.
• Future risk: some helpful data about occupational and employer risk can prevent defaults down the road.
• Blocking and tackling.
• Ocwen's challenge.
• The corner office outlook--8th edition.
• Indecision over disparate impact.
• Push them back, shove them back, way back.
• What makes technology innovative?
• The quandary of GSE reform: as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae continue to churn profits for the Treasury amid global market uncertainty, the calls continue for reforming the model.
• The mixed-use formula is hot.
• Leapfrogging mortgage technology: how legacy systems can skip generations of functionality that neglected the needs of the millennial generation and today's lenders and servicers.
• Will 2016 be the year our industry drives, rather than reacts to, change?
• Making your risk culture a rock in the storm.
• The other side of TRID: preparedness doesn't end at the closing table.
• Inside the mind of a top executive--Rick Floyd.
• Achieving actualization in the residential finance industry.
• Price watch.
• The closing table.
• Lending trends.
• Home-price spotlight.
• The fraud file.
• The appraisal accuracy index.
• Home-equity highlights.
• Marketrac[R].
• Month in review.
• Key economic indicators and interest rates.
• Housing activity.