Vol. 76 Nbr. 8, May 2016

Index

• Pretty much plain vanilla.
• Credit tightness index: (March 2014-March 2016).
• FHFA finally approves principal reduction.
• Wells finalizes $1.2 billion settlement.
• Business barometer.
• Ellie Mae finds average days to close dropping.
• Portland market tops list for price gains.
• Average gain netted by home sellers highest since 2007.
• Suburbs still preferred by majority or first-time buyers.
• National home prices up 6.8 percent in February.
• Survey finds banks having more trouble with TRID.
• First American Mortgage Solutions buys Forsythe Appraisals.
• Non-foreclosure help outpaces foreclosure sales in February.
• Genworth announces exclusive partnership with Roostify.
• Platinum Data launches RealView QB for appraisal quality control.
• Two new customers choose PathSoftware.
• Apartment vacancies--and rents--grow.
• CMBS delinquency rate reverses course.
• Demand for U.S. retail space improves.
• Office market cools slightly.
• SoCal faces higher apartment demand.
• Transaction volume expected to decline.
• HUD launches manufactured-housing dispute-resolution program.
• These things take time.
• Who writes this stuff?
• Quicken premieres the push-button mortgage.
• ComplianceEase launches ClosingXchange for TRID compliance.
• Calendar.
• Aaron Cunningham has been promoted to senior vice president/chief credit officer for Penns Woods Bancorp Inc. in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
• Brent Adams has been named president of the Private Bank of Buckhead's Private Bank of Decatur division in Decatur, Georgia.
• Cody P. Peterson has been named of counsel in the Commercial Litigation practice in the Dallas office.
• David Kittle, CMB, has been appointed senior vice president of government and industry relations for Burlingame, California-based ComplianceEase.
• Gary Kain has been elected chief executive officer and Alvin N. Puryear has been elected as the board of directors' non-executive chair.
• Gordon F. Peery has been named partner and chair of the Derivatives practice as well as a member of the Real Estate practice in the Los Angeles office.
• John Caley has been named senior managing director for capital markets for Gemini Rosemont Commercial Real Estate in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• Mary Arman has been named chief title officer for Entrust Enterprises in Knoxville, Tennessee.
• Steve Stein has been named head of consumer lending for Ditech Financial LLC in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.
• William Kooper has been promoted to vice president of state government affairs and industry relations; Sarah Singhas has been promoted to assistant director, public policy; and James Hudson has been named business application developer for the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) in Washington.
• Amir Kirkwood has been named first vice president for business development for Amalgamated Bank in New York.
• Amy Gargala has been named customer care specialist.
• Fran Weichsel has been promoted to senior vice president of operations and client services.
• John Short has been named vice president of business development for the reseller channel for LERETA in Covina, California.
• Kristin Henke has been named senior director of operations for ClosingCorp in San Diego.
• Kyle Eddy has been named senior vice president, consumer direct, for Primary Capital Mortgage in Atlanta.
• Terri L. Miller has been named senior portfolio manager for National Asset Services (NAS) in Los Angeles.
• An untapped market.
• The downside of an illiquid market.
• Q&A with Congressman Ed Royce.
• The profit squeeze.
• The millennial mindset.
• The corner office outlook--9th edition: a potpourri.
• A compliance boost from big data.
• Hotel market sets records.
• What it will take to move the secondary market from here to the future.
• Private-label MBS in 'The Waiting Place'.
• The operational challenge of regulation AB II.
• Inside the mind of a top producer--Brian Johnson.
• Appraisal matters: successfully riding the regulatory wave.
• Price watch.
• The closing table.
• Top origination markets by loan volume.
• States ranked worst to best by foreclosure rate.
• Employment/income fraud risk index for February 2016--top 5 MSAs.
• Mortgage fraud risk index for February 2016--top 5 MSAs.
• 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.