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.