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CFPB ‘quietly’ affirms support for HUD counselors partnering with mortgage originators

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Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-approved counselors can use fee for pre-purchase counseling and homeownership education services. The change was confirmed through a LinkedIn post by HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing Counseling David Berenbaum. “The This list is provided for ease of reference.

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How to negotiate your home purchase offer

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Get pre-approved to show you mean business: Consider obtaining a pre-approval for a mortgage from a lender by the time you reach the offer stage, as this document can play a key role in the negotiation process. According to industry experts, there is more to a home offer than just the price you are willing to pay.

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Services provider Adfitech rebrands as Mortgage Connect Risk Solutions

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Mortgage Connect Risk Solutions is approved by each of the major credit-rating agencies. Its suite of services includes mortgage QC, due diligence and fulfillment; pre-funding and servicing QC; and new registrations and transfers to the Mortgage Electronic Registry System ( MERS ).

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Mortgage infrastructure platform Pylon raises $8.5M in seed round

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million in its seed round to build a mortgage-as-a-service platform for fintechs, banks and retail banks. The built-in underwriting logic aims to deliver quick and accurate decisions to borrowers with maximum affordability approvals and automated tasking. Startup Pylon raised $8.5

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Ex-Zillow execs promise revolution in lending

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To provide that competitive edge, Tomo claims to issue mortgage pre-approvals within hours – not days – and cut closing times to 21 days (the industry average is 47 days). Tomo would also have to overtake traditional banks and tech-focused firms like Better.com, which is also venture-capital-backed and says it will be worth $7.7

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Warehouse lenders stung by FGMC’s bankruptcy

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Bankruptcy Court in Delaware — show the lender owes more than $400 million to four warehouse lenders, which include Customers Bank, Flagstar Bank, Texas Capital Bank and J.V.B. Obligations to Customers Bank are further secured by a cash reserve account and related collateral,” Samples court pleadings add.

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Mortgage demand gets a boost as rates decline for three straight weeks

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And, following investors’ rush into bonds after the recent bank failures earlier this month, yields moved even lower last week — and mortgage rates followed. Arias said his pre-approval applications for March are in line with January’s numbers — but he hasn’t seen the busy spring buying season that everyone had hoped for. “It

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