Mortgage Bankers Association

• MBA: Seasonal Adjustments Erase Actual Mortgage Delinquency Improvements

  By Heather Anderson  |  May 9, 2013

  Mortgage bankers trade group says 1st quarter figures show slight increase in 30-day delinquency rate.

• Drought in Professionals Will Not End Soon

  By David Morrison  |  May 1, 2013

  Credit unions facing a lack of available and affordable mortgage loan professionals should not look for the staffing challenge to ease anytime soon, according to housing finance executives and consultants.

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  Industry Anxieties Wane Over Fannie and Freddie Reform

  By David Morrison  |  February 27, 2013

  Despite what almost everyone agrees is the deep importance of the topic, credit unions have become largely ambivalent about reforming the secondary mortgage market and uncertain about potentially disrupting a system which seems to be working well, according to executives with credit union organizations familiar with the issue.

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  Purchase-Money Lending May Be Ready to Blast Off

  By David Morrison  |  February 6, 2013

  Credit unions may have their best opportunity ever to boost the portion of mortgage loans that actually go to purchase homes as opposed to loans that refinance previous notes.

• Commercial, Multi-Family Mortgages Totaling $119 Billion to Mature in 2013

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  February 4, 2013

  Mortgage Bankers Association says that's 8% of outstanding balance nationally.

• Editor/Publisher's Column: Adjusting to the Realities of a New Year

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  January 9, 2013

  Forget that jobless claims were revised upward, even higher than initial projections. The New Year is a time for optimism. As California CU League Economist Dwight Johnston wrote in his commentary in the Trust for Credit Unions e-newsletter, “This was the fifth year in a row of triple-digit gains on...

• Adjusting to the Realities of a New Year: Editor/Publisher's Column

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  January 3, 2013

  Resolution for 2013: Put some energy into political activity, regardless of which side of an issue you're on.

• Mortgage Forgiveness Tax Law Expires Dec. 31, CUNA Urges Extension

  By Heather Anderson  |  December 17, 2012

  Tax relief law gives break to amounts forgiven by lenders when mortgage is modified or home is list in foreclosure or sold in short sale.

• Agencies Delay Basel III Rules for Banks

  By Heather Anderson  |  November 9, 2012

  Fed, FDIC, Comptroller say comments, concerns influenced decision. No new date announced.

• NAFCU, Mortgage Bankers Oppose Eminent Domain-Forced Mortgage Restructures

  By Heather Anderson  |  September 7, 2012

  FHFA seeking comment on possibility of allowing seizure, sale of residential mortgages.