Mortgage Bankers Post Huge Profits... Again
Independent mortgage lenders may have hit their high point of the year as they booked an average profit of nearly $1,400 on each loan originated durin...
Independent mortgage lenders may have hit their high point of the year as they booked an average profit of nearly $1,400 on each loan originated durin...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business
Never ones to let an opportunity go unexploited, mortgage lenders are taking advantage of a market fueled by low interest rates and massive government...
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
It's dinnertime, the phone rings and it might be someone important. Instead, you hear a recorded voice: "Congratulations! You've been pre-approved for...
McClatchy Newspapers | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- Numbers reported Thursday by the Mortgage Bankers Association show clearly that rising job losses are worsening the nation's housing t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing Wednesday about the Obama administration's proposed new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Th...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
How do the same banks that have repeatedly come to Washington over the last eight months asking for billions to rescue them from their catastrophic mistakes, somehow still "own the place"?
Adam Lioz | Posted 04.07.2009 | Politics
One every 13 seconds. That's how many families are losing their homes to foreclosure. More than 8 million families are at risk. And, this is no...
Jim Randel | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business
Consumer confidence, albeit presently at a 16-year low, will rise with a new administration. The fact is that housing prices go up when people think they will go up, and vice versa.
Washington Post | Jeffrey Birnbaum | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business
A year ago, the Mortgage Bankers Association was thrilled to sign a contract to buy a fancy new headquarters building in downtown Washington. Interest...
AP | Alan Zibel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Florida led the nation in mortgage fraud in 2007, a dubious distinction it's had two years running. The competition to be first in fraud is getting s...
AP | Lynn Adler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
U.S. mortgage applications sank last week to the lowest level since the end of last year despite falling borrowing costs, an industry trade group said...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business