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Fairway agrees to financial penalty over unlicensed LOs

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. agreed to resolve alleged violations surrounding unlicensed lending activity that occurred at one of its California branches earlier this decade and pay $160,000 in penalties.  Processing Content In 2021 and 2022, unlicensed branch employees were alleged to have conducted origination activity that was only permitted to be carried out by licensed […]

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Partial shutdown hits HUD, FHA and flood insurance programs

A partial government shutdown that began over the weekend remained in effect Monday, as the House had yet to act on a Senate-passed compromise bill that includes mortgage-related funding. Processing Content The departments of Housing and Urban Development and Treasury among the agencies affected. So too is the National Flood Insurance Program. “Most HUD staff

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High-quality investment mortgages secure EFMT’s $325.7 million RMBS

A pool of residential mortgages financing investor properties and second homes will collateralize $325.7 million in residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) from the EFMT 2026-AE1. Processing Content Although investor properties, which are prone to higher chances of default, account for 58% of the pool, analysts at Kroll Bond Rating Agency point out. Yet those chances of

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