Mortgage industry prognosticator Barry Habib was both surprised and honored that the Federal Housing Finance Agency approached him for a role on the Fannie Mae board. “I wasn’t expecting it, I didn’t solicit it, and it is an extreme honor,” Habib said in an interview with National Mortgage News. He was named to the Fannie […]
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Opendoor, whose stock price has soared since early July, has postponed a special stockholder meeting originally scheduled for today to address a Nasdaq listing notification. The vote, now rescheduled for Aug. 27, concerns a potential reverse stock split that, if approved by shareholders and enacted by the board, could help remedy the company’s share price
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Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently roiled the mortgage market with a post on X, writing “Fannie [Mae] and Freddie [Mac] will ALLOW lenders to use Vantage 4.0 Score with no current requirement to build new infrastructure (stays Tri Merge).” Not only is it highly unorthodox to be making huge policy decisions
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