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Can You Trust Your Lender?

There is something new in the marketplace, what is being called the Fair Market Collaborative. As someone who has been looking for fairness in the mortgage marketplace since the 1970s you can bet that I welcome any effort to create a level playing field for borrowers. But will the new collaborative really change marketplace realities? [...]

21Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Interest Rates Rise Suddenly, Say Mortgage Bankers

The Mortgage Bankers association is reporting that mortgage rates moved up sharply during the past week. ___ “The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages increased to 5.25 percent from 4.81 percent, with points decreasing to 1.02 from 1.28 (including the origination fee) for 80 percent loan-to-value (LTV) ratio loans. The 44 basis point [...]

3Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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What’s The Difference Between Mortgage Brokers And Mortgage Bankers?

In general, a mortgage banker has the ability to make loans from his or her own funds. A mortgage broker finds funds for a borrower from investors such as insurance companies, commercial banks, S&Ls, and pension funds. As a practical matter, in many cases mortgage bankers act as mortgage brokers — and so do commercial [...]

28Aug2008 | | 0 comments | Continued