With affordability at a 39-year low, the FHA has been modifying its loan programs to help relieve first-time homebuyers. 
Primarily, allowing home buyers to include rental income from accessory dwelling units during ...

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At the time the Dow was headed for 16,000 and there were near-daily headlines via Marketwatch and CNBC all calling for a correction when the down hit 16,000.

According to a couple buried stories in reuters and marketwatch, China is recalling all of the gold it stored in London, back to China, to be stored on it's own soil, at a location to be used as a trading hub.

If I knew that, I would be interviewing on CNBC and with Marketwatch.

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I've been reading a lot on housing wire, nasdaq, market watch, and mortgage orb, and it seems a big discussion occurring is whether or not nonbank servicers should have more regulations.Here is what I learnednonbank special servicers wield $1.4 trillion in mortgage servicing rights out of a nearly $10 trillion marketnonbanks use short-term financing to buy servicing rights for troubled mortgage loans that will likely not pay off until difficulties resolve in the long-termInfrastructures might not be able to handle the responsibility of servicing large volumes of mortgage loans17% of the 30 largest mortgage servicers were not banksnonbank special servicers more susceptible to economic downturns that could increase nonperforming loans that require servicer loss mitigationnonbank servicers don't require same capital levels as a large bank lenderreason for standards for banks was deposit insurance and the sense that IDIs could impose risks on taxpayers (not applicable to non-banks)A recent report from Fitch Ratings suggests rise of nonbank servicers threatens private-label residential mortgage-backed securitizations (nonbanks now service 74% of all private-label securities by loan count)higher risk to GSEs buying from nonbanks due to a counterparty that may default on financial obligations (representation and warranty obligations)Elizabeth Warren, instrumental in formation of the CFPB is pushing for study on nonbank servicers.I know there is a variety of different professionals on BP, and I'm trying to understand and, more importantly, weigh all the pros and cons and consequences that would occur if the FHFA were to impose stricter regulations on nonbank servicers.

In fact I think there was a big write up in the Wall Street Journal and on Marketwatch about discount brokers and Redfin how it was so much cheaper to sell a house these days because the internet has such a wide reach.  

Even in the same county, there are various pockets of growth, and lack of, and one needs to dig deeper into their local market, watch what is selling and where, pricing, etc. in order to know what their market is.

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