Articles from Mortgage Banking (January 1, 2005)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
A new level of industry maturity: commercial real estate has earned its place in the pantheon of stable and attractive investment classes. While a smaller market than stocks or bonds, the real estate market has new followers.	Riggs, Kenneth P., Jr.		3031
Amnet launches correspondent channel.		Brief Article	201
AppIntelligence sees 300 percent increase for 4506-T service.		Brief Article	213
Avoiding blind spots.	Morse, Neil J.		1105
Borrowers adjust to higher rates.	Schneider, Howard		825
Builder joint ventures: several lenders are hot on the trend of setting up joint ventures with home builders. Big-name national lenders as well as more moderate-sized lenders are making these ventures work. They are also being used to target emerging-markets business.	McGarity, Mary		5721
Business/industrial parks' slow recovery: recovery is under way for industrial and business parks. Three markets--Northern New Jersey, Chicago and Los Angeles--illustrate the factors fueling the rebound in the nation's stronger industrial markets.	Bell, John		3917
Calendar of events.		Calendar	458
California commercial loan delinquencies down.		Brief Article	221
California office and industrial markets making a comeback.			817
Commercial real estate market demand growing.			875
Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co.		Brief Article	47
Consumers rate the post-boom industry: the overall mortgage industry customer-satisfaction rating inched up a point from the same study done a year ago. The new research prepared for Mortgage Banking by CFI Group shows strong improvement among first-time buyers' satisfaction ratings.	Park, Rodger		5056
Correspondent Services Sales Division of IndyMac Bancorp Inc.		Brief Article	48
Customer Alliance for Performing Sellers Group (CAPS).		Brief Article	92
DebtX sells $97 million loan portfolio.		Brief Article	152
Digital disclosures.	Cooley, Scott		1082
DocuSign launches Gateway for online signing.			297
DSI and Safedocs offer id theft protection.			283
Dynatek executes 1 millionth plug-in transaction.		Brief Article	173
E. Neville Isdell has been elected to the board of directors of Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks Inc.		Brief Article	50
Erick Gustafson has been promoted to vice president, government affairs.			218
First Franklin Financial Corporation.		Brief Article	42
Gary Bierfriend has been named president of MortgageIT Inc. in New York.		Brief Article	60
Ginnie Mae's Rosenfeld appointed FHFB chairman.			332
GMACCM arranges $14.5 million financing.		Brief Article	85
Guild Mortgage Co.		Brief Article	46
Homeownership rates lower for migrants moving to emerging gateway cities.			650
Homestar changes name to Opteum.		Brief Article	153
House prices show annual rise of nearly 13 percent.			656
Housing market ends 2004 strongly.			419
Industry leaders likely to outsource.			360
Integrating disparate mortgage processing systems.	Litke, Tom		1114
James M. Wells III has been appointed president and chief operating officer.		Brief Article	129
John L. Kosicki, CMB, has been named senior vice president, Residential Banking Group resource leader, for Coastal Federal Bank in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.		Brief Article	45
Joseph Preston has been promoted to executive vice president of Credit Lenders Service Agency Inc.		Brief Article	56
L.J. Melody finances $64 million in acquisition funding.		Brief Article	127
LandAmerica Assessment Corporation (LAC).		Brief Article	18
LandAmerica Financial Group Inc.		Brief Article	45
Life companies still like real estate: the share of commercial real estate loan originations by life companies has slipped in recent years as conduits have come on strong. But life companies still like commercial mortgages, and their origination volume should remain strong in 2005.	Leon, Hortense		2943
LoanCity.		Brief Article	76
Lofty ambitions: in many markets today, converted old urban buildings are becoming prime loft space for a growing market of tenants.	Kleen, Kevin		2415
Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation.		Brief Article	21
Mark Sievewright has been named senior vice president of business development for Fiserv Inc. in Brookfield, Wisconsin.		Brief Article	38
Market performance gauge: worst-performing MSAs by price tier over the last one-year period (through 6/30/04).		Illustration	243
MBA/STRATMOR group survey shows profits down for first half of 2004.			492
MBC and eAppraiseit offer appraisal discounts to Plan members.			286
MBC and Unisource offer bundled discounts on settlement services.		Brief Article	154
Michael R. Mals has been named executive sales consultant for voluntary products in the Mortgage Lending Solutions unit in Northbrook, Illinois, for New York-based Assurant Solutions.		Brief Article	52
MILA implements Ellie Mae's ClickLoan into DecisionPoint.		Brief Article	192
Moderation in the outlook: a modest rise in rates and moderation in the pace of economic growth are both part of the outlook for 2005. Some wild cards include the price of oil and potential fall-off in foreign demand for U.S. debt and mortgage-backed assets.	Duncan, Douglas G.; Warnock, Veronica Cacdac	Cover Story	3777
Moody's downgrades five classes of Banc of America Commercial Mortgage.			589
Mortgage applications indexes Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).		Illustration	2075
National residential lenders--top 30.		Illustration	1078
New Century November production hits $3.6 billion.		Brief Article	76
Opteum Financial Services LLC.		Brief Article	70
Part 2: AMCO's board adds Kemp.	Royse, Matthew		1022
Preparing for an IPO.	White, Brenda B.		1176
Radian unveils new Web site.		Brief Article	207
Rates not the problem.	Hewitt, Janet Reilley		386
Residential mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures down from 2003.			576
Rock Financial enters endorsement agreement with NBA star.		Brief Article	111
Russell A. Budd and Martin M. Wasmer have been elected to the board of directors of Naples, Florida-based Bank of Florida N.A.		Brief Article	51
Second WTC insurance verdict favors leaseholder.			562
Susan Lee Furbay has been named director of the Hospitality Group in New York for Stamford, Connecticut-based GE Commercial Finance Real Estate.		Brief Article	60
The Hispanic housing boom: during the next few years, lenders will be doing their best to tap growing demand from Hispanic homebuyers. The numbers all indicate this is where a large slice of new home-buying demand will come from.	Bergsman, Steve		3549
The ticker.		Illustration	496
Thomas D. Wood provides $22.125 million financing.		Brief Article	68
Tony Bennett has been named vice president of national sales for Houston-based Stewart Mortgage Information's (SMI's) eTitle division.		Brief Article	45
Top 30 counties--existing-home transactions.			485
Top 30 counties--new-home transactions.			464
Transitioning out of transition.	Newman, William A.		1300
Trickle training and echo training.	Hubbard, Andrew		611
Trinity launches solution for Countrywide's correspondent lenders.		Brief Article	192
U.S. markets still tempting to foreign money: foreign investors have been pouring money into U.S. real estate in recent years. In 2003, one survey estimates that foreign investment in our real estate markets grew by 59 percent.	Reiss, Dale Anne		2003
United Financial to acquire Plus Funding.		Brief Article	177
Wholesale Lending Sales Division of Pasadena, California-based IndyMac Bancorp Inc.		Brief Article	119
Wholesale Subprime Lending Sales Division of Pasadena, California-based IndyMac Bancorp Inc.		Brief Article	106
Wilmington Finance Inc. (WFI).		Brief Article	39