Articles from Mortgage Banking (September 1, 2007)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
(Former) Ginnie Mae president and new HUD general counsel Robert Couch.	Wisniowski, Charles	Interview	2307
Affordable Housing Trust Fund bill clears House committee.			352
Armed for oversight: as it nears the 20-year mark, the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators (AARMR) keeps expanding its role as the association for state mortgage regulators. A national mortgage licensing system is one of its newer initiatives.	Demuth, Jerry		2930
Banks expected to seek digital identity-management solutions.			318
Barbara Stein has been named vice president of credit risk management for Greensboro, North Carolina-based AIG United Guaranty's Domestic Residential Group.		Brief article	57
Blake Hering Jr. and Mike Wood have been named executive vice presidents of real estate finance and partners with Norris, Beggs & Simpson Companies in Portland, Oregon.		Brief article	42
Building on more solid ground: the mortgage industry is reeling from a period of bad news and market excess that has triggered an ongoing response from lawmakers and regulators. What some have called a market on steroids has since come crashing down to reality.	Gooch, Fredric J.		2815
C-BASS acquires Fieldstone Investment Corporation.		Brief article	171
Calendar of events.		Calendar	443
Capmark provides $113 million for Market Street at Woodlands.		Brief article	174
Charlotte O'Donnell of the Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association has been awarded CampusMBA's Education Advocate of the Year Award.		Brief article	38
Countrywide offers Spanish-language mortgage tool.			300
Credit Service Company picks Deal Maker Score.		Brief article	246
Dynamic modeling of house prices: tools for modeling house-price dynamics are valuable for those managing mortgage portfolios.	Roginsky, Michael; Li, Annie		2092
Dynatek launches onDemand Services.			253
Edentify adds IDAlert to FNB Merchants' software.			324
Fair-value accounting: hitch 'em up!	White, Brenda B.; Vakili, Mojgan		2136
Fannie Mae multifamily investment record during first half of 2007.		Brief article	213
Foreign homeownership in U.S. increases.		Survey	586
GAO: data breaches frequent; identity theft, not so much.		Report	357
GE Real Estate provides $156 million refinance for 12 multifamily properties.			332
Getting help with fair lending: as regulators continue to turn up the heat over fair-lending compliance, new technology is coming to the rescue of lenders.	Hawes, Sam		2788
GrupoMac.		Brief article	111
House committee approves extension of terrorism-insurance law.			498
House Democrats, Republicans file two anti-abusive-lending bills.			485
House flood insurance reform bill floats out of committee.			500
Housing activity: residential structures (thousands of units, SAAR).		Statistical table	609
Housing market to worsen in 2007 before improving next year.			332
HUD creates new Fair Lending Division.			360
Individual commercial markets at 'turning point'.			581
Indymac Bank FSB's Wholesale Lending Division.		Brief article	233
Integra Software Systems acquires FCC.			234
J.D. Power ranks Wachovia highest in home-equity line satisfaction.			603
Joseph Tkac has been named manager for the Wells Fargo Middle Market Real Estate office in Short Hills, New Jersey.		Brief article	42
Kelly Booth has been named vice president, Tom Malleis has been named product advisor and Sandra Martz-Griebe has been named product manager for Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Compliance Systems Inc.'s Mortgage Business Unit.		Brief article	52
Kenny Roberts has been named senior vice president, commercial lending, for the Phenix City, Alabama, office of Montgomery, Alabama-based Colonial Bank NA.		Brief article	35
Key economic indicators and interest rates.		Statistical table	370
Lendia LLC.		Brief article	38
Life-cycle communications: the notion of establishing an immediate connection with a new borrower through a welcome call can set the tone for open dialogue when a delinquency enters the picture.	Whelan, Pat; Zasloff, Dan	Survey	2975
M. Joy Drass and LaSalle D. "Donney" Leffall III have been appointed to the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta's board of directors.			41
Market performance gauge.		Brief article	174
MBA: progress made, but mold outlook remains murky.			395
Merger creates Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman.			376
Michael A. Salinger has been named managing director in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, office of Emeryville, California-based LECG LLC.		Brief article	51
Mortgage applications indexes: Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).		Statistical table	1040
National foreclosure helpline calls double in second quarter.			311
Nonresidential building holding steady during first half of 2007.			448
Office market in comeback mode: many of the nation's metro areas are posting significant gains in office-market fundamentals. The outlook in 2008 hinges on job growth.	Bell, John		3633
Old Republic Default Management Services.		Brief article	35
Overall rental vacancy rate drops in Q2.		Brief article	160
Platinum Home Mortgage upgrades to Metavante's MLOS software.			370
Property Records Industry Association.		Brief article	55
Q2 homeownership rate drops.		Statistical data	342
Quality Home Loans acquires Bankers Express Mortgage.			301
RamQuest, Ellie Mae partner to link title companies, brokers.			323
Searching for tomorrow's opportunities.	Schneider, Howard		864
Servicing scratch-and-dent loans presents special challenges.	Dowell, James		962
Somerset Partners buys New York building for $510 million.			313
Suitable or not? While there's urgency on the part of lawmakers and regulators to tackle problems in the subprime market, industry practitioners have trouble with some of the proposed remedies. Suitability clauses require originators to make subjective judgments about whether certain loans match up with certain borrowers. Sometimes it's not that obvious.	Morse, Neil J.		2750
The 2007 Servicing Operations Study: the latest Servicing Operations Study and Forum from the Mortgage Bankers Association shows direct costs for megaservicers in 2006 actually declined to $55 per loan. Small/medium and large servicers saw their direct servicing costs rise, however.	Walsh, Marina		3684
The appeal of second-tier markets: smaller, second-tier cities are hot markets for commercial real estate investors.	Leon, Hortense		3377
The House that Katrina built: Senators Mary Landrieu and Chris Dodd have introduced major new legislation to restore all kinds of housing in New Orleans. The House has already approved a bill, and if the Senate acts in the fall, hope could be headed for New Orleans.	Schiavone, Louise L.		3618
The lender's imperative: safeguarding the American dream.	Heiden, Cara		1246
The state of things.	Hewitt, Janet Reilley		559
The ticker.		Statistical table	457
Top 25 counties--residential ARM markets.		Statistical table	441
Top 25 counties--residential FRM markets.		Statistical table	442
Warehouse lenders, secondary market demand greater safety.	Lynch, Brian		871
West central residential lenders--top 25.		Company rankings	955