(possible danger) The Twitter trap for mortgage finance firms – by JACOB GAFFNEY – hattip Jacob – In the upcoming October issue of HousingWire magazine, our tech guy Rick Grant gets deep into the usefulness of social media in the mortgage space.  It’s a must read [...]

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    10 charts – Bespoke’s Commodity Snapshot – With gold breaking to record highs every day lately, we thought now was as good a time as any to update our commodity snapshot.  Below we provide our trading range charts for ten major commodities. In [...]

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MORTGAGE COMPLIANCE EarlyCheck™ is a new web-based program that provides lenders with access to Fannie Mae Loan Quality Initiative (LQI) delivery data checks at any point in the lender’s business process. The goal is to help lenders identify potential problems prior to loan delivery. The initial offering of EarlyCheck has [...]

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Here is an interesting site for Realtors, or anyone looking to compare housing costs in different states and communities.

Credit unions, who usually don’t make headline news, certainly received some press late last week. The National Credit Union Administration & regulators seized three undercapitalized wholesale credit unions Friday, but the credit union industry, not taxpayers, will [...]

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