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FHA could stop charging extra interest on mortgage payoffs
WASHINGTON — Pressured by consumer protection regulators, the Federal Housing Administration is expected to end one of its most controversial practices: charging borrowers interest on their home mortgages for weeks after they've paid off the...
Tags: Freddie Mac, Economy, Business and Finance, Federal Housing Administration, Mortgages, Benjamin L. Cardin
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Federal regulators probing real estate kickback schemes
WASHINGTON — A settlement between the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a Texas home builder is drawing renewed attention to a controversial issue that was prominent during the years preceding the housing bubble: kickbacks in home...Tags: Insurance, Economy, Business and Finance, Mortgages, Real Estate Buyers, Consumers
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Federal regulators ease definition of qualified mortgage
Federal regulators have eased the definition of a qualified mortgage — a presumably safe and affordable home loan — to enable small banks and credit unions to help more marginal borrowers. The changes, announced this week, help fine-tune...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Mortgages, Finance, Consumers, Loans
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Kickbacks as 'a natural part of business' at Fannie Mae alleged
Before dawn one hazy March day in L.A., Armando Granillo pulled his SUV into a Starbucks near MacArthur Park, where he planned to pick up an envelope full of cash from an Arizona real estate broker, federal investigators say. Granillo, a foreclosure...
Tags: Real Estate Agents, Economy, Business and Finance, Foreclosures, Mortgages, FBI
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Local lenders say U.S. 'qualified mortgage' rules go too far
Even as federal regulators recently cracked down on loose mortgage lending, they hoped that credit unions and community banks would serve as a haven for marginal borrowers. Such neighborhood institutions know their customers, the theory goes, so they...
Tags: Freddie Mac, Economy, Business and Finance, Corporate Officers, Mortgages, Consumers
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Elizabeth Warren to pen new book -- a middle-class call to arms?
A book can’t rescue the American middle class. But a lot of politicians who say they want to rescue the American middle class are writing books about their travails and their vision — all timed to come out as the 2016 presidential election...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Ed Warren, Authors, Tea Party Movement, Book
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Reid to delay Senate votes on most Obama nominees until July
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he will delay votes on several of President Obama’s nominees for key posts until July, a decision raising the prospect that he’ll seek further changes to Senate rules...Tags: Jeff Merkley, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Thomas Edward Perez, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Short sales routinely show up in credit reports as foreclosures
WASHINGTON — Are large numbers of homeowners who have negotiated short sales with lenders at risk because of a startling omission in the American credit system? Do their credit reports and scores indicate that they were foreclosed upon, rather...
Tags: Freddie Mac, Economy, Business and Finance, Federal Housing Administration, Foreclosures, Mortgages
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Nuking the filibuster
In requiring the U.S. Senate to confirm presidential appointments, the Constitution aims to ensure a second level of scrutiny of the qualifications of government officials. But Senate Republicans have hijacked the confirmation process, not only to...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Harry Reid, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Labor Disputes
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Freshman senator with senior pluck takes on the financial industry
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the newest member of the Senate Banking Committee, waited patiently for her first chance to question top financial regulators at a recent hearing on Capitol Hill. When her turn finally came after 90 minutes,...
Tags: Sports, Freddie Mac, Economy, Business and Finance, Social Security, Republican Party
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High-cost borrowing is a new American norm, research finds
High-cost borrowing through payday loans, pawn shops, auto title loans and others is no longer on the margins of U.S. consumer behavior — about 1 in 4 Americans have tapped this kind of financing, new research shows. A new study by the National...
Tags: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Research, Consumers
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Lenders venturing back into subprime market
Michele and Russell Poland's credit was shot, but they managed to buy their suburban dream home anyway. After a business bankruptcy and a home foreclosure, they turned to a rare option in this era of tightfisted banking — a subprime loan. The...
Tags: Homes, Freddie Mac, Economy, Business and Finance, Mortgages, Housing and Urban Planning
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