OCC sees sharp drop in mortgages serviced by large banks

WASHINGTON — The amount of mortgages held by national banks has diminished by nearly half since the financial crisis, to $3.26 trillion in the third
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The country's top financial regulators have expressed concern that a reduction in bank lending in response to the royal commission into financial
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Mortgage rates are dropping. On December 12, 2018, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that home loan applications increased, likely
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The letters FHFA may not mean much to you, but the Federal Housing Finance Agency has a lot of power over the way houses are paid for in this
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The attempted robbery is among several similar incidents at various payday lending stores. Those included A Dec. 7 robbery at a Cash Store in
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According to global business journal Barron's, Meng Wanzhou's arrest could kick off a decline in foreign cash coming into the real estate market.
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An overly cautious approach by some lenders to tougher lending standards may be affecting their decisions to give loans to households and small
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Mortgage rates rose more noticeably today as a part of a 3 day bounce after hitting the lowest levels in roughly 3 months at the end of last week.
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It's time to let the reverse jumbo mortgage out of the doghouse. The loan option got a lot of negative publicity in the past—often for good reason. “There
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But that wasn't the pitch former White House spokesman Anthony Scaramucci used on Tuesday to recruit investors for a real estate investment trust
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For purchase mortgages, across all loan types, the net share of lenders reporting demand growth over the previous three months clocked the lowest
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The housing market is cyclical because the boom stage is almost always financed by a massive increase in the supply of money and credit by the
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Home Depot has posted negative total returns so far in 2018, due to trade worries and fears of a slowing housing market and U.S. economy. However
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Online shoppers in Singapore are second only to their counterparts from Hong Kong in Asia Pacific when it comes to making purchases from overseas
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Real Estate Fresh Finds is a weekly selection of newly-listed properties in the District, brought to you by Real Living At Home.
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“Yes, you have these abusive actors, but we get so much good from this product,” Bickert said at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit in
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An unlikely company is tackling the widespread cultural problem of smartphone addiction in a unique way: bribery. Vitaminwater is willing to pay
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Treseder spoke on a panel of expert marketers at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit on Wednesday in Laguna Niguel, Cali. She was
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At Google, there are two classes of workers: full-time employees and a shadow workforce of thousands of contractors. In fact, (goog, -0.29%) Google's
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United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May survived a leadership challenge Dec. 12 within her party that would have led to her ouster as the head of
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