April 13th, 2011 |
by John |
published in
Countrywide, FHA, News, NRMLA, Reverse Mortgage
Funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s counseling programs has been cut as a result of legislation scheduled to pass Congress this week. Made as part of a last minute deal to avoid a government shutdown, the FY 2011 Continuing Appropriations Act (H.R. 1473) removes all ($88 million) funding from the agency’s counseling [...]
April 21st, 2009 |
by John |
published in
Bank of America, Countrywide, NRMLA, Reverse Mortgage
The consolidation of Bank of America and Countrywide’s reverse mortgage business will be complete on April 27, said a statement from Bank of America. Additionally, on the same day, the company anticipates that Countrywide Bank, FSB will be fully merged with Bank of America. The wholesale channels for forward and reverse mortgages will be managed [...]
September 30th, 2008 |
by John |
published in
Bank of America, Countrywide, News, Products, Reverse Mortgage
Bank of America recently announced that they will be offering LIBOR based reverse mortgage products to wholesale brokers. According to the announcement, Bank of America still believes that the CMT index is better for you and you customer but they realize the spreads between LIBOR and CMT are volatile and may reverse course in the [...]
August 27th, 2008 |
by John |
published in
Bank of America, Countrywide, News, Products, Reverse Mortgage, Seattle Mortgage
When Bank of America completed the purchase of Countrywide in July, there was no mention of what would happen each companies reverse mortgage mortgage divisions. If you take a look at last months HECM endorsements, Countrywide was the third largest originator of HECMs and Bank of America was fifth. Together the two companies become the [...]
August 10th, 2008 |
by John |
published in
Countrywide, News, Reverse Mortgage
Late Friday afternoon Countrywide announced that they were discontinuing their reverse mortgage broker advisor program due to the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 being signed by the president. While we haven’t seen the mortgagee letter from HUD regarding the elimination of the program, Countrywide is taking a proactive approach. According to the email [...]
June 11th, 2008 |
by John |
published in
Countrywide, FHA, Gov. Updates, NRMLA, Reverse Mortgage
On May 16, 2008, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development published Mortgagee Letter 2008-14, which provides guidance on the role of “advisors” in the HECM program. The only lender I’ve seen make any drastic changes to their advisor programs after ML-14 was released is Countrywide. As of May 16th, Countrywide Reverse Mortgage Advisor [...]
