Introduction to Mortgages and Mortgage Backed Securities


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In Introduction to Mortgages & Mortgage Backed Securities, author Richard Green combines current practices in real estate capital markets with financial theory so readers can make intelligent business decisions. After a behavioral economics chapter on the nature of real estate decisions, he explores mortgage products, processes, derivatives, and international practices. By focusing on debt, his book presents a different view of the mortgage market than is commonly available, and his primer on fixed-income tools and concepts ensures that readers understand the rich content he covers. Including commercial and residential real estate, this book explains how the markets work, why they collapsed in 2008, and what countries are doing to protect themselves from future bubbles. Green's expertise illuminates both the fundamentals of mortgage analysis and the international paradigms of products, models, and regulatory environments. Written for buyers of real estate, not mortgage lenders Balances theory with increasingly complex practices of commercial and residential mortgage lending Emphasizes international practices, changes caused by the 2008-11 financial crisis, and the behavioral aspects of mortgage decision making




The Color of Credit


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An analysis of current findings on mortgage-lending discrimination and suggestions for new procedures to improve its detection. In 2000, homeownership in the United States stood at an all-time high of 67.4 percent, but the homeownership rate was more than 50 percent higher for non-Hispanic whites than for blacks or Hispanics. Homeownership is the most common method for wealth accumulation and is viewed as critical for access to the most desirable communities and most comprehensive public services. Homeownership and mortgage lending are linked, of course, as the vast majority of home purchases are made with the help of a mortgage loan. Barriers to obtaining a mortgage represent obstacles to attaining the American dream of owning one's own home. These barriers take on added urgency when they are related to race or ethnicity. In this book Stephen Ross and John Yinger discuss what has been learned about mortgage-lending discrimination in recent years. They re-analyze existing loan-approval and loan-performance data and devise new tests for detecting discrimination in contemporary mortgage markets. They provide an in-depth review of the 1996 Boston Fed Study and its critics, along with new evidence that the minority-white loan-approval disparities in the Boston data represent discrimination, not variation in underwriting standards that can be justified on business grounds. Their analysis also reveals several major weaknesses in the current fair-lending enforcement system, namely, that it entirely overlooks one of the two main types of discrimination (disparate impact), misses many cases of the other main type (disparate treatment), and insulates some discriminating lenders from investigation. Ross and Yinger devise new procedures to overcome these weaknesses and show how the procedures can also be applied to discrimination in loan-pricing and credit-scoring.




Mortgage Lending, Racial Discrimination, and Federal Policy


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Whether or not there is discrimination in the mortgage lending market is one of the most extensively debated issues in the civil rights arena. Because many early studies were flawed and the results misinterpreted on both sides of the debate, there is little agreement as to the next essential steps in either research or enforcement. This comprehensive volume seeks to clarify the debate by including rigorous review of fair lending research, applied projects, and enforcement activities to date, as well as recommendations for research needed to resolve unanswered questions. The intent of the authors is to help the housing industry, regulators, advocates, and the research community to better understand the issue of discrimination in an important area of American life -- the right to take out a mortgage to buy a home based on one's credit worthiness, not on one's race or ethnic group.




Pass the Mortgage Loan Originator Test


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Make no mistake, the SAFE National With UST exam is tough. This UPDATED and REVISED study guide has helped thousands of MLOs nationwide successfully kick off their careers as state-licensed loan originators. "Pass the Mortgage Loan Originator Test: A Study Guide for the NMLS SAFE Exam" delivers critical information - covering the topics on the most recent version of the NMLS content outline - in a clear and concise manner. This means that what is learned is actually retained. Most importantly, with this resource, you don't just memorize useless questions. You are thoroughly immersed in the material that you need to master in order to successfully pass the exam on your first attempt. Included practice exams help to measure how well you understand the concepts. They will give you a glimpse into the types of questions - and the difficulty - of what you'll face when you head to the testing center. Study with confidence. Authored by a team of esteemed mortgage loan originators, experienced financial writers and passionate educators, "Pass the Mortgage Loan Originator Test: A Study Guide for the NMLS SAFE Exam" provides accurate, relevant and timely information.




Mortgage Lending - Loan Officer Training


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Congratulations on your decision to enter the mortgage-lending arena. Mortgage lending is one of the most secure, respected, and exciting career opportunities available. Each day will bring you challenges that you will overcome, the excitement of helping to create a loan program that meets the needs of both the borrower and the lender, and the satisfaction of helping each borrower achieve their dreams of home ownership. Home Mortgage Lending is an excellent career opportunity that provides stability, advancement, and a sense of satisfaction to the loan officer who obtains the knowledge and skills necessary to excel within the profession. The training contained in the course provides specific information concerning the loan process and the part you and others play in that process. The information we offer in this program provides you with the foundation that you need to become a well rounded mortgage professional. The top of your field, you will specialize in the overall picture. You will develop the perfect mix of knowledge and skills, add to it the creativity required when overcoming the specific issues that occur during the loan process, and begin on the path that will lead you to the top of your profession. Mortgage lending provides you with the career option that will make you one of the most highly respected professionals within your community. The skills that you will attain over the coming weeks will make you a commodity that is in high demand in the market. Research has shown that the most important attribute of a successful loan officer is the drive to succeed within their chosen profession. The drive to succeed surpasses educational degrees, experience and personal attributes. Purchasing this program shows that you have the initial drive needed to begin on the path toward career stability and success and the ability attain top-producer status. Mortgage Lending is perhaps one of the most satisfying career options available. You will perform the service of helping people to fulfill their dreams of home ownership. The industry is fast-paced, exciting and offers a stable opportunity to anyone willing to put forth the effort necessary to succeed. Each file you receive will contain a myriad of variations that will ensure every workday provides you with the challenge to perform at your best. The coursework builds the foundation that you will need in the coming days, months, and years. Upon successful completion of the coursework and an understanding of each review section, you will find that you are have a higher industry skill level then 90% of your competing loan officers.




Residential Mortgage Lending


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The Secret of Mortgage Lending Success


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Discriminating Risk


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The U.S. home mortgage industry first formalized risk criteria in the 1920s and 1930s to determine which applicants should receive funds. Over the past eighty years, these formulae have become more sophisticated. Guy Stuart demonstrates that the very concepts on which lenders base their decisions reflect a set of social and political values about "who deserves what." Stuart examines the fine line between licit choice and illicit discrimination, arguing that lenders, while eradicating blatantly discriminatory practices, have ignored the racial and economic-class biases that remain encoded in their decision processes. He explains why African Americans and Latinos continue to be at a disadvantage in gaining access to loans: discrimination, he finds, results from the interaction between the way lenders make decisions and the way they shape the social structure of the mortgage and housing markets.Mortgage lenders, Stuart contends, are embedded in and shape a social context that can best be understood in terms of rules, networks, and the production of space. Stuart's history of lenders' risk criteria reveals that they were synthesized from rules of thumb, cultural norms, and untested theories. In addition, his interviews with real estate and lending professionals in the Chicago housing market show us how the criteria are implemented today. Drawing on census and Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data for quantitative support, Stuart concludes with concrete policy proposals that take into account the social structure in which lenders make decisions.