Despite Housing Slump, Mortgage Lenders Making Record Profits From Fees

by Moe Bedard · 1 comment

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Never ones to let an opportunity go unexploited, mortgage lenders are taking advantage of a market fueled by low interest rates and massive government subsidies to turn record profits. Their secret: The return of “junk fees.”

The Mortgage Bankers Association recently announced that independent mortgage lenders made an average profit of about $1,100 per loan originated in the first quarter of the year, an astonishing 635 percent increase from the previous quarter.

Read more at the Huffington Post

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1 carolyn berrian October 13, 2009 at 12:51 pm

I NEED A HUD REPRESENTATIVE TO HELP MEDIATE A MORTGAGE MODIFICTION.

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