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Mortech Adds LPMI Products to Mortgage Pricing Engine

Posted by Mike Schultz on May 20, 2014 11:02:00 AM

LPMI addition offers greater loan officer flexibility with CFPB regulations

 

LINCOLN, Neb.— March 4, 2014 — Mortech, a Zillow® business providing mortgage technology software solutions for mortgage bankers and secondary market teams, today announced the release of new LPMI products and functionality to the suite of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau compliance tools built into Mortech’s Marksman®  product and pricing engine. Mortech released the compliance tools last November to allow loan originators to manage compliance upon intake, prior to the loan application entering the loan origination system, and has been adding functionality since then.

 

The newest tool added to the suite is a Lender Paid Mortgage Insurance (LPMI) module that allows the lender to pay the Mortgage Insurance (MI) premium for their mortgage customers. The one-time premium is added into the interest rate that is charged on the loan. Now, Marksman supports both LPMI and borrower-paid MI. If a borrower’s paid single premium is used, the points and fees calculation includes any portion of the premium that exceeds the FHA upfront mortgage insurance premium.

 

“From a compliance standpoint, since the MI premium is added into the interest rate, the charge is completely excluded from the QM points and fees test,” said Tom Erickson, Mortgage Industry and Compliance Specialist at Mortech. “This will make it an attractive option for some lenders. If a borrower’s paid single premium is used, the points and fees calculation includes any portion of the premium that exceeds the Up Front Mortgage Insurance Premium (UFMIP) charged on FHA loans, which is currently at 1.75 percent. This option is now built into Mortech’s software.”

 

The Marksman Compliance Suite is a full-blown compliance management system, designed to help lenders identify and address compliance issues early in the loan process, while providing the most accurate pricing available to borrowers, especially the specific compliance checks required for the Qualified Mortgage (QM) rule, including: 

  • APR/APOR rate check spread
  • Applicable debt-to-income ratios
  • Lender fees and points calculation
  • Non-qualification due to loan risk
  • Lender or Borrower Paid Mortgage Insurance

In addition to QM tests, Marksman also provides checks for higher-priced mortgage loans, Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act rules, investor eligibility through an exclusive partnership with AllRegs, and a workflow for anti-steering, where the loan officer can view and print an anti-steering disclosure form. All compliance tests are customizable, allowing loan managers to disable certain tests or make them mandatory. In addition, built-in auditing tools allow lenders to provide support in the case of a compliance audit.

 

About Mortech, a Zillow business

 

Lincoln, Neb.-based Mortech was founded in 1987 to provide product and pricing engine solutions, including best execution pricing, AllRegs®  eligibility, detailed profit structures and best execution PMI, all for an extensive list of investors; lead management solutions, including a sophisticated sales dashboard, ratetracker, automated lead distribution and email marketing; and lock desk solutions, including lock pipeline management, custom reporting, LO compensation, LOS integration and the ability to lock directly with investors. Thousands of correspondent lenders, bankers, credit unions and smaller community lenders use Mortech®  tools. In addition, Mortech serves up mortgage product and pricing information to some of the top real estate and banking websites, including Zillow, Bankrate®  and LendingTree® . Mortech has been recognized by Mortgage Technology magazine as a Top 50 Service Provider every year since 2010. The company won a 2010 Mortgage Technology magazine Synergy Award with AllRegs. In 2012, Mortech was acquired by leading real estate information marketplace Zillow, Inc. To learn more about Mortech visit  http://www.mortech.com.

 

Zillow, Marksman and Mortech are registered trademarks of Zillow, Inc.

 

AllRegs is a registered trademark of Mortgage Resource Center, Inc. Bankrate is a registered trademark of Bankrate, Inc. LendingTree is a registered trademark of LendingTree, LLC.

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