Mortgage fraud risk is up across the country, according to the CoreLogic National Mortgage Application Fraud Risk Index (FRI) for Q1 2017. The FRI is a measure of loan-application level fraud risk in the mortgage industry, based on residential mortgage loan applications processed by CoreLogic Loan Safe Fraud Manager.
The index jumped 8 percent in Q1, up to 132 from 113 a year ago and 122 last quarter. CoreLogic notes that although this is the highest level for the Index since Q3 2010, at that time post-crisis controls against mortgage application fraud were tight. The CoreLogic Mortgage Fraud Consortium grew from 50 percent to 60 percent of application s between Q4 2016 and Q1 2017. …continue reading the rest of this post: Mortgage Fraud Risk Increases Nationwide
