Paul Centopani

The November foreclosure rate represented an 80% decline from the year before, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Borrowers who exit CARES Act-related forbearance in the spring and have stacks of other bills to attend to may be in search of liquidity via such products, the company predicts.

Clear HOI — an encrypted, cloud-based tool that automates homeowners insurance underwriting — is getting released to the broader market by Rocket Mortgage’s sister company Nexsys Technologies.

While distressed mortgage rates crept down overall, serious delinquencies still tripled year-ago rates in September, according to CoreLogic.

The surge of COVID-19 cases slowed economic recovery and hampered improvements in the forbearance rate, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Employment worries and the pandemic's ongoing obstacles for home buying wore down consumer confidence in November, according to Fannie Mae.

Bee Mortgage App will use blockchain and automation provided by Elphi to create "a COVID tool for real estate agents" to get fully digital mortgage approval in under three minutes.

Overall housing value growth continued in the third quarter, as some markets more than doubled the national average, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency's Home Price Index.

The nine arraigned individuals face 136 counts of felony charges for allegedly running an advance fee mortgage relief scheme over the last decade, totaling $6 million.

The forbearance rate continued recovering in lockstep with employment improvement, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Mortgage delinquencies dropped to the lowest level since March but, particularly at the seriously delinquent level, they're still much higher than pre-coronavirus rates, according to Black Knight.

As mortgage rates stayed below 3% in the third quarter, originations spiked to the highest quarterly total since 2007 and highest dollar volume since 2005, according to Attom Data Solutions.

The widening chasm between housing supply and demand drove sales to record growth and prices to a seven-year high in October, according to Redfin.

Use of mortgage technology was fast-tracked due to coronavirus lockdowns and kept the lending industry humming, laying the foundation for a greater share of digital closings in 2021.

New-home construction maintained its momentum in October while possible site shutdowns loom.

Homes in some parts of the country spent as little as 20 days on the market, while the U.S. housing supply hit just 1.7 months in October, according to Remax.

The number of bidding wars increased for the sixth consecutive month, as Salt Lake City remained the most competitive housing market, according to Redfin.

The substantial Series D fundraise fuels speculation on whether Better.com will be the next mortgage company to hop on the IPO trend.

With the coronavirus cutting employment or wages in 32% of households, the number of potential homebuyers could shrink and cause home price growth to hit its inflection point, analysts say.

The third quarter’s higher share of purchase applications, which followed the refinance wave that crested in the second, caused a rise in mortgage application fraud risk, according to CoreLogic.