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Four new mortgage acquisitions show how companies in home finance are prioritizing advanced technology in what has turned into the year of consolidation.

On Aug. 14, over 30% of the loans sent to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from each company were scored using VantageScore 4.0.

About 73% of potential buyers intend to purchase within the next year, up slightly compared to the first quarter, according to a Veterans United survey.

After losing money on production in most quarters between 2022 and 2024, independent mortgage bankers have achieved five consecutive quarters in the black.

So far, annual home lending growth is on track to slow, but not stop, with some positive developments surfacing amid broader challenges.

To manage systemic risks, Congress must give large IMBs a single federal regulator and emergency liquidity backstops, according to NewRez's SVP of Policy.

Nash Qadri is the Vice President of Product Management & Development at Applied Systems, where he leads product and engineering teams focused on financial management, automated accounting, and payment solutions like Applied Pay.

An index of contract signings decreased 2.3% to 71.2, the lowest since January and matching the second-worst reading in data back to 2001, according to National Association of Realtors data released Tuesday.

Housing starts fell 12.4% last month to an annualized rate of 1.24 million, according to federal government data released Tuesday.

Julia Jakimenko is the founder and CEO of Cyberette, an Amsterdam media forensics company backed by Rabobank and a member of NVIDIA Inception.