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About 64% of borrowers would like loans to be closed in three weeks, according to Arizent research.

The number of active listings nationwide jumped 31% from a year earlier, a record-high increase for a third straight month, according to a report Tuesday by Realtor.com. 

While a growing share of consumers expect housing costs and interest rates to decrease over the coming year, uncertainty is also leading some to see it as an inopportune time for both purchasing and selling, Fannie Mae reported.

Most of the companies announcing cuts declined to disclose how many workers they terminated, although publicly traded giants revealed their moves would save them tens of millions of dollars this year.

Only Essent saw a decline in profitability on a quarter-to-quarter basis during what ended up being a much better period for the business than for its mortgage lender clients.

The city remains one of the most unaffordable and as tech companies continue to work remotely, there is little appetite to pay millions to live in the area.

July marked the first month this occurred, suggesting that the small reversal in the upward trend of financing costs wasn't enough to change the downward trajectory in homebuyer activity.

The way the Federal Housing Administration is funded and constrained by laws, rules and other operational limitations is analogous to the FHA living in the horse-and-buggy era in an age when we are starting to see driverless cars, writes the executive director of the Community Home Lenders Association.

As interest rates rise, pressure to deliver a better customer experience is becoming more intense

Late-payment rates are rising at nonbanks that lend to people with lower credit scores. "We're probably entering a stretch where you're going to see a separation between those that are relatively good underwriters and those that are not," one analyst said.