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Banking and credit union regulators are expected to respond to a White House call to root out discrimination in the predominantly white appraisal business. They will likely step up enforcement and data collection, reclaiming authority long ceded to the industry's governing body.

The number of people that have paid late in the near term has increased, according to multiple recent reports.

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said longer-run structural issues will continue to put upward pressure on home prices and rents even as the central bank begins a campaign to raise borrowing costs.

The Purchase Applications Payment Index was 8.3% higher in February compared with January and 22% over the same month in 2021, the Mortgage Bankers Association found.

Tom Warden is chief insurance and science officer of CLARA Analytics. He oversees the company’s scientific, technological and research operations.

Averages rose sharply across the board, as investors focus on the central bank's response to ongoing economic and geopolitical developments.

Jay Meschke is President of CBIZ Talent & Compensation Solutions and the executive search firm EFL Associates. Jay registers 29 years of experience in the retained executive search field, recruiting C-Suite executives for multiple industries and across a variety of functional disciplines. His portfolio of search assignments exceeds 750 projects and he leads an organization that ranks in the Top 40 out of 2,500 retained executive search firms.

A fresh wave of volatility threatens the battered U.S. Treasury market — and this time it’s all thanks to the Federal Reserve’s ambitious bid to shrink its $9 trillion balance sheet just as it raises interest rates.

Dollar losses from business email compromise attacks, many of which target real estate transactions, grew to $2.4 billion last year from $1.8 billion in 2020, a Federal Bureau of Investigations report found.