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In 2011 Congress paid for payroll tax relief by raising secondary market guarantee fees for 10 years. The Mortgage Bankers Association, and others, don’t want to see that happen again.

The plan aims to cut monthly payments by roughly 25% for homeowners in government-backed mortgages who are negatively impacted by the pandemic.

Officials have pledged to maintain bond buying until the economy shows "substantial further progress" on inflation and employment as it recovers from COVID-19.

Soaring home prices and the abundance of all-cash offers that the deep-pocketed can afford makes home buying even harder for the average borrower, according to a Redfin report.

The shift to higher-margin home purchase policies helped to boost results at First American, Old Republic and Stewart.

Valerie Hoffman, Chief Research Officer at Meru Health, is a psychiatric epidemiologist by training (MPH from Yale University and PhD from Johns Hopkins University). She holds an adjunct faculty position at the University of Iowa, where she was an Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine and Epidemiology prior to working at Lockheed Martin and Research Triangle Institute. She has nearly 100 publications from work primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health, Veteran’s Administration, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. 

Rachel Morgan is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at iCIMS.

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose for the first time in five months in June as housing inventory improved slightly, illustrating the strength of housing demand.

Tim Walsh is the senior managing director of TIAA.