The mortgage industry's digital transformation is revolutionizing the home buying experience and upending the status quo for lenders and servicers. The Digital Mortgage Conference is the premiere event exclusively dedicated to these developments, bringing over 1,500 professionals to Las Vegas on Sept. 17-18 for keynote speakers, panels and the main attraction: live product demos showcasing the latest mortgage innovations.
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As social distancing related to the coronavirus complicates work for appraisers, real estate agents and construction lenders, professionals turn to technology and, in some cases, ask consumers to pitch in.
March 30
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An index of contract signings for the purchase of previously owned U.S. homes unexpectedly increased in February to a three-year high, representing solid housing activity that's likely to retrench because of the pandemic.
March 30
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Mortgage bankers are sounding alarms that the Federal Reserve's emergency purchases of bonds tied to home loans are unintentionally putting their industry at risk by triggering a flood of margin calls on hedges lenders have entered into to protect themselves from losses.
March 30
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For the housing market in the Twin Cities, it's looking a lot like January as the COVID-19 pandemic puts a chill on homes sales in the metro.
March 30
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Claudius van der Meulen is senior vice president of Europe for Entersekt.
March 30
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Homeowners reeling from coronavirus-induced economic shock are already enduring extremely long wait times while trying to get relief. Legislation passed last week could worsen the logjams.
March 29
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The real estate industry, struggling with coronavirus-linked limitations, got a boost with its sales business reclassified as an "essential" industry.
March 29
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It doesn't appear that the slowing local and national economy has had much of an effect on the Missoula, Mont., real estate market yet, which has been a seller's market since the end of the last recession.
March 29
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Maria Volkova is a reporter at American Banker whose coverage also appears in National Mortgage News. She previously worked at HousingWire where she covered housing agencies, with a focus on the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Prior to that, Maria wrote the FHA/VA newsletter at Inside Mortgage Finance. She graduated from the University of Maryland and currently resides in Montgomery County, MD.
March 29
