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Mortgage servicers are getting better at helping borrowers avoid foreclosure, as evidenced by a declining auction rate, which was also supported by healthy home equity levels, according to Auction.com.

Rachel Lyubovitzky is CEO and co-founder of EverythingBenefits, the leading provider of next-generation automated benefits technology that uncovers hidden costs, eliminates errors and helps keep companies compliant.

New Residential Investment Corp. took a $32 million net loss in the second quarter as it diversified its business lines and repositioned to protect its mortgage servicing rights from falling rates.

Any growth in housing starts and home sales in the second half of 2019 will be muted by continuing inventory constraints and rising home prices, according to Freddie Mac.

Milica Kostic is a tech blogger and contributor at SmallBizGenius, Techjury and Hosting Tribunal. With a degree in sociology, she is very passionate in writing about many social phenomena affecting our society today. She is specifically interested in marketing, technology, customer and employee experience.

As a solution architect at Atos North America, Jonas Bull leads pre-sales efforts, solution design and customer engagement, and manages cloud and hybrid engineering projects involving high performance computing, artificial intelligence and analytics. Bull helps industries across market verticals recognize value from technology investments, as well as identifies and prioritizes their goals for growth, design and implementation.

Bull has more than 20 years of business, leadership and technology experience, including Forrest Health Systems of Mississippi, CSpire Telecom and the US Navy. Bull is a mentor for students at University of Texas at Dallas, a volunteer mentor with Score.org, and is an active member of Tech Titans of North Dallas. He holds a bachelor's degree in Anthropology from the University of Southern Mississippi, and is pursuing an MBA with the Smartly Institute of Washington, D.C.

Low mortgage rates and thriving employment should be the recipe for a strong housing market. Instead, they're deepening America's affordability crisis.

Contract signings to purchase previously owned homes rose in June by the most in three months, indicating demand may pick up with the help of lower mortgage rates and steady job growth.

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities in May decelerated for a 14th straight month, underscoring moderation in the nation's real estate market.

Anil Somani is chief transformation officer at Altimetrik.