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While very low inventory prevented a full market recovery, pricier home listings only trail year-ago totals by 9.2%, according to Zillow.

The single-borrower deal, sponsored by Brookfield, was pulled in the spring due to market conditions that halted most securitizations at the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Booming refinancing is expected to more than offset the tighter underwriting in second-quarter mortgage results.

It's a tough time to be shopping for a home around Seattle. Blame the coronavirus pandemic.

For the first time in three weeks, mortgage application volume increased, this time by 2.2%, as purchase activity was up in a holiday-shortened week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Home resales on Oahu continued their downward movement in June, but the decreases affected by safety measures were not as big as they were in May.

A bond market once thought to be key to the futures of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — and the roughly $5 trillion of home loans they backstop — could instead find itself on the scrap heap due to their own regulator.

A Detroit-based company, which owns Rocket Mortgage and Quicken Loans, listed the size of its upcoming offering in filing as $100 million, a placeholder amount that will likely change.

Tricon American Homes launches the fifth securitization since mid-May secured by loans that finance institutional ownership and management of single-family residential rental homes.

The number of loans going into coronavirus-related forbearance dropped for the third consecutive week, as the growth rate fell 8 basis points between June 22 and June 28, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.