Insurance

Technology is helping carriers to better manage their risk portfolios when it comes to underwriting and managing weather-related property risks.

"Lax regulation and monitoring of property insurers makes Florida mortgage markets far more exposed to climate risk than people might think," said Parinitha Sastry, an author of a working paper by researchers at Harvard University, Columbia University and the Federal Reserve.

Prevention through new building standards and mapping technology aim to keep home insurance rates down but mortgage bankers see challenges.

The National Flood Insurance Program would ideally be approved yearly, but instead it has gone through 29 reauthorizations since 2017.

State restrictions on the use of credit scores appear to help a wide range of consumers cut homeowner insurance costs to varying degrees, according to Matic.

Cost of property coverage rose more than 55% over the last five years and it'll likely keep rising through 2024, a report from Guaranteed Rate found.

Natural disasters have hammered U.S. home insurers and hindered some stateside origination activity, but no American lender has publicly pronounced a pullback over climate risks.

The volume of active for-sale condo listings in the Sunshine State increased by 40% last month compared to a year earlier, Redfin said.

The frozen rain pellets which can destroy roofs, sidings and windows were responsible for the largest percentage of insured loss last year.

The Charlotte, North Carolina, company has agreed to sell its remaining 80% stake in its insurance brokerage unit to raise billions of dollars in cash and extra capital. The "wild card" is how Truist will deploy them, one analyst says.