Loan Think

We're hearing that I learned a new word recently and that word is “selfie.”

With mortgage rates dipping to all-time lows over the past couple of years, homebuyers had no choice but to become spoiled. Unfortunately, nothing good lasts forever.

We're hearing that it hasn’t been easy to be a real estate investment trust mortgage-backed securities investor recently.

Some wild and crazy letters of explanation from consumers to originators about having bad credit.

Barry Habib, chief market strategist for Residential Finance, provides statistics on the Case-Shiller Home Price Index as well as figures from CoreLogic's latest foreclosure report.

Due process is an integral piece of each failed transaction.

Make marketing plans around older single females and families looking for schools.

The June pending home sales report has to be taken with a grain of salt because some of the activity is from individuals jumping in with the perception that rates were on the rise and they wanted to get in while the getting was good.

As FHA mortgage insurance protection has changed, it has pushed some mortgages into the "higher priced" category.

We're hearing that in the wake of the financial crisis traditional advertising and marketing messages from the banking industry may be falling on deaf ears.