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The crime highlights the importance of ensuring the integrity of documentation used by lenders to verify loan information at a time when defect risk is rising.

The decline in competition might not have helped with affordability but it gave home purchasers more time to consider properties before they were snatched up.

Lenders gaze into the looking glass to forecast what’s ahead for the industry’s jobs, product mix, capital market policy and more.

Although seasonal slowing and limited inventory have temporarily reduced prospective financing, the number sales in the sector hit nearly 1 million in November, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The central bank’s new tone has many in the industry planning for potential volatility in 2022.

U.S. home construction starts strengthened in November to the fastest pace in eight months, suggesting builders are making a bit more headway on backlogs even as supply and labor constraints linger.

An industry expert shares key takeaways on how institutions can implement sophisticated technologies to attract a younger generation of customers.

However, the unusual profitability residential finance firms have previously enjoyed, and a strong housing market, could help to sustain their bottom lines.

Federal Reserve officials intensified their battle against the hottest inflation in a generation by shifting to end their asset-buying program earlier and signaling they favor raising interest rates in 2022 at a faster pace than economists were expecting.

Purchases inched upward, but refinance volumes retreated, with interest rates now well above levels from a year ago.