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Canada's mortgage rates are creeping up — even though the country's central bank has slashed borrowing costs to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

While the housing market will suffer from the COVID-19 crisis, it's stronger than it was in during its last crash in 2008, according to First American Financial.

New Residential Investment, a real estate investment trust focused on housing, is selling a portfolio of debt with a face value of $6 billion.

The 2020 countdown of the National Mortgage News Top Producers list continues by featuring the loan officers ranked 201 to 300.

After years of bustling sales and rising prices, Buffalo's housing market has come to a screeching halt.

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities accelerated in January from a year earlier, marking the fifth straight annual gain and corroborating other recent data that showed a flurry of housing market activity prior to the coronavirus pandemic.

With interest rates at historic lows and recent increases in Tucson, Ariz., home values, many jittery homeowners impacted by the coronavirus outbreak are looking to refinance to get their hands on cash.

The hot start to home sales in Lafayette Parish, La., and elsewhere in Acadiana has slowed due to the novel coronavirus and may continue for the next two or three months.

The agency has relaxed some reporting requirements and joined other regulators in encouraging banks to help borrowers, but pressure is building on the bureau to do more to aid consumers suffering financial hardship.

The 2020 countdown of the National Mortgage News Top Producers list begins by featuring the loan officers ranked 301 to 400.