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The restrictions may be of interest to mortgage lenders who look to right-size by having more people multitask.

The plunge in mortgage volumes 2021 highs led to reduced business for insurers, while growing acceptance of attorney-opinion letters pose a greater competitive threat.

This was the fifth week in a row the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey reported a decline in the 30-year rate after peaking at 7.08%.

The Redfin study covers property transactions between January 2021 and September 2022.

Jan Davis has been named acting president of the technology standards organization as the Mortgage Bankers Association conducts a search for a permanent replacement.

Average loan amounts also increased, with mean purchase sizes crossing back above the $400,000 mark.

The FHFA should focus on the facts as it ponders the future of the Federal Home Loan Bank System.

And having a paperless process was an important reason for many in picking their originator, the National Survey of Mortgage Originations found.

The Lansing, Michigan-based firm was awarded the contract this spring and takes over from Novad Management Consulting, which had previously serviced government-held HECMs since 2014.

Raising the threshold for qualification for Home Ready and Home Possible, which additionally offer price breaks to lenders, could do more to make homeownership more equitable, the Mortgage Bankers Association wrote in a letter to the Federal Housing Finance Agency.