Origination

While intercompany relationships are established in any environment, activity seems to pick up when business declines.

Five days after Hurricane Ian slammed into the state — bringing with it a deadly storm surge, catastrophic flooding and powerful winds — the destruction it caused is becoming clearer.

Sales of co-ops and condos dropped 3.7% in the third quarter from the previous three months and more than 18% from a year earlier, appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. and brokerage Douglas Elliman Real Estate said in a report Tuesday.

Other offerings update the company's platform for hybrid and virtual closings, and allow borrowers to get an appraisal waiver pre-check before submitting a loan.

Median home prices fell 0.98% in August from a month earlier, following a 1.05% drop in July, Black Knight Inc. said in a report Monday.

The tempering of growth is a result of mortgage rates jumping and inflation, a report found.

The rise in rates over the past six weeks pushed the borrower's monthly disbursement up $337, Redfin said.

Methods to combat the discrimination include lender disclosures explaining the process, industry guidance around reconsiderations of value, uniform 3D property scans and more automated valuation models easier to audit than manual valuations.

The partnership is starting off small but ultimately aims to sell real estate through non-fungible tokens on a broader scale than others have in the past.

But those looking for news about a possible reduction in the mortgage insurance premium are still waiting.