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Mortgage application activity decreased 1.2% on a seasonally adjusted basis last week, but refinance volume picked up as interest rates reached a new survey low, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed consumers’ attitudes and behaviors toward money and payments. What has changed?

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken a hands-off approach to servicers during the pandemic. But with forbearance plans set to expire and President-elect Biden likely to appoint new CFPB leadership, companies lacking aggressive plans to help borrowers could face tougher enforcement.

Fudge, who has served in the House since 2008, represents most of the majority-Black areas of Cleveland as well as part of Akron.

While distressed mortgage rates crept down overall, serious delinquencies still tripled year-ago rates in September, according to CoreLogic.

Whether Ginnie issuance increases in the future may depend in part on the extent to which the Biden administration wishes to tap the FHA to promote affordable housing and homeownership.

In November, more loan products were being offered both at the upper and lower ends of the market.

If CMBS litigation picks up in earnest in the aftermath of the pandemic, lessons gleaned from over a decade of RMBS litigation could pay dividends, Bilzen Sumberg lawyers Philip Stein and Kenneth Duvall say.

Despite an unpredictable year, one degree of normalcy has returned to Seattle-area home sales: In a dip typical of the winter season, fewer homes were on the market in November and fewer new sellers were listing.

The three companies agreed to pay a total of $74 million in remediation.

The surge of COVID-19 cases slowed economic recovery and hampered improvements in the forbearance rate, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Recent Black Knight numbers put the average retention rate at a record low for the post-crisis period that followed the Great Recession.

The complaint dates back to 2014 state regulator examinations when the Dallas company was known as Nationstar.

The single-family, duplex and multi-unit condo properties have an average age of 60 years, more than double the age of other rated SFR securitizations.

Employment worries and the pandemic's ongoing obstacles for home buying wore down consumer confidence in November, according to Fannie Mae.

Strong demand by buyers bidding above asking price helped push up the median resale price of single-family homes on Oahu to $872,500 in November, the second highest ever.

Jeff McGuiness is stepping into an organization that just had its best quarter ever in origination volume.

The flow of assets and capital in manager selection, municipal bonds and business and mortgage capital reveals forms of systemic racism that often get overlooked.

The flow of assets and capital in manager selection, municipal bonds and business and mortgage capital reveals forms of systemic racism that often get overlooked.

Plus: per-loan profits break a record and FHFA extends pandemic-related measures.