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Real estate in the Magic Valley region of Idaho keeps getting more valuable.

While boosting origination volume for lenders and providing financial benefits for borrowers, the refinance boom could have adverse effects down the road, according to TransUnion.

Digitization presents opportunities for lenders to streamline the mortgage process in ways that benefit them and their borrowers, but three things stand in the path to full adoption.

Buyers are rushing into the housing market to take advantage of falling borrowing costs. Now, they're facing rising prices.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told senators that the central bank is willing to explore a credit-sensitive interest benchmark in addition to the secured overnight financing rate, which some banks say could cause problems during economic stress.

NMI Holdings saw its insurance-in-force grow 38% over the past year as 90% of its clients used its black box pricing module during the fourth quarter.

Refinance application activity last week was the highest in nearly seven years, with more than triple the volume from one year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Boulder and Estes Park saw median home prices fall in January as compared to the same month in 2019, but elsewhere in the region prices ticked up modestly.

Forget about Edina, Arden Hills and other coveted communities. A flight to affordability is upending the housing market in the Twin Cities.

Whether a deal involves a minority stake or a whole company carve-out, buyers and sellers should be aware of five issues that may pose transaction risk in the mortgage market.

Mike Weinbach will lead consumer lending as part of a reorganization that will change the responsibilities of three longtime bank executives.

Mortgage delinquencies dropped to a 40-year low in the fourth quarter as strong employment bolstered borrowers' ability to make timely payments, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

The unsuccessful scheme has become the focus of a legal battle involving two former Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco employees against that government-sponsored enterprise, which fired them in 2018.

Banks' lowering of origination fees and loosening of underwriting standards often foreshadow a downturn.

From the heartland to the desert, here's a look at 10 housing markets where buyers are looking to move — and the high-cost markets they're leaving, according to Redfin.

Oahu's housing market started a new year on all major positive notes, according to new data that showed median prices and sale volumes rose in January after some weakness last year.

The Community Preservation Corp. says its inaugural sustainability offering is the single largest bond sale by a community development financial institution.

February has become the new spring, according to panelists at the Fredericksburg (Va.) Area Association of Realtors' 2020 Vision: FAAR Housing Outlook round-table meeting.

Officials in Lakeland, Fla., are hoping they've found a strategy to lure private developers to build affordable single-family homes and apartments in the city.

The administration proposed to end the housing trust funds now financed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and to subject numerous agencies to the congressional appropriations process, among other things.