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Also, Guaranteed Rate and Amerifirst Home Mortgage focus on Western expansion, Notarize adds chief officers and Timios names new president.

Treasury dealers and investors are busy trying to predict exactly when the Federal Reserve might pull the trigger on cutting the size of its balance sheet and how big that drawdown could be when it does.

As Gen Z and millennials become homebuyers, companies are adding and upgrading their apps in the hopes of gaining a greater market share.

The mortgage industry has long sought a reduction, which could make homes more affordable to entry-level buyers with limited incomes, but such a measure also would limit the agency’s claims-paying resources.

The residential market is generally healthy, but distress is growing in areas where foreclosures are more common, homes are less affordable, and more properties are underwater, Attom finds.

All major averages have risen to start 2022, with the 15-year surpassing the ARM.

The nonprofit received a $1.5 million grant to monitor, evaluate and strengthen consumer protections in the digital financial marketplace. Here's what it's doing with the funds.

December's average balance for a mortgage to purchase a newly constructed property set an all-time high, the Mortgage Bankers Association's Builder Application Survey found.

Contract closings decreased 4.6% in December from the prior month to an annualized 6.18 million, figures from the National Association of Realtors showed Thursday.

KKR & Co. is acquiring a lending platform that caters to home-flippers, giving the investing giant an opportunity to eventually invest $1 billion a year in small real estate loans.

Influencer loan officers are aiming to reach the largest emerging group of homebuyers, one super-short video at a time.

In addition to being almost entirely composed of investment-purpose mortgages, about 100% of the pool’s 2,175 mortgages are agency eligible.

Home valuation professionals have had mixed feelings about automation out of concern that some forms could result in less accurate assessments.

The company will be restructuring its executive team as it prepares to go public, with the board looking for a new chairman and a new president.

The new offering’s loan structure is designed to hedge against digital currency's price volatility.

Modest reductions were made to the 2021 and 2022 outlooks, although the government-sponsored enterprise did boost purchase expectations for this year.

But a surge in purchases led overall mortgage volumes to a weekly gain and pushed average loan size to a new record.

The remaining 705,000 borrowers with pandemic-related payment suspensions may have complex or recent hardships to sort out, but the majority who had plans have exited them.

New U.S. home construction unexpectedly strengthened in December to the fastest pace in nine months, led by apartment projects and suggesting builders found some success navigating shortages of materials and labor.

The settlement is a reminder that officials who oversee the loan officer licensing system do actively police the fulfillment of professional requirements by loan officers.