Appraisals

It's almost time to get your annual property tax appraisal notice — everyone's least favorite piece of mail.

Rising rates will dampen what had been a growing cash-out refinance market even as equity available to homeowners continues to increase.

Affordability will be an issue in nearly half of all metropolitan areas as the home purchase season starts.

Continued price growth in New York drove January's home prices up by 0.1% from December and by 5.4% over the previous year, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

U.S. bank regulators have tentatively agreed to ease an appraisal requirement that could help commercial real estate borrowers.

Homes for sale listings are scarcer than they've ever been entering the spring selling season.

Zeus Mortgage in Houston is positioning its new online crowdfunding platform as an alternative to traditional mortgages for property buyers and others having trouble borrowing to remodel homes or fund construction projects.

Changes in the housing market are creating new opportunities and challenges for credit unions, including how they market themselves to potential borrowers.

There were 89 markets that had the all-time high in median sales price last year with these 10 posting the biggest percentage gain over 2015.

With home values — and interest rates — rising, homeowners finally seem ready to tap into their homes' equity to fund long-delayed home-improvement projects.

A shortage of appraisers, combined with soaring demand for housing, is causing lengthy delays in Seattle and surrounding markets.

BOK Financial was victimized by the effect of rising interest rates in the fourth-quarter profit, as losses on the company's hedge positions resulted in a profit decline.

Appraisal management companies must self-regulate their prices unless they want the government to do it for them.

Fannie Mae has expanded the list of third-party vendors approved to validate borrower income, employment and assets as part of the Desktop Underwriter validation service.

BOK Financial will take a roughly $17 million earnings hit due to a change in the fair value of its mortgage servicing rights and a corresponding hedge.

Moves by lenders to adapt their processes with the TILA-RESPA integrated disclosure rule in mind appear to have staunched the increase in loan application defects, according to ACES Risk Management.

Affordable housing advocates are seizing on President-elect Donald Trump's call for tax reform, hoping that a new tax credit program to revitalize run-down homes in distressed neighborhoods will be attractive to the incoming administration.

The amount of equity homeowners hold grew by $726 billion, or 10.8%, in the third quarter of 2016 versus the year before, according to CoreLogic.

Shortage of appraisers in rural areas and compensation issue force lawyers to re-consider restrictions on communications between lenders and appraisers.

While the rate of homeowners who owed more on their home than what it is worth decreased nationwide, there were 17 neighborhoods with a large percentage of underwater homeowners.