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Many mortgage companies are hoping to operate remotely through year-end and are asking regulators for relief to that end.

With mortgage rates and housing inventory both at all-time lows, the majority of consumers would overshoot their budgets for the right home without accounting for future costs, according to LendingTree.

If it makes landfall as a Category 3 storm as was initially projected, damage from Hurricane Laura's surge could potentially devastate 432,810 residential properties in Texas and Louisiana, according to CoreLogic.

The number of loans going into coronavirus-related forbearance decreased for the tenth straight week, but to a lesser degree than in previous weeks, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

As interest rates tumbled throughout July, prepayments climbed to the highest monthly rate since 2004, but 90-days-or-more delinquencies were on the rise from June, according to Black Knight.

Rather than letting zombie properties sit vacant, selling them to new owners and getting them reoccupied, creates the desired outcome.

Positive payment behaviors in conjunction with CARES Act measures kept mortgage delinquencies from rising, but the number of borrowers facing hardship grew exponentially from last year, according to TransUnion.

Travel restrictions have left hotels like Miami Beach's Fontainebleau struggling to repay their mortgage loans.

The Tri-COG Land Bank, a multicommunity effort to get abandoned and blighted properties back on the tax rolls, has sold its first property.

The city of Birmingham plans to set aside nearly $1 million in the 2021 budget to prop up the underperforming CrossPlex Village development in Five Points West, city officials said.