Homeowners insurance

Unusual spikes in property taxes and insurance in many areas are causing servicing concerns that mortgage companies may not be used to managing.

There's temporary leeway on formal compliance with replacement-cost value requirements in order to sort out insurer concerns with a recent re-emphasis on them.

Above and beyond the obvious damage, wildfires levied a hidden cost on the finance industry: Mortgage lenders and investors lost more than $30 billion between 2020 and 2022, due to both accelerated defaults and prepayments following disastrous blazes.

State restrictions on the use of credit scores appear to help a wide range of consumers cut homeowner insurance costs to varying degrees, according to Matic.

Cost of property coverage rose more than 55% over the last five years and it'll likely keep rising through 2024, a report from Guaranteed Rate found.

Natural disasters have hammered U.S. home insurers and hindered some stateside origination activity, but no American lender has publicly pronounced a pullback over climate risks.

The volume of active for-sale condo listings in the Sunshine State increased by 40% last month compared to a year earlier, Redfin said.

The frozen rain pellets which can destroy roofs, sidings and windows were responsible for the largest percentage of insured loss last year.

Homeowners from Sarasota south to Naples, known for its eight-figure waterfront mansions, are having a tougher time selling their properties, and the buildup in inventory has caused home prices to fall at some of the fastest rates in the nation.

Over half of mortgage professionals in an upcoming Arizent survey suggest severe weather events will disrupt the housing market next year.

The digital lender's product comes amid soaring expenses for homeowner's coverage.

A combination of economic and environmental factors are sending property and flood coverage premiums soaring, which can make costs insurmountable for some.

The announcement came after several major insurer said they would stop issuing new homeowner policies or renewing existing ones because California's current rules made it too costly to cover homes.

Reeling from four hurricanes in 2020 and 2021 that caused $23 billion in damage, the state is undergoing an insurance calamity that is harming its economy and even reducing its population.

The storm is slamming housing markets already beset by some of the nation's highest property insurance premiums.

Major firms cite costly devastating hurricanes and widespread litigation against the industry as reasons to sunset policies for an unspecified number of property owners.

State Farm General Insurance Co. said it's no longer accepting new applications for property and casualty coverage in California last week, a year after Allstate Corp. also paused new policies, worsening what FAIR Plan, a state-mandated insurance pool, called a "looming insurance unavailability crisis." 

Mortgage lender's brokerage spinoff launches with more than 50 carriers.

Two professionals who advise servicers on compliance name their key areas of concern.

Five days after Hurricane Ian slammed into the state — bringing with it a deadly storm surge, catastrophic flooding and powerful winds — the destruction it caused is becoming clearer.