Mortgages

The good news in the Consumer Price Index report has not carried over to the 10-year Treasury yield and thus mortgage rates, Freddie Mac found.

The top five banks had a combined wholesale volume of more than $20 billion at the end of 2024's fourth quarter.

The legislative proposal highlights tensions around broader utilization of partial claim-style mortgage options and the VA's particular difficulty funding one.

With focus turning to increased domestic production, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange plans to launch a new lumber futures trading exchange in late March.

A trio of trends — rates, prices and economic uncertainty — will dominate the 2025 Spring buying season and likely affect activity, Realtor.com warned.

Refinance activity was up 16% from the end of February while purchase applications rose mildly, on the strength of fading rates amid larger economic woes.

Loan officers have said the majority of outreach from recruiters looks like impersonal "telemarketing."

The company is a leading player in the primary and secondary markets for government-backed reverse mortgages and also has been developing proprietary products.

Nationally, starts are higher even when seasonal differences are accounted for and in some areas distress is far above the U.S. average, Attom found.

For the first time in almost two years, mortgage products available for consumers are at a level established in 2012.