Mortgages

PRPM 2023-NQM3 Trust has issued residential mortgage-backed securities that are supported by 516 loans, 23% of which were originated by Newfi Lending.

In a filing, the company's subservicing subsidiary Loancare said 1.3 million customers had their data compromised, while in an ongoing situation, customers of fellow title insurer First American find themselves without email or online access after a separate incident last week.

Values declined in two regions and were flat in two others, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index measures a period when 30-year mortgage rates were climbing toward 8%, shutting out increasing numbers of would-be homebuyers.

The A1 tranche of $172 million (66.8%) is rated as AAA by Fitch and KBRA.

Chicago businessman David Izsak grifted several financial institutions out of $4 million by taking out phony home loans and other types of credit.

The so-called core personal consumption expenditures price index barely rose in November and trailed policymakers' 2% target by one measure, reinforcing the central bank's pivot toward interest-rate cuts next year.

Money has been squeezed out of the market by central banks fighting to get an inflation surge under control. That's made borrowing more expensive for governments, corporates and consumers, and could keep denting spending well into next year.

Purchases of new single-family homes decreased 12.2% to a 590,000 annual pace last month, a one-year low, government figures showed Friday.

Freedom Mortgage and UWM are looking to beef up their headcount, as the Fed signals interest rates will drop.

Median homes in the top three cities in this ranking are being sold on average 12 days faster than the year before.

The credit grader lowered Brookfield Property's score by two steps to BB from BBB-, the lowest level of investment grade, and the rating remains on negative outlook.

FHA-insured and Department of Veterans Affairs-guaranteed mortgages bear watching next year, according to Intercontinental Exchange.

The title company was also attacked in 2019 and joins Fidelity National and Mr. Cooper among recent victims.

Recent pullbacks in interest rates have lowered monthly payments, but amounts needed still make home buying unaffordable by most standards, according to new reports.

Rates that have been below 7% for two consecutive weeks have given originators a gift at what's typically a slow time of year, Freddie Mac said.

Even if lower rates boost inventory and shift sales from new to existing homes, these companies are well-positioned to deal with the change, analysts said.

The effects of expected lower mortgage interest rates are boosting a lot of different facets of the housing market.

With a tough winter predicted for lenders, servicers may struggle making timely principal and interest payments to investors, industry stakeholders warn.

The Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are suing a real estate developer over an alleged bait-and-switch land-sale scheme near Houston. The developer used TikTok and other social media sites to lure Hispanic immigrants into predatory loans, the government alleges.