Mortgages

Contract closings decreased 2.4% last month to an annualized pace of 4.44 million after an outsize jump in February, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors.

The proposed legislation proposes to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit the creation and sale of contacts used for marketing.

The U.S. economy stalled in recent weeks, with hiring and inflation slowing and access to credit narrowing, the Federal Reserve said in its survey of regional business contacts.

Economic turbulence affected borrowers during the quarter and will likely impact their ability to refinance maturing loans, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

Home loan applications dropped for the second time in three weeks, with the 30-year conforming interest rate ticking up 13 basis points, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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The increases are partly due to the fact that the pandemic-related property backlog is finally moving forward, but it also stems from recent economic weakness.

Fannie Mae researchers found housing costs decelerating for the fourth straight quarter, but limited inventory may be driving hopeful buyers to look for opportunities in the new-construction market.

Mortgage subservicing opportunities open up as transfers rise: BSI

Hispanics will make the majority of homeowners by 2030. How can lenders meet their needs now, and what strategies can they employ in today's lending landscape?

The agency has been using the Freddie Mac weekly rate survey, but a methodology change by the GSE is the catalyst for the revision to determine the Average Prime Offer Rate for high-cost mortgages.

Victimized consumers made up nearly three-quarters of the requests for help received by CertifID last year.

Mauro Guzzo, who operates in both the U.S. and Mexico, is looking to build an international financial brand.

The top five lenders have a combined total volume of more than $40 billion at the end of Q4 2022.

Several of our best of the best share how they were able to keep their pipelines active when industry-wide volume was well below record levels the year before.

Rate volatility stemming from the banking crisis temporarily disrupted trading, but a broad range of deals large and small have gone up for bid since then.

The asset manager on Tuesday is set to begin a monthslong process to help the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. offload $114 billion of assets it picked up from Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. 

The loans increased their share to more than 20% of home lending volume in the fourth quarter, compared to just 7% a year earlier.

A February survey of 2,000 people who were looking to sell their home in the next 12 months, found that 86% were planning to buy another home, but of those respondents, 56% are waiting for rates to come down.

U.S. homebuilder sentiment rose for a fourth month in April as limited resale inventory helped drive demand for new houses, suggesting the residential real estate market is slowly recovering.