Mortgages

The month ended with 54,000 less properties for which the borrower was at least 30 days or more late on their payments, Black Knight said.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency's quarterly report said that the government sponsored enterprises prevented a total of 96,952 foreclosures

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's latest request for information floats the idea of an "auto-refi" and potentially extending pandemic-related options like forbearance for permanent industry use.

"To talk about 95% of issuers by count being compliant without recognizing that a very large number of issuers hold few MSRs is disingenuous," one industry executive told the chairman of Whalen Global Advisors.

Both companies have rolled out tools that allow for communications to take place entirely in Spanish if the customer desires.

BayFirst Financial Corp. said it initiated the process of shuttering its out-of-state network of residential mortgage loan production offices.

Inflation and recessionary concerns affected movements in the benchmark 10-year Treasury, itself at an 11-year peak, Freddie Mac said.

Bond traders are girding for the risk that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is ready, willing and able to plunge the U.S. into recession to get the inflation bogey under control.

The only way to address inflation is for Congress to fix issues around home supply and demand, the National Housing Coalition said in reaction to the Federal Reserve's move Wednesday.

And the rate of distress in second-lien home loans ticked up from the previous month, according to Standard & Poor's Dow Jones and Experian.

On the other hand, the economists from the UCLA Anderson Forecast claim the U.S. is not currently in a recession and that the chance of a recession in the next 12 months is less than 50%.

The average purchase loan amount rose as a brief increase in demand for government-sponsored loan programs cooled.

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell for the seventh straight month in August as rising mortgage rates continued to erode affordability and deal a considerable blow to the housing market. 

Some stakeholders in the mortgage industry are concerned about the late 2023 deadline, but the government bond insurer said most are already prepared, and it'll work with those who aren't.

However, a lower share of applications were rejected for Blacks, Hispanics and Asians, while whites had the smallest percentage change, a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report said.

The filing is the first joint action by the Federal Trade Commission and California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation to rely, in part, on the enforcement of the state's 2020 consumer protection law.

Banks including Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase have pulled back on financing for offices and other commercial real estate following a record burst of lending in the first half of this year. 

The Cincinnati bank's new division will lend to nonbanks that make or bundle together residential mortgage loans, whose businesses have slowed as higher interest rates lower appetite for refinancing. The warehouse sector has seen "fierce competition" among banks lately, one analyst wrote.

While several single-family indicators rose compared with July, homebuilder authorizations for new construction continued to lag.

Because the co-buyers own 100% of the property jointly, Pairadime is different than equity sharing firms like EquiFi, Hometap and Unison, which take a stake in the property in exchange for funds.