Mortgages

Strong general unemployment gains, student loan deferrals and borrowers enjoying low interest rates secured in the refinance boom contributed to the positive gains.

With large banks establishing strong security infrastructure, cybercriminals are eyeing smaller and mid sized companies as their next victims.

Origination fees vs. origination charges can be one of the most confusing parts of a loan offer. Diving into the difference between the terms and why there is no uniformity in the industry can help borrowers understand the lending process better, writes the CEO of Confer.

A shortage of workers, sharp wage hikes and global supply chain challenges held the nationwide completion rate to just a 7% increase between 2019-21, according to LendingTree.

First American’s Real House Price Index showed a record increase, reflecting both elevated home prices and fast-rising interest rates.

The bank didn’t disclose which specific employees, or how many, were impacted by the announcement.

Allowing VantageScore to compete in the mainstream mortgage market may help to close the racial homeownership and financial wealth gap by increasing homeownership opportunities for underserved populations, writes the president and CEO of HomeFree-USA.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell outlined his most aggressive approach to taming inflation to date, potentially endorsing two or more half percentage-point interest-rate increases while describing the labor market as overheated.

With Digital Asset Registration Technologies, lenders can avoid duplication errors and riskier arrangements with multiple parties on the platform, its creators say.

The moves are the latest executive changes at the company since Chris Marshall moved up to president.

While numbers have been increasing, it will be some months before they get back to pre-pandemic levels, according to Attom Data Solutions.

The unexpectedly swift increase may dampen some of the home-buying demand seen in the past year.

In a new report, the Government Accountability Office issued a list of recommendations for the department’s Native American Direct Loan program, which has benefited less than a tenth of one percent of eligible U.S. borrowers in 10 years.

Federal housing funds are targeted at building more apartments, not promoting homeownership, which is essential to building intergenerational wealth. There's an easy fix lawmakers have long ignored.

The government-sponsored enterprise has already done twice as many of these deals as it did during all of 2021.

The lender and the home improvement retail chain will facilitate eligible borrowers paying for energy-efficient appliances using Federal Housing Administration loans.

This part of the city's market is still struggling to recover from the pandemic, lagging the frenzied overall housing market in speed and price appreciation.

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell in March to the lowest since June 2020 as historically low inventory paired with rising mortgage rates curbed purchases.

Moving towards bank-like capital standards for all independent mortgage banks that sell loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could limit consumer access to mortgage credit, writes Community Home Lenders Association executive director Scott Olson.