Mortgages

The National Association of Realtors' vice president of demographics and behavioral insights offers a few predictions ahead of what is typically real estate's busiest season.

United Wholesale Mortgage’s litigation could prompt regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission, to examine the contract that bars third-party originators from doing business with Rocket and Fairway.

Compounding factors of low inventory and high costs also helped lead to another decline in Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index.

The company said the bond issue is the largest ever seen in this asset class and was boosted by rising home values.

The Lansing, Michigan-based company will handle the required functions on recently originated loans until they are sold in the secondary market.

An uptick in pandemic-related payment suspensions reflecting new or restarted plan activity previously occurred as the omicron variant spread, but activity has since subsided.

Pretax income in the servicing segment outpaced its loan production unit in the fourth quarter, as the company launches new branding initiatives.

Employment numbers suggest that interest in home purchases is bearing up well despite some limits on consumer spending and normalization in the mortgage market after two banner years.

Zip codes with the biggest share of children under 18 saw faster increases in house prices about two-thirds of the time, a Zillow study found.

Using stimulus checks and money saved from lower spending were each cited by just under one-quarter of those looking to buy in the next 12 months, a Redfin survey found.

This regulatory development is both good news and bad news, depending upon where you happen to sit in the mortgage process.

The government-sponsored enterprise is following through on resolving some temporary policies put in place to address contingencies around the coronavirus while unwinding others.

The firm enters the flourishing investment space backed by the industry’s biggest player and offers consumers multiple paths toward homeownership.

But the company was able to increase the share of its top line that came from recurring income streams while minimizing the impact of more volatile transactional-based ones.

But the current lack of movement is likely only a temporary reprieve, according to Freddie Mac.

Tech firm TerraZero has begun to help creators find and secure the finite land available in the decentralized virtual worlds. CEO Dan Reitzik answers a few of our burning questions about it.

If approved, the new loan would unlock $120 million in badly needed funds for the sprawling Bronx multifamily complex.

The moves, which are part of a multiyear strategy, are meant to focus resources in areas where the Spanish banking giant can earn solid returns.

The number of credit-sensitive borrowers who request alterations in their loan terms for income reduction could be a bellwether for loan performance as pandemic-related contingencies are rolled back.

Competing against similarly sized lenders in the channel was like battling in the octagon, said founder Jamie Thornton.