Mortgages

The Federal Housing Administration has accelerated the timeline and will make the wait time for repeat home retention requests longer than originally planned.

Robert Wagnon is retiring and sold his 75% share to long-time mortgage executive Andrina Valdes, while Paulina McGrath remains as co-owner and president.

Banks ceded their market share of home finance following the Great Recession. Will the current regulatory environment make them more involved players?

The highly volatile interest rate environment will actually result in higher refinance mortgage volume than previous forecast for 2025 and 2026.

US homebuilder confidence barely rose this month on a pickup in current sales, though demand expectations stumbled to a more than one-year low and prices of construction materials are climbing on the heels of higher tariffs. 

Starting April 22, mortgage brokers will be able to access Rocket Pro's loan pricing, interest rates and product eligibility, the company announced.

US mortgage rates jumped last week by the most since October on the back of heightened volatility in the Treasury market, causing a pullback in financing applications for home purchases and refinancing.

A bipartisan group of representatives co-sponsored the bill, aiming to make permanent and expand eligibility for a deduction previously offered for 14 years.

The potential impact of agentic AI on the mortgage industry's future lies in its ability to give human employees "superpowers," technology leaders say.

A majority expressed optimism of getting listing price or more, but a new survey also found the lock-in effect still weighing on the minds of potential sellers.