Mortgages

For years, there has been an expectation that markets and governments would figure out how to provide enough incentives for homeowners to make energy efficiency upgrades and environmental improvements. It hasn't happened yet.

Rates are forecasted to remain at the current low levels for the rest of 2020, driving steady refinance volume.

The company is competing with consumers looking for more space aided by record low mortgage rates.

For 32 years, the Bay Area city of Sausalito has used strict zoning restrictions to protect its scrappy industrial waterfront, banning both housing and offices in the 225-acre Marinship district, which stretches for about a mile north of downtown.

Housing prices continued to grow in June, maintaining a streak in monthly increases that began in February 2012. But the trend could be reversed in 2021 with the resurgent effects of the coronavirus, according to CoreLogic.

PREIT, which owns a number of large malls, is trimming the salaries of its CEO and chief financial officer while suspending dividend payments as part of a deal with its lenders to stave off default as the coronavirus pandemic continues to take its toll on the troubled company.

After a floundering start to the summer home-buying season, record-low mortgage rates helped make July one of the best in several years for homebuilders in the Twin Cities metro.

Southern California homebuilders slashed construction plans as coronavirus hammered the economy.

The mortgage servicing rights package going up for bid adds to signs that the market for large offerings is becoming more active.

The number of loans going into coronavirus-related forbearance fell for the seventh straight week, but the Mortgage Bankers Association predicts the rate will increase if the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise.

Louisiana ranks second in the nation in the percentage of homeowners who are late on their mortgage payments, according to Black Knight.

The size of the decline depends on how bad the economy sinks and if the coronavirus spread is halted.

Record-low interest rates allowed homebuyers to purchase $32,000 more house for the same monthly payment compared to last July, boosting affordability to the highest level since 2016.

The year-over-year increase came as homebuying picked up and the company's mortgage lending business boomed.

Florida’s favorable tax laws have long been a draw for high-net-worth individuals, but the pandemic’s disruptions — to work, school, public safety and northern states’ budgets — have increased the allure, pushing many of the wealthiest to finally make good on aspirations to relocate.

With low inventory and coronavirus limiting accessibility, nearly half of shoppers made offers sight-unseen in June, according to Redfin.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused home sales to fall this year in more than two-thirds of Dallas-area neighborhoods.

Wyoming's average home price has risen nearly 10% since early last year, marking the fastest rate of increase in the state's real estate valuations since the third quarter of 2007.

The company's servicing segment recorded a pretax loss of $251 million over the period.

Even with the second quarter's market disruption, Redwood Trust still regained profitability.