Mortgage rates have more than doubled from the beginning of the year and homebuyers facing affordability challenges are increasingly turning to adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) to reduce their monthly payments. The latest weekly survey data from […]
Profit margins on median-priced single-family and condo sales across the U.S. decreased to 54.6% in the third quarter, according to a new report from real estate data company ATTOM. This is the first decline in […]
Online bank Ally Financial recorded a $136 million impairment related to its investment in struggling digital mortgage lender Better.com, bank executives said Wednesday during the company’s third-quarter earnings call. The bank disclosed to shareholders and […]
Source: Real Trends — The state of our current housing market is creating the need for sometimes challenging real estate questions between Realtors and clients. Twenty-five to 75% of all agents are new to the […]
Fitch Ratings in October 2022 set negative outlooks for four nonbank mortgage lenders. Credit rating agency Fitch this week revised the long-term issuer default ratings (IDRs) for five nonbank residential mortgage lenders based on their […]
The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found this week that the funding source for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is unconstitutional, according to a decision reached by a three-judge panel. The panel found […]
Real estate tech firm Voxtur Analytics Corp. on Wednesday announced that it has released an Attorney Opinion Letter (AOL) product for VA direct and VA-backed home loans as a compliant alternative to title insurance. Voxtur […]
Mortgage demand continued its downward trend last week, reaching the lowest level in 25 years, according to the latest survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). That indicates lenders may still face substantial declines in their origination […]
As mortgage rates rose to nearly 7% and builder sentiment dipped to painfully low levels in September, housing starts also declined, dropping 8.1% from August, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.564 million, according […]
Optimal Blue, a division of Black Knight, launched its first hedging and trading platform CompassEdge, unifying its existing risk management and loan sale platform CompassPoint within a single system. CompassEdge is designed to support every […]
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