In a pilot program announced last week, the Biden administration cleared the way for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to let some homeowners refinance mortgages without paying for title insurance
California Housing Finance Agency to use lottery system to allocate $220M in 'Dream for All' shared appreciation loans that cover down payments for eligible first-time homebuyers
The set of new housing initiatives also includes a 1-year tax credit of up to $10K to households that sell their starter home. NAR applauded the president's commitment to aiding the industry
Purchase loan applications jump by a seasonally adjusted 11% after 5 consecutive weeks of declines as mortgage rates continue to retreat from 2024 highs
Integrations helped the income and employment data provider grow its mortgage customer base and attract backing from Rockefeller Asset Management’s Fintech Innovation Fund
Worries about commercial real estate are making jumbo mortgages costlier, since regional banks are a major provider of loans that are too big for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
In December, a Pulsenomics panel of more than 100 housing experts expected homes to appreciate by 2.4% in 2024. Now they're predicting prices will go up by 3.8%
'Quantitative tightening' — the Federal Reserve's moves to trim $35B in mortgages from its balance sheet each month — could keep mortgage rates from falling dramatically this year
Fannie and Freddie's federal regulator wants lenders to synchronize adoption of bi-merge credit reporting with more inclusive FICO Score 10T and VantageScore 4.0 scoring models
A key Fed inflation metric, the PCE price index, continues to drop toward the Fed's 2% inflation target, falling from 2.6% annual growth in December to 2.4% in January
Nation's biggest mortgage lender posts first annual loss since going public in 2020, largely driven by an $854.1M write-down in the value of UWM's $300B mortgage servicing rights portfolio
With mortgage rates hovering above 7%, requests for purchase loans were down by a seasonally adjusted 5% week over week and 2% lower than a year ago, MBA lender survey finds
Hit by lawsuits, the lender is offering 24 months of free identity protection services and credit monitoring from Experian to 16.9M consumers affected by the January cyberattack
Kiavi upsizes its 16th securitization to $350M and says oversubscribed offering is company's biggest since November 2021, bringing total issuance since 2019 to $4B
Second Century Ventures and Foundry Venture Capital have backed the company with $10M. Knock is now turning to public funding site Wefunder to get to $15M
Approximately 28% of brokerage leaders believe 'recruiting and retaining talent' will be their most challenging responsibility 1 year from now, according to results from the Inman Intel Index survey