While home prices are still rising due to buyer demand and low inventories, supported by low mortgage rates, eased lending standards, and improving job markets, they are doing so at a much slower pace.
Read More »The Mortgage Collective Expands Offerings to Include Solutions Group
As new challenges arise, additional companies will have the opportunity to join the Solutions Group and participate in helping create the next generation of customized industry services.
Read More »Where Investors Can Get the Most and Least Return for SFR Properties
Single-family rental investors saw have seen major growth over the last year in terms of income and appreciation in housing markets across the U.S. See which housing markets offer the most and least favorable cap rates on single-family rental homes for investors.
Read More »Existing-Home Sales on Solid Footing to Start 2016
After suffering a major drop in November 2015 and recovering with the largest monthly increase ever recorded in December, existing-home sales seem to have found their balance to start the new year.
Read More »3 Ways Lenders Can Improve Appraisal Compliance Operations
In the heavily-regulated mortgage environment we live in, appraisal compliance can easily become another tasks on a long list. Janice Buchele, SVP of Residential Operations at The William Fall Group explains how lenders can ensure that they are paying close attention to compliance efforts in appraisal operations.
Read More »Are New Homebuyers Feeling the Effects of TRID?
Over five months after the implementation of the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure rule, first-time buyers are still enduring its consequences with closing delays on home purchases. See what analysts believe will happen after the TRID backlog subsides.
Read More »Lenders: Automate and Innovate Before it’s Too Late
In a world where “time is money,” and lenders have much to lose when income and asset verification go wrong, automated verifications are the only viable solution. Editor's note: This select print feature appears in the February 2016 edition of MReport magazine, available now.
Read More »BofA: Charting the Future of Responsible Lending
In a discussion with MReport, Bank of America's Terry Francisco explains how the financial institution is opening up new homeownership opportunities for responsible consumers.
Read More »Tough Road to Travel for First Time Homebuyers
First-time homebuyers have more problems to face than just dwindling supply and higher demand: Income requirements for mortgage lending are also on the rise.
Read More »The Week Ahead: Will Existing Home Sales Find Their Balance?
Expect to see an influx of industry news in the last full week of February, including the highly-anticipated existing-home sales report from the National Association of Realtors. The last two reports on existing sales for November and December were hot and cold. Now, the industry is wondering what January's report will reveal.
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