The meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)—the policy-making arm of the Federal Reserve begins today. This is also the first time that the meeting is being ...
Read More »Fannie Mae: Housing Market Headwinds are Temporary
The housing market might have had a rough start to the year, but according to Fannie Mae’s Economic and Housing Outlook released on Monday, this quarter seems to ...
Read More »LenderLive Promotes Ian Morgan
LenderLive Holdings, Inc., a mortgage services provider based in Denver, that Ian Morgan has been promoted to Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
Read More »Homes for Sale: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
If there’s a home on the market stuffed with to-die-for features, it’s probably not going to last long, according to the latest Nationwide Health of Housing Markets (HoHM) ...
Read More »Are Nonbanks Susceptible to Liquidity Vulnerabilities?
Nonbanks originated about half of all mortgages in 2016 and 75 percent of mortgages insured by the FHA or VA. However, a recent study by the Brookings Institution ...
Read More »The Ups and Downs of Housing Values
Home prices in February hit a four-year high, capping a 72-month run in which median home values rose nationally, according to a report by Redfin. But just because ...
Read More »The Week Ahead: Gauging Existing Home Sales
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) will publish the data on the sale of existing homes for February, on Wednesday, March 21, at 10 a.m. EST. The monthly ...
Read More »Starts are Down, But not the Housing Market
Housing starts were down 7 percent month over month according to the data for February released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Housing starts were at around 1.23 million ...
Read More »Promoting and Protecting Homeownership
It’s been a decade since the housing crisis of 2008. As the present administration looks at rolling back some of the more stringent regulations that were introduced during ...
Read More »“Transparency and Accountability”: HUD Working to Streamline Processes
On Thursday, HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson announced new measures to protect the financial integrity of the department. "We simply need to do better. An updated system of internal controls ...
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