Gateway First Bank has promoted Jeff Schmidt to a new role of managing its mortgage operations. In his role as Chief Mortgage Operations Officer, Schmidt will manage ...

The Home Buying Institute’s latest analysis of the housing market moving forward predicts that home prices will continue their ascent for the rest of the year and into ...

In the same period of time where the value of the U.S. housing market has reached an all-time high, the amount of homeowners with mortgages is falling. What is causing the shift?

For the first time, the annual growth rate in home sales to first-time buyers under performed the single-family housing market, as first-time buyers purchased 4% fewer homes in ...

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that existing home sales rose 2.5% in July and are up 0.6% from last year.  “Falling mortgage rates are improving housing ...

Ellie Mae’s July Origination Insight Report found that the 30-year mortgage dropped for the seventh-consecutive month to 4.18% The drop from the prior month’s 4.40% also led an ...

Is having debt a good thing? A new study by LendingTree found a correlation between mortgage debt and life expectancy, as higher debt relative to income is linked ...

First American Financial Corporation is reporting that tenure length has increased year-over-year by 11% in July and has caused the loss of nearly 450,000 potential home sales—a monthly ...

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reports that the size of single-family homes during Q2 2019 declined.  The NAHB, with data from the Census Bureau’s Quarterly Starts ...

Metros in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania are among the most affordable. How much do you need to make, though, to live on the West Coast?