Fewer and fewer residential mortgage borrowers are in negative equity these days.
Read More »Fannie Mae’s Mortgage Portfolio Shrinks Further
The UPB of Fannie Mae's gross mortgage portfolio has steadily contracted since falling below its 2016 peak early in the year.
Read More »Non-Conventional Financing Becoming More Popular
Non-conventional forms of financing have been gaining traction in the single-family housing market.
Read More »Private Mortgage Insurers Regaining Market Share
When it comes to comparing market share of PMI vs. FHA, it is beginning to look a lot like 2014.
Read More »Judge Throws Out Disparate Impact Case that Sparked Supreme Court Ruling
The housing advocacy group whose lawsuit sparked a controversial decision by the U.S. Supreme Court allowing disparate impact cases to be brought under the Fair Housing Act has now seen that lawsuit dismissed.
Read More »Home Prices Approaching New Peak
Having increased year-over-year every month for more than four years now, home prices are getting close to a new all-time high.
Read More »The Week Ahead: Which Way Will Pending Home Sales Go?
Tight inventory, affordability constraints, and uneven regional numbers had an adverse effect on pending home sales in June. The industry will find out how pending home sales fared in July when NAR publishes its report on Wednesday, August 31.
Read More »Yellen Speech Fuels September Rate Hike Speculation
Speculation is widespread in the industry that the Fed will raise short-term interest rates in September, and Fed Chair Janet Yellen's speech in Wyoming on Friday fanned those flames of speculation.
Read More »Housing Affordability Receives a Boost
With affordability becoming a major concern in many housing markets in the United States due to increasing price appreciation and low supply, house-buying power in the U.S. is receiving help from an unlikely source.
Read More »What is the Industry’s Hangup with eMortgages?
The demand for eMortgages is there, according to a survey conducted by the GSEs. So why has the industry been slow to adopt the eMortgage as the standard for originating a mortgage loan?
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