Florida-based OpenClose, a multi-channel loan origination system (LOS) and mortgage fintech provider, has announced the appointment of long-time industry veteran Tom Rice as VP, Enterprise Account Executive. Rice ...
Read More »Finicity Partners with Ellie Mae
Utah-based Finicity, a financial data aggregator specializing in credit decisioning, has announced an integration agreement with Ellie Mae, the cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry, to ...
Read More »The Week Ahead: Spotlight on Housing Prices
On Tuesday, S&P Dow Jones Indices will release the January data of the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Indices at 9 a.m. EST. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home ...
Read More »HUD Secretary Ben Carson to Speak at Government Forum
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Benjamin Carson, will address attendees at the 2018 Five Star Government Forum in Washington, D.C., on April 3. Now ...
Read More »Disrupting the Status Quo
Editor's note: This story was originally featured in the March issue of MReport, out now. Bitcoin has been all over the news this year, not only for its value that ...
Read More »The Price-Inventory Effect: New Home Sales Slip
New home sales fell 0.6 percent in February with 618,000 single-family homes sold during the month against the revised January rate of 622,000, according to the latest data ...
Read More »Housing in The Mountain Region is Heating up
Home prices in the Mountain region saw a 10 percent year over year rise between January 2017 and January 2018 according to the latest Home Price Index data ...
Read More »$42 Billion: HUD’s Budget for 2018
On Thursday, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Dr. Ben Carson testified before the Senate Banking Committee. "At HUD, we believe the requested level of funding–$42 ...
Read More »Mortgage Apps Decrease, Led by Refis
The mortgage rates, which are usually responsible for the rise or fall in mortgage applications, have remained stable for a few weeks now. Yet, mortgage apps decreased 1.1 ...
Read More »Existing Home Sales Spring Back
After two consecutive months of decline, existing-home sales rebounded in February rising 3 percent, according to the existing-home sales report released by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) ...
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