Home prices continue to climb both year-over-year and month-over-month, according to the October 2017 Home Price Index (HPI) released by CoreLogic Tuesday Morning. Nationally, prices increased by 7 ...
Read More »Jerome Powell Gains Senate Banking Committee Approval as Fed Chair
With the Senate Banking Committee's approval, Powell's nomination now heads to the full Senate for a vote, which is expected to meet little resistance.
Read More »FHFA: House Prices Remain on the Rise
The latest installment of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s House Price Index (HPI) reveals that rose 1.4 percent in Q3 2017, and were up 6.5 percent between Q3 ...
Read More »Household Debt and Its Hidden Costs
The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) reported a new telephone survey of 1,004 U.S. adults conducted by the Harris Poll—with results showing 73 percent of Americans living with ...
Read More »Defect Risk Simmers, Except in Hurricane-Damaged Markets
Chief Economist says the surge in defect, fraud, and misrepresentation risk in loan applications has come to a halt—except for in the areas impacted by recent natural disasters.
Read More »Tax Reform: What’s the Impact?
New data released Monday reported an in-depth look at the effect changes to the tax code could have on the housing and mortgage markets. Read all the details here.
Read More »Construction Builds on Previous Progress
Residential construction spending has been trending upwards in recent years, but is that holding true as we wind toward the end of 2017?
Read More »Black Knight’s LoanSphere Empower LOS Launches New Robotics Capabilities
Black Knight's new robotics capabilities can help lenders improve operational efficiencies and loan cycle times, as well as reduce loan origination costs.
Read More »Freddie Mac Board of Directors Elects Grace A. Huebscher
On November 27, Freddie Mac announced that Grace A. Huebscher was elected as a director on the company's board of directors. Huebscher, 57, is an executive with decades of experience ...
Read More »Former Bank of America Exec in as CMO at RateGravity
Mike Ma joins the Boston-based fintech startup after serving as an executive at both Bank of America and Betterment.
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