Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced higher loan limits for 2021. The guidelines apply to the administration's Single Family Title II forward and Home Equity Conversion (reverse) Mortgage insurance ...
Read More »Mortgage Industry Leaders Discuss Leveraging Tech, Tools, and People
The latest addition to the MReport Webinar Series, “Leveraging Tech, Tools & People: Finding Balance in Capacity Management,” went live today and featured insights from three mortgage industry ...
Read More »Household Formation Rates Falter Amid COVID-19
Americans are forming households at lower rates than before the Great Recession, according to new data published by Zillow. This development, which spans all age and racial/ethnic demographics, ...
Read More »Status Updates From Fannie and Freddie
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac released monthly summary reports covering October. The reports contain information about the GSEs' monthly and year-to-date activities related to gross mortgage portfolios; mortgage-backed ...
Read More »Navigating the ‘Extremely Complicated’ World of Bankruptcy
In this week’s special extended edition of DS5: Inside the Industry, BK Global CEO Brad Geisen discusses the challenges his industry might face in the coming years including ...
Read More »Finding Your Footing
Editor's note: This story originally appeared in the November edition of MReport. We sat down with Jeffrey Tesch, CEO of RCN Capital, to discuss the impact of ...
Read More »Single-Family Homes Selling at Prices 17% Above Condos
According to a new analysis from Redfin, the typical American single-family home that sold this year went for an average price that was 17.3% more than the typical ...
Read More »Why Have Pending Home Sales Declined?
The National Association for Realtors (NAR) released its latest Pending Home Sales Index for October today, showing that pending home sales experienced a slight decline in last month, ...
Read More »The Safest Cities to Live in 2020
2020 has posed new safety concerns across the country—from spikes in COVID-19 cases, to recent wildfires, storms, and other natural disasters. Still, problems like crime and financial safety ...
Read More »Janet Yellen: ‘We Must Restore the American Dream’
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday officially nominated former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen as his Treasury Secretary. This is a confirmation of news reported here last week. Biden-Harris' economics-team ...
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