The Federal Housing Finance Agency recently released a Request for Input seeking feedback about the possibility of changing the credit scores the GSEs requires lenders to use to evaluate borrowers. According to ...
Read More »Homeownership, Vacancy Rates Flat Year-Over-Year
Both homeownership and homeowner vacancy rates were flat in year-over-year change during Q4 2017, according to the latest quarterly Residential Vacancies and Homeownership report released by the U.S. ...
Read More »Balancing Government Involvement and Private Capital in Housing
It’s been a decade since the housing bubble collapsed, sending shockwaves through the mortgage industry and creating economic impacts that are still being felt throughout the nation to ...
Read More »Pennsylvania to License Nonbank Lenders with New Law
Pennsylvania Secretary of Banking and Securities Robin L. Wiessmanntoday highlighted the benefits of Act 81 of 2017, which authorizes the Department of Banking and Securities to license and examine ...
Read More »Kenneth M. Goins, Jr. Joins IndiSoft as CFO
IndiSoft, a Columbia, Maryland-based technology development firm that specializes in systems for the financial services industry, has appointed Kenneth M. Goins, Jr. as the company’s CFO. Goins, working closely with ...
Read More »Delaware Metro Led Nation in November Home Price Growth
Dover, Delaware, must have been doing something right in November 2017—it led the nation that month when it came to growth in home prices. With an estimated population ...
Read More »U.S. Housing Has Regained $9 Trillion, But Not Evenly
The U.S. housing market weathered a crippling blow a decade ago. Now the valuation lost in the recession has been recovered. But not everyone is pulling the same weight.
Read More »Landmark President/COO Hunter Gorog Stepping Down
Landmark Network, Inc., a national appraisal management company, announced that President & COO Hunter Gorog has decided to leave the company after a successful eight-year tenure helping grow ...
Read More »The Economy’s Great—Why Is Housing a Problem?
Millennial buyers are in once of the best economies in decades, but they still can’t find houses to buy. And the problem isn’t a fondness for avocado toast.
Read More »Survey of U.S. Mayors Spotlights Housing Concerns
High housing costs are one of the chief factors driving people away from certain cities and into others—that’s according to the results of an annual survey that polls ...
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