Borrowers in owner-occupied homes are sitting on trillions worth of accessible home equity by today’s lending standards—but not all of the country's housing wealth is equally distributed, according ...
Read More »The MReport Webcast: Thursday 7/14/2016
While U.S. economists debate how a set of troubles playing out overseas will affect the American mortgage market, Kroll Bond Rating Agency predicts that these troubles will probably not bring ...
Read More »The MReport Webcast: Wednesday 7/13/2016
Home valuations across the country are on the rise, but so are homeowners’ perceptions of what their homes are worth—at a slightly higher pace. According to Quicken Loans’ Home ...
Read More »The MReport Webcast: Tuesday 7/12/2016
Low mortgage rates may be enticing new homebuyers, but Zillow reported Monday that not everyone is able to easily keep up with their payments. Zillow’s latest monthly analysis report found that ...
Read More »The MReport Webcast: Monday 7/11/2016
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 287 thousand jobs added in June, a far cry from May’s revised total of 11 thousand, which was the lowest total for ...
Read More »The MReport Webcast: Thursday 7/7/2016
With the announcements from Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, and Quicken Loans for non-Federal Housing Administration low-down payment programs, questions and thoughts have risen about the ...
Read More »The MReport Webcast: Wednesday 7/6/2016
Single-family house prices in May were up from April and from a year ago, and should steadily rise through next spring, according to the latest CoreLogic Home Price Insights ...
Read More »The MReport Webcast: Tuesday 7/5/2016
Ethical issues with mortgage applications dropped in May, continuing a years-long downswing, according to the latest First American Loan Application Defect Index. The index, which estimates the frequency ...
Read More »The MReport Webcast: Friday 7/1/2016
Fixed-rate mortgages are dropping in the wake of the U.K.’s Brexit vote, with 30-year FRMs hitting a three-year low this week. Thirty-year rates are, in fact, only 17 basis ...
Read More »The MReport Webcast: Thursday 6/30/2016
The nation’s housing market is on the outer range of its historical benchmark of housing activity while individual markets continue to slowly grind toward their historical benchmarks, according ...
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