The gap between the actual cap rate and the potential rate rose 0.4 percentage points since Q4 2021. Here's what else new data from First American reveals.
Read More »House Passes Measure to Modernize Remote Online Notarizations
Bipartisan House legislation seeks to modernize the notarization process, and will allow individuals stationed outside of the U.S. to securely notarize documents.
Read More »Fed Announces 75 Basis Point Interest Rate Hike
On March 14-15, 2020, the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) held an emergency meeting in light of the then-blossoming pandemic to cut rates by a 100 ...
Read More »New Treasury Department Measure Seeks to Boost Affordable Housing Supply
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has provided new guidance to increase investments in housing by utilizing American Rescue Plan funds to boost the nation’s supply of affordable options.
Read More »Fannie Mae Index Examines Refi App Activity
Fannie Mae’s new index provides two measures: volume of unpaid principal balance in dollars and a loan count. The RALI sources data from Fannie Mae’s Desktop Underwriter to show both the past week’s refinance application trends and prepayment projections.
Read More »Housing Experts Take to Capitol Hill to Address Affordability
A recent Senate Banking Committee hearing addressed the nation’s homeownership gap, and provided recommendations on how to mend a market in peril.
Read More »Younger Homeowners More Likely to Make Green Home Improvements
According to the latest Fannie Mae National Housing Survey, roughly half of homeowners aged 18-34 would be interested in making energy-efficiency improvements such as installing solar panels, while the share of these figures was much higher than the average level of interest across the general population of homeowners.
Read More »Firing Up Marketing Efforts as the Market Cools Down
Mortgage marketers are beginning to lean more heavily on lead providers to maintain volumes, but Rob Rokoff of Verisk Marketing Solutions explains that there are privacy and regulatory issues to navigate.
Read More »The Week Ahead: FHFA Takes Center Stage at House Committee Meeting
Testifying on Capitol Hill, FHFA Director Sandra L. Thompson will be discussing the impact of the Agency on the progress of equitable housing for all nationwide.
Read More »Mortgage Tech Update: Part II
Hybrid work-from-home models and consumer demand for slick apps and digital self-service have turned the way the industry does business upside down. MReport assembled a panel of experts to discuss how the mortgage sector is working to keep up with both homebuyer and internal team demands in the second part of this two-part series.
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