Quicken Loans, the company that first made waves on the national stage for its online mortgage platform during the 2016 Super Bowl ad, announced to that it has ...
Read More »ServiceLink’s President of Servicing Announces Retirement
Earlier today Robert J. Caruso, mortgage industry veteran and Division President of Servicing for ServiceLink, announced his retirement. During his time at ServiceLink, a premier national provider of ...
Read More »OCC: Amendment to Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a bulletin on Tuesday to publicize key fields—which examiners will use to validate the accuracy and reliability of ...
Read More »Home Values Disconnecting from Construction Costs
Issi Romem, Chief Economist at BuildZoom, released a study on Tuesday titled “Paying For Dirt: Where Have Home Values Detached From Construction Costs?” The study focuses on the ...
Read More »Top 5 Markets for Single-Family Housing
On Tuesday Ten-X, an online real estate transaction marketplace and the parent to Auction.com released its Top Single-Family Housing Markets Report for Fall 2017, covering the 50 largest ...
Read More »High Prices, Low Inventory: How are Home Sales Keeping Up?
On Monday, the October RE/MAX National Housing Report released, revealing that September marked the fifth month in 2017 to post a decline in home sales. Additionally, the reported ...
Read More »Top 10 Healthiest Housing Markets
On Monday, Housing Tides released its monthly housing research and analysis index, reporting that the national index score for market health fell to a value of 70.1 this ...
Read More »Wells Fargo and BofA Release Financial Results
On Friday, Wells Fargo and Bank of America released Q3 2017 financial results. Wells Fargo’s revenue dropped 2 percent—to $21.9 billion—compared to third quarter 2016. The bank noted ...
Read More »Ginnie Mae and VA Create Refinance Loan Task Force
Ginnie Mae and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently announced the shaping of the “Joint Ginnie Mae – VA Refinance Loan Task Force,” in an effort to ...
Read More »Mortgage Applications Experience Sharp Y-O-Y Decrease
According to new national data, mortgage applications for new homes dropped year-over-year. Regionally see which states took the hardest hit . . .
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