Researchers determined the top-three most relevant real estate propensities to emerge during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, and predict which patterns will stick in the long term.
Read More »The Increasing Popularity of Virtual Home Tours
“Live-video home tours have gone from futuristic fantasy to an everyday part of the homebuying process,” according to real estate experts.
Read More »Fitch Ratings on Servicer Performance: ‘It Showed Resilience’
Bank servicers experienced a modest decline of about 6% in active forbearance agreements as a percentage of all loss mitigation plans while non-bank servicers reported a decline of about 10%—that's one takeaway from the Q3 U.S. RMBS Servicer Metric Report ...
Read More »DS5: Adjusting to Modern Property Preservation Challenges
In this week’s episode of DS5: Inside the Industry, Joe Iafigliola, CFO of Safeguard Properties, discussed how Safeguard has adjusted to the challenges of the past year, and what he expects the property preservation sector to look like in coming ...
Read More »What Will Housing Trends Look Like After COVID-19 Vaccines?
Expect the housing market in 2021 to "settle somewhere in between where we were before COVID and where we were during COVID," says Danielle Hale, Chief Economist for Realtor.com's recent article entitled, "How the Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines Could Help, ...
Read More »How the Pandemic Impacted Interest in SFR Investing
All manner of the economy and industry has changed as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. A January article in Architectural Digest explores how the pandemic inadvertently has prompted an increasing interest in single-family rental investing. Interest rates in 2020 ...
Read More »Report Reflects a ‘Troubling Slowdown’ for Forbearance Improvement
The percentage of mortgage loans in forbearance programs dipped by -3%, or 92,000 actual loans, for the week ending January 5, according to a weekly report from Black Knight. That is the largest weekly drop since early November, Black Knight ...
Read More »Migration, Low Rates Make Homeownership Attainable
While house prices are rising in a robust market, low interest rates are making homeownership more affordable than it was 20 years ago, according to the winter edition of "The Housing and Mortgage Market Review (HaMMR)," released Thursday by Arch ...
Read More »Long-Term Unemployment Numbers Concern Economists
The employment report for December 2020 showed a loss of 140,000 jobs in December, the first decline since April, according to Friday's Employment Situation Summary from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, retail trade, ...
Read More »The Industry Pulse: Milestones and Moves at Major Organizations
In recent weeks, both The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and BSI Financial Services have undergone staffing changes and anniversaries. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced, in a press release, the addition of both a Deputy Chief of Staff and ...
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