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Author Archives: Christina Hughes Babb

Christina Hughes Babb is a reporter for DS News and MReport. A graduate of Southern Methodist University, she has been a reporter, editor, and publisher in the Dallas area for more than 15 years. During her 10 years at Advocate Media and Dallas Magazine, she published thousands of articles covering local politics, real estate, development, crime, the arts, entertainment, and human interest, among other topics. She has won two national Mayborn School of Journalism Ten Spurs awards for nonfiction, and has penned pieces for Texas Monthly, Salon.com, Dallas Observer, Edible, and the Dallas Morning News, among others. Contact Christina at [email protected].

Nonprofit Calls on Policymakers to ‘Act Now for Housing’

About 30-40 million American homeowners and renters face foreclosure or bankruptcy and loss of housing when protective moratoria expire December 31, studies show. The global nonprofit Habitat for Humanity is demanding that Congress return to Washington D.C. as soon as ...

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Uncertainty Presents Risk to Mortgage Investors

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The uncertainty of the presidential election—however long that lasts—is bound to incite interest rate volatility, something that presents a peril to the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market, according to Christopher Maloney, a market strategist and former portfolio manager who writes for ...

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‘Shaky’ Economy Hasn’t Slowed Rise in Home Equity

Of the 58.9 million mortgaged homes in the United States, 16.7 million considered equity-rich, meaning that the combined estimated amount of loans secured by those properties was less than 50% of their estimated market value, according to ATTOM Data Solutions' ...

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The Politics of Housing: Market Metrics Across the Nation

Experts in the housing industry have offered varied opinions about the election outcome—which, at the time of publication, is uncertain—and how it might impact the housing market, lenders, and property owners. Financial Times posted an Election Day report about how ...

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9.9 Million Americans May Miss Housing Payments

On the cusp of November, the United States Census Household Pulse Survey, which deploys real-time data on a range of ways in which people’s lives have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, showed some 9.9 million Americans had little to ...

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The Week Ahead: The FHA Offers CWCOT Guidance

Next week, on Wednesday, November 4, the FHA via a complimentary webinar will offer guidance on the Claims Without Conveyance of Title (CWCOT) program "in which the mortgagee attempts to secure a third-party purchaser for the mortgaged property so that ...

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DS5: ‘Leveraging Technology’ in the Housing Industry

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In this week's episode of DS5: Inside the Industry, the show is joined by Richard Ferguson, President of CBC Mortgage Company. Ferguson, who runs the company's Chenoa Fund, discussed how his company is "leveraging technology," especially during these quickly changing times. ...

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Forbearance Activity Tracker Shows Uptick

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Forbearance activities rose by 1% this past week, says researchers at Black Knight, which tracks forbearances by the week. "We saw the number of mortgages in active forbearance rise by 31,000," they said. "This increase was driven by limited extension ...

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A Snapshot of FHFA’s Affordable Housing Goals

The FHFA released its Annual Housing Report Friday. It outlines Freddie Mac's and Fannie Mae's 2019 affordable housing activities, fulfilling a requirement of 1992's Safety and Soundness Act, and more. To put it all in context, the report showed that ...

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