Jacksonville, Florida-based Black Knight Inc. announced today that Rushmore Loan Management Services LLC, a multi-faceted residential mortgage servicer and lender located in Irvine, California; Dallas, Texas; and San Juan, Puerto Rico, has signed a renewal agreement for LoanSphere MSP, Black ...
Read More »Report Questions Effectiveness of Fed’s Crisis-Era Purchases
A report presented Friday by economists at the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum questioned the effectiveness of the Federal Reserve’s asset purchases during the 2008 financial crisis. The conference is held annually at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, ...
Read More »Single-Family Rents Up Year-Over-Year
CoreLogic has released its latest Single-Family Rent Index (SFRI), with insights into the month of November 2017. As CoreLogic reports, national single-family rent prices were steadily on the upswing between 2010 and 2017, but with year-over-year rent price growth rate ...
Read More »Home Prices Decelerating in Luxury Markets
Since the 2008 financial crisis, predicting where the housing market is headed next has become a game with very high stakes indeed. Tracking the interactions between home prices, affordability, the impact of regulation (or deregulation), and a thousand other factors ...
Read More »Mortgage Delinquencies Dip, Foreclosure Starts Spike
Mortgage delinquencies dropped 8.6 percent between December and January, but remained up year-over-year, according to the latest First Look at January mortgage performance data from Black Knight, Inc. Black Knight cites calendar-related effects and a continued decrease in hurricane-related delinquencies ...
Read More »The Industry Pulse: Updates on Morningstar, CoreLogic, and More …
Which companies are merging, and what professionals are moving? See some highlights in this update of the housing and mortgage industries. Chicago-headquartered Morningstar Credit Ratings has announced the appointment of Brian Grow as President of the company. In his new ...
Read More »Wallison: Treasury Department Wrong on Regulation Approach
Former White House Counsel and Senior Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute Peter J. Wallison put in an appearance Thursday on CNBC’s The Santelli Exchange, where he criticized the U.S. Treasury Department’s recent approach to regulation ...
Read More »Fed Minutes: More Interest Rate Hikes Incoming
The minutes from the January meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee were released on Wednesday, showing Federal Reserve officials forecasting increased economic growth and inflation. Both factors led the Fed officials to stand firm on their plans to gradually ...
Read More »How Much Have Banks Been Fined Since the Crisis?
According to a tally released Tuesday by New York-based investment banking firm Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, banks have been fined $243 billion since the financial crisis in 2008. As reported by Marketwatch, repayment of the fines involves a mixture of ...
Read More »Supreme Court Rejects Appeal in GSE Profits Case
This week the United States Supreme Court rejected appeals in a case challenging the federal government’s handling of profits generated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac since they came under government control during the 2008 financial crisis. On Tuesday, the ...
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