According to new data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) National Delinquency Survey, the delinquency rate for mortgages on one-to-four residential properties decreased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.11% of all outstanding loans at the end of the first ...

Buyers are exploring more options to find additional money in their budget due to intensifying cost pressures which is resulting in increased interest in buyers relocating to a different area.  New research from Realtor.com indicates that during the first quarter ...

Marking the largest increase in nearly 22 years, the Federal Open Market Committee raised interest rates by 50 basis points to a range of 0.75-1.00% amidst record-high inflation. The Fed will also allow $60 billion in Treasuries and $35 billion in MBS to roll off their balance sheet each month.

Don Layton, the current Senior Industry Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University—and former CEO of Freddie Mac—released a new column on the policymaking implications of record-high mortgage origination profits during the pandemic he authored after the ...

The investing spree for single-family homes seems to be slowing in the fourth quarter after hitting what appears to be peaks in the second and third quarters of 2021.  The share of homes purchased by investors reached its peak in ...

Black Knight Inc., has released the latest iteration of its Mortgage Monitor Report for March 2022 which looks at mounting affordability pressures resulting from the competing dynamics of rising interest rates and ever-increasing home prices.  According to Black Knight Data ...

According to the latest from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), pending home sales slipped 4.1% month-over-month in March, marking the fifth consecutive months of transaction decreases. Year-over-year, pending home sales dropped 8.2% in March, marking the tenth consecutive month ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created in 2010 as part of the Dodd-Frank Act, has invoked an unused portion of its legal power to examine nonbank financial companies that pose risks to consumers.  The CPFB believes that using this ...

Home sellers were earning a 4.4 percentage point profit on their sales in Q1, marking the largest drop since 2011.

According to the new data released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, it’s predicted that roughly 2.15 million mortgages are either in forbearance or past due, with an estimated 630,000 of those mortgages still in forbearance as of April ...