Nearly all of those credit risk transactions conducted by the GSEs have been of the back-end variety, however, that changed on Monday, when Freddie Mac announced a new pilot front-end credit risk transfer offering, Freddie Mac Deep MI CRT.
Read More »Delinquencies Decline But Remain High Relative to 2000s
The Urban Institute’s September 2016 Chartbook shows that serious delinquencies and foreclosures continue to decline with the housing recovery, but remain quite high relative to the early 2000s.
Read More »Black Knight Reports Increase In Home Prices for July
The Data & Analytics division of Black Knight Financial Services, Inc. recently released its latest Home Price Index (HPI) report state that home prices increased in July month over month and year over year.
Read More »FHA Permits PACE-Assessed Properties
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs debate is heating up with the FHA announcement permitting FHA-insured mortgages on some PACE-assessed properties.
Read More »The Week Ahead: Is Home Price Appreciation Slowing?
New single-family home sales took a notable upturn in July, with the month becoming the best month for new sales since 2007, according to HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau.
Read More »Six Servicers to Speak at Affinity Management Symposium
Affinity Consulting Group announces The Servicer Panel at the 3rd Annual Management Symposium this year boasts an esteemed lineup of industry experts.
Read More »Refining the Servicing Sector
DS News speaks with Michael Waldron about the current trends being seen in the servicing sector of the industry as well as his thoughts on how well the CFPB is working with comments from servicers on the new servicing updates.
Read More »Home Values Rise Higher in August
For the 49th month in a row, the median U.S. home value rose year-over-year in August, according to Zillow’s August Real Estate Market Report.
Read More »Are Seller’s Still Calling the Shots in the Housing Market?
Despite strong sales and shrinking inventory, the recent Redfin Housing Market Tracker states that home prices rose at the slowest pace of the year.
Read More »Treasury’s CDFI Fund Announces 2016 Awardees
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund awarded 32 organizations for the development of affordable housing and community facilities in low-income communities.
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