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As the industry makes strides to increase homeownership for marginalized individuals, the mortgage finance space must keep pace to meet the needs of this group by enhancing its DEI efforts.

In the world of cybercrimes, the effective execution and deployment of technology, people, and processes are the first steps in building a culture of information security.

Subject matter experts from Mr. Cooper, Richey May, Sagent, and The Basis Point discuss the health of America's $12 trillion mortgage servicing industry, asking, “Are we in a golden age of mortgage servicing?”

Freddie Mac’s Single-Family business announced that its Credit Risk Transfer (CRT) program reported Q2 2022 CRT issuance of approximately $6.5 billion, protecting approximately $151 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) of single-family mortgages. The final total was a record for a second ...

Fitch Ratings says the likelihood of a severe downturn in US housing has increased; however, their rating case scenario provides for a more moderate pullback that includes a mid-single-digit decline in housing activity in 2023, and further pressure in 2024. ...

For many, when it rains, it pours, and many new and young adults got dealt a bad hand at the outset of the pandemic, when lockdowns eliminated many of their service-related jobs, drained their savings, and ultimately forced them to ...

A new report from Redfin found that nearly $17 trillion worth of homes, consisting of nearly 25 million properties, experienced intense drought conditions in August, up 42% year-over-year.

According to a new Realtor.com survey, some 92% of people who sold their home within the last year accepted some buyer-friendly terms, and approximately 41% accepted some contingencies in the contract. Additionally, among those surveyed, the number of buyers asking for ...

Citing recent data from First American Data & Analytics, investor purchases of residential homes as rental properties as a share of all residential home sales, have increased sharply over the course of the last year.  This number has risen from ...

In the month of June, housing markets in the Western U.S. began to show signs of slowing, as S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller data found a 1.9% overall month-over-month slide in the price of houses across the U.S.