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As the housing market continues to adapt to unprecedented demand as digitization becomes the norm, 81% of borrowers still prefer an in-person closing over a digital one.  This data comes from Solidifi U.S. Inc. (Solidifi), a network management services provider for the residential lending industry, who surveyed over 1,000 borrowers who refinanced ...

Sagent’s Dan Sogorka looks at modernizing servicing technology and plotting out a new infrastructure to keep ahead of where consumer finance and capital markets are headed (Sponsored Content).

As the market expected, the number of active forbearance cases significantly decreased for the second week in a row as the first wave of final plan expirations continues.  According to Black Knight’s McDash Flash daily forebarance tracking dataset, active plans fell by another 10%, for an overall reduction of 143,000 since ...

In its latest forecast, the GSE predicts a short-term tightening of the Federal Reserve’s policies and an interest rate hike in late 2022.

Redfin reports that while the average rent payment was up 11% in September. Mortgage payments for new homebuyers kept pace, rising 15%.

A Senate Committee will examine a panel of experts on the repercussions of the rise in private equity money in the housing market from Wall Street firms. Here’s what else is happening in The Week Ahead.

Subject-matter experts who attended this year’s Five Star Conference break down the trends and challenges they are facing as we approach 2022.

The first bits of foreclosure data are starting to come through after the federal government’s foreclosure moratorium expired July 31 and the numbers are not as bad as some experts were predicting at the start of the moratorium.  ATTOM, a real-estate data company, released its Q3 2021 U.S. Foreclosure ...

DS News digs deeper into a recent California Court of Appeals finding could give loan servicers the ability to “clean up” any violations before going to sale.

Younger buyers are comprising a smaller share of the market than in previous years, as first-time home shoppers are being ousted by demand from repeat baby boomer buyers.