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In the latest episode of DS5’s Inside the Industry, we speak with Candace Russell, VP of Post Sale at Carrington. She provides insight into the complexities of forbearance and how the industry has adapted to working remotely. “There’s some real ...

Kelly Conley, a 20-year veteran in the default servicing industry, the Founder and Principal of KAC Advisory, and contributor to DS News, among many other things, died unexpectedly on December 5. She was 47 years old. Kelly was a well-known ...

The government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) completed 539,451 foreclosure prevention actions during the third quarter of this year, according to new data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). The total number of GSE loans in forbearance plans totaled 1.04 million by ...

Households aged 65 and over are the fastest-growing demographic, according to data in the “State of the Nation’s Housing” report published by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS). The new report found the number of households aged 65 ...

It was a competitive November in the housing market—a new data report from Redfin found 53.6% of home offers written by the Seattle-headquartered brokerage’s agents nationwide were involved in a bidding war. Although November’s data was a decline from the ...

Just as clothes go in and out of fashion, so do real estate trends. 2020 saw its fair share of new ways to shop for homes, high levels of demand, and even a few myths busted, according to Zillow. Here ...

Real estate investors in the third quarter of 2020 have purchased and flipped 57,155 single-family homes and condominiums nationwide, according to the latest ATTOM Data Solutions Home Flipping Report. ATTOM researchers said that for the second consecutive quarter, the rate ...

Despite federal and local efforts to halt foreclosures and evictions during a global health crisis, losing a home has become a real threat facing millions of Americans, especially as preventative moratoria expire in December and January.  Several reports and publications ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in October, announced the final rule to restate and clarify prohibitions on harassment and abuse, false or misleading representations, and unfair practice by debt collectors when collecting consumer debt. But what, exactly, does it ...

First-time homebuyers were responsible for a total of 700,000 single-family home purchases during the third quarter of this year, according to new data from Genworth Mortgage Insurance. This marked a 15.7% increase from a year ago, and it also represented ...