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With foreclosure starts being at their lowest level since 2000, Fannie Mae reports that the major drop in foreclosures can be tied to a number of economic factors, but the major reason is the jobs market.

Black Knight Financial Services, Inc. recently released the “first look” at July 2016 month-end mortgage performance statistics derived from its loan-level database representing the majority of the national mortgage market.

According to the last FHFA Home Price Index (HPI) report for May 2016, price appreciation slipped to a rate of 5.6 percent. What will the rate look like for this month's HPI?

Some states have issued laws to combat urban blight but these laws may present new and different challenges to servicers.

Amid a household debt increase of $35 billion in Q2 and the mortgage sector’s share of that debt declined from a huge spike in Q1, recently released data for Puerto Rico’s banking sector completes the picture of household debt for the Commonwealth.

Gene Sperling, a top economic advisor to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, recently said that housing will play an important role in a Clinton administration

Experts discuss the fixing and flipping market and the direction the market may turn when low inventory pressures home prices.

Housing industry experts make predictions for the default servicing industry in a new white paper from the Five Star Institute, "U.S. Residential Mortgage Default Performance Update & Market Analysis."

Unemployment dropped by 4,000 claims last week, though claims were still up slightly compared to a month prior, according to U.S. Department of Labor.

Julián Castro recently announced that HUD will quickly provide federal disaster assistance to Louisiana as well as provide support to homeowners and low-income renters forced from their homes due to severe storms and flooding.