Investment

Home equity hit a new high in the second quarter according to CoreLogic, as homeowners with mortgages gained a collective $3.6 billion year-over-year over the course of a single quarter.  According to CoreLogic’s Homeowner Equity Report, homeowners with mortgages (which ...

Fannie Mae’s Jacob Williamson discusses how the GSE’s REO repair strategy focuses on innovative solutions to help support the repair and upkeep of properties nationwide.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced the availability of $40 million through the Healthy Homes Production Grant Program to help transform communities by fixing older housing, preserving affordable housing, and improving communities and the health ...

COVID-19 presented mortgage servicers with a new challenge, creating and executing new customer solutions, while managing the impact of the pandemic on their own workforce.

As part of September’s Five Star Conference in Dallas, the Property Preservation Lab brings together individuals to discuss the challenges currently faced, while offering solutions to continue the prevention of urban blight.

The upcoming Five Star Conference in Dallas will offer a session focused on the foreclosure space, how to prepare for increased volume, the impact firms may experience on workflow and hiring, and much more.

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?”

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 ...

An upcoming Five Star Institute webinar will discuss the industry’s usage of a national digital signing platform, as the nation’s mortgage industry continues to push the digital envelope.

The Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), which measures housing contract activity, again fell in July, the second month in a row and the eighth time it has fallen this year. In addition, three out of the four major regions in ...