Foreclosure activity, up 98% year-over-year in November, “declined from last month, and lenders often put a moratorium on foreclosures during the holiday season,” according to ATTOM’s EVP of Market Intelligence, Rick Sharga.
Read More »Rental Relief: Rents Grow at Slowest Pace in 18 Months
Despite the decline in rental costs nationwide, affordability remains a concern among most tenants.
Read More »Q2 Mortgage App Fraud Slips
CoreLogic reports second quarter fraud risk is down from the previous quarter, and Q2 2021; however, an analysis of monthly data shows this trend is reversing, and fraud risk is anticipated to increase in the coming months.
Read More »Top SFR Trends of the Past Decade
Visio Lending CEO Jeff Ball reflects on some of the top innovations the single-family rental marketplace has experienced in recent years, as well as what lies beyond.
Read More »Gain in March Housing Starts Driven by Uptick in Construction
Led by a double-digit gain in multifamily activity, housing permits rose 0.4% from February, and were 6.7% higher year-over-year.
Read More »Servicers Open the Lines of Communication
Michael Merritt of BOK Financial sat down with DS News to explain how the lessons learned from the financial crisis of 2008 smoothed a path of communication between servicers and their clients during the pandemic.
Read More »Economists Find Millennials Will Drive Housing Market in ’22
As more than 45 million millennials enter the prime first-time buying ages of 26-35, the year 2022 will present several opportunities, despite expected a rise in rates and a recovering inventory.
Read More »Homeowner Engagement Vital to Forbearance Crisis
John Dunnery of Community Loan Servicing found that the servicing sector took lessons from the past and employed them to deal with the pandemic. He shares his thoughts in an exclusive chat with DS News.
Read More »Median Rental Prices Rise 13.6% YoY in September
Rent growth surpassed pre-COVID levels in some of the nation’s tech centers, hitting a new average high of $1,654 to end Q3.
Read More »The Week Ahead: Will Unemployment Uptick Slow Forbearance Exits?
The recent rise in Covid variant cases is again impacting the nation’s job force, with recent forbearance exits slowing their pace.
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