Nationwide mortgage lender welcomes back Eric Skates as Chief People Officer and announces the promotion of Shalanda Dixon as Chief of Staff.
Read More »Closing Costs Keep Pace With Home Prices and Purchase Volumes
CoreLogic’s ClosingCorp has released its most recent Purchase Mortgage Closing Cost Report, showing the national average for mortgage closing costs for a single-family property in 2021 was $6,905, ...
Read More »The Week Ahead: Steps Toward a More Diverse Future
Five Star’s 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Symposium is an event designed to advance the diversity conversation within the mortgage marketplace through critical dialogue among the top D&I experts in the field.
Read More »Sprout Mortgage Names Vincent Daino Senior VP of Strategic Relationships
Sprout Mortgage has announced the hiring of Vincent Daino as Senior VP of Strategic Relationships. In his new role, Daino will focus on growing and overseeing the company's ...
Read More »Housing Inventory Down 22% From Last Year
Rapidly rising mortgage rates are worsening affordability challenges that have been brought on by record home value growth. According to the March Zillow Real Estate Market Report, monthly ...
Read More »Fannie Mae Downgrades Expectations for Economic Growth
According to the April 2022 commentary from the Fannie Mae Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group, expectations of aggressive monetary policy tightening through 2023 by the Federal Reserve ...
Read More »Rates Rise for Seventh Straight Week
The spring is generally a prime season for house buying, however the recent upswing in mortgage rates has caused some volatility in demand.
Read More »Flagstar Names Jim Linnane President of Distributed Retail Mortgage
Flagstar Bank has named Jim Linnane President of Flagstar's Distributed Retail Mortgage division. In this role, he will be responsible for strategy, profitability, sales, growth, recruitment, and operations ...
Read More »Achieving Customer Satisfaction Through Mortgage Lending Technology
An upcoming webinar will key in on what the industry can do to meet consumer demand amidst current economic landscape and changing customer expectations.
Read More »Mortgage App Volume Continues to Slide
With mortgage rates hitting the 5%-mark, potential buyers have tapped the brakes on home purchases as application volume dives yet again.
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