This month marks the two-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic, which the World Health Organization officially declared on March 11, 2020. According to a new report from Redfin, ...
Read More »A New Era for Desktop Appraisals
The GSEs’ recent switch to allow for desktop appraisals could usher in “a new area for collateral valuation.”
Read More »Zeenat Sidi Tapped to Lead loanDepot’s New mello Unit
Fintech vet with more than 25 years of experience to serve as President and COO of new mello operating unit, which will complement loanDepot’s mortgage and servicing operations platform.
Read More »Underwater Mortgages Drop to Lowest Level in Over a Decade
CoreLogic released the Homeowner Equity Report for Q4 of 2021, showing U.S. homeowners with mortgages experienced an increase in equity by 29.3% year-over-year. This number represents an overall ...
Read More »Inflation, Interest Rates, and Military Conflict Weigh on Lenders
Continuing a quarterly survey of mortgage executives that initially started in 2014, Fannie Mae has published its latest Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey for the first quarter of 2022 ...
Read More »Paul Hurst Named First American’s Chief Innovation Officer
Venture and tech exec assumes new role focused on enhancing First American through strategic investments, partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions.
Read More »Navigating the Modern Tech Stack
With so many options available, Leah Lanier explains why it’s no longer adequate to pick a single mortgage technology and assume your every business need will be met.
Read More »After Week of Declines, Mortgage Rates Back on the Rise
Inflationary concerns and the Ukrainian conflict are factoring into mortgage rate volatility that is forecast to continue in the short-term.
Read More »Examining Loan Bias Among Borrowers of Color
A new report outlines lending trends in both government and conventional channels when it comes to low and moderate-income borrowers and neighborhoods of color.
Read More »Americans Getting Priced Out as Home Prices Soar
A record 8.2% of U.S. homes were valued at $1 million or more in February, according to a new report from Redfin—up 4.8% from 2020 before the coronavirus ...
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