Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton made it official on Friday when she announced that Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) will be her running mate. Kaine is passionate about housing policy, having been a fair housing attorney prior to entering politics.
Read More »Tighter Housing Inventory=Faster Sales. . .Or Vice Versa?
Housing inventory is tight and homes are selling at an increasingly faster rate, which begs the question: Is inventory tight because homes are selling quickly, or are homes selling quickly because inventory is tight?
Read More »Inlanta Mortgage Integrates LendingQB’s LOS
LendingQB announced it has successfully implemented its Web-based loan origination system for mortgage lender Inlanta Mortgage, Inc.
Read More »Exactly Five Years Into the CFPB Era. . .
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau celebrated its fifth birthday on Thursday, July 21. Five years in, those in the mortgage industry continue the fierce debate on whether the Bureau is helping or harming the industry.
Read More »Is Home Price Appreciation Decelerating?
Home prices have appreciated at a rapid pace for much of the last four years, but that pace slipped slightly in May. Are the forecasts of the deceleration of home price appreciation coming true?
Read More »CoreLogic Enhances University Data Portal
CoreLogic has announced that its online University Data Portal will offer access to the most comprehensive foreclosure and mortgage information available to the industry.
Read More »First-Time Buyers Boost Existing-Home Sales
The highest share of first-time buyers in four years boosted existing-home sales for June, but concerns around tight inventory and rapid home price appreciation still linger.
Read More »VRM Mortgage Services Receives Multiple Diversity Awards
VRM Mortgage Services, an outsourcing solutions provider for residential and commercial assets, has received multiple awards from DiversityBusiness.com for the third consecutive year.
Read More »Morgan Stanley’s Q2 Results Provide Calm in Rough Waters
It has been a tough year so far for Morgan Stanley. So the news that the investment banking firm’s net income rose substantially and beat expectations came as welcome news.
Read More »55+ Crowd Shuns Conventional Logic in Housing
Americans 55 and older remain a major piece of the U.S. housing market and will continue to be for a long time, because they aren’t playing by conventional logic.
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