The latest installment of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s House Price Index (HPI) reveals that rose 1.4 percent in Q3 2017, and were up 6.5 percent between Q3 ...
Read More »Household Debt and Its Hidden Costs
The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) reported a new telephone survey of 1,004 U.S. adults conducted by the Harris Poll—with results showing 73 percent of Americans living with ...
Read More »Defect Risk Simmers, Except in Hurricane-Damaged Markets
Chief Economist says the surge in defect, fraud, and misrepresentation risk in loan applications has come to a halt—except for in the areas impacted by recent natural disasters.
Read More »Tax Reform: What’s the Impact?
New data released Monday reported an in-depth look at the effect changes to the tax code could have on the housing and mortgage markets. Read all the details here.
Read More »Retention on the Rise
A breakdown of recent rental trends reveals good news for investors with a focus on rental properties—strong lease retention rates among single-borrower, single-family rental securitizations.
Read More »Top 5 Housing Market Trends for 2018
From inventory, to price appreciation, to the new tax reform bill—the future of the housing market remains uncertain. However, as 2017 winds down, the industry can’t help but predict what’s to come for 2018.
Read More »Buyers are out There . . .
According to a recent report, housing demand dwindled in October, not due to a lack of interest in the market, but a short supply of properties for customers to put offers on.
Read More »Going Down, Still . . .
The newest index data on the interest rates of loans was released—reporting another decrease. See how much has changed compared to last month.
Read More »Millennials in the Market: The Key to a Faster Recovery?
With a population of more than 88 million, the millennial generation has the mass to truly make an impact on the housing market as buyers, according to a recent study. But do their views of homeownership align?
Read More »Mortgage Lenders Experience a Drop in Profits
The latest data on independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks reports reduced profitability on the production side of the business outweighed servicing gains.
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