Origination

Housing numbers might be doing well in general, but what happens when everyone wants to buy a house but no one wants to build them?

Will borrowers have an incentive to refinance if rates increase?

In April, pending home sales reached their highest point in a decade, contributing toward making 2016 the best spring homebuying season in a decade. Can they maintain that level in May?

Bottom-tier housing prices are escalating at rates competitive with top-tier properties, and in some cases surpassing them greatly.

Compared with a decade ago, single-family home-purchase originations have been cut in half. But the denial rate is way down, too.

What do near-historic low mortgage interest rates mean for the mortgage industry?

Title agents are significantly more optimistic in Q2 than last quarter about the volume of both purchase and refinance transactions in the year ahead, according to a recent survey.

According to FHFA, however, price growth may decelerate to more normal rates of appreciation barring dramatic increases in wage growth and vast improvements in other areas of the market.

Housing construction is still considerably below demand across swaths of the United States, and it’s causing costs and rents to balloon, according to a recent analysis.

Building 1,000 average single-family homes packs quite an economic wallop, according to the National Association of Homebuilders.