Hot inflation data sends mortgage rates to new 2024 highs

Hot inflation data sends mortgage rates to new 2024 highs

Bond market investors who fund most mortgage loans are increasingly convinced the latest inflation numbers mean the Federal Reserve won’t cut rates in June. At Inman Connect Las Vegas, July 30-Aug. 1... Read more »
How the CPI data took one Fed rate cut off the table for 2024 

How the CPI data took one Fed rate cut off the table for 2024 

So far, we have held the line on the market pricing in three rate cuts, but today was a clear break from that. Earlier in the year, the market got well ahead... Read more »
Hot inflation data sends mortgage rates to new 2024 highs

Title Data Is Helping Real Estate Agents, Lenders Prospect for Clients

DataTrace, which now operates more than 1,800 U.S. title plants, says the remarkable granularity of its data can help identify renters who are getting ready to buy, empty nesters and fix-and-flip investors.... Read more »
Data breach at Nations Direct Mortgage impacts 83,000 borrowers

Data breach at Nations Direct Mortgage impacts 83,000 borrowers

Nations Direct Mortgage will provide services through Kroll at no cost to the recipient for 24 months. The identity monitoring services include credit monitoring, a web watcher, $1 million in identity fraud... Read more »
Data breach at Nations Direct Mortgage impacts 83,000 borrowers

Bayview mortgage servicers seek to block plaintiff’s filing in data breach lawsuit

Three Bayview Asset Management-owned mortgage servicers are seeking to halt a plaintiff’s filing in a data breach lawsuit, citing an overabundance of confidential information shared about the incident, National Mortgage News first... Read more »
SmartZip Review: Can data improve your prospecting game?

SmartZip Review: Can data improve your prospecting game?

It’s no secret that homeowners search online to find a listing agent who can sell their home quickly and for top dollar. But what if you could find them first? What if... Read more »
Baird & Warner partners with data provider RealReports

Baird & Warner partners with data provider RealReports

Illinois-based Baird & Warner, an independent real estate brokerage, partnered with proptech firm RealReports, the companies announced Tuesday. The news comes on the heels of the Keyes Company’s partnership with RealReports in October... Read more »
Statement from NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun: January Housing Starts Data

Statement from NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun: January Housing Starts Data

NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun issued the following statement on the January housing starts data: “Housing starts collapsed in January. More snow than usual fell across parts of the country, but the... Read more »
Data breach at Nations Direct Mortgage impacts 83,000 borrowers

Major real estate firms among defendants in 118 data privacy lawsuits

Nearly a dozen real estate industry firms have been named as defendants in the 118 data privacy lawsuits filed in the Superior Court of New Jersey over the past 10 days by... Read more »
Housing credit data in Q4 looks nothing like 2008

Housing credit data in Q4 looks nothing like 2008

People have been screaming about a housing bubble crash on social media sites for over 12 years. The truth is, U.S. housing credit looks very different than in 2005, 2006, 2007 or... Read more »