While the mortgage delinquency rate remains low compared to pre-pandemic levels, the number of delinquent loans ticked up in September, according to the ICE Mortgage Monitor report. The national delinquency rate climbed... Read more »
Weekly housing inventory data One of my concerns with higher rates has been whether new listings data would take another leg lower, which wouldn’t be a good thing for the housing market.... Read more »
Optimal Blue — a provider of secondary market solutions and actionable data services — plans to solidify its position as an end-to-end solution from pricing a loan to hedging, trading and selling... Read more »
Rates on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage eclipsed 8% this week as the Treasury yield surpassed 4.9% for the first time since 2007, according to one index. Per Mortgage News Daily, mortgage rates... Read more »
As the 30-year fixed mortgage rate increased for the sixth consecutive week to 7.70%, mortgage applications slumped, hitting their lowest level since 1995. Last Monday, in an attempt to calm the markets,... Read more »
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is working to offer a new partial claim option before the end of 2023, according to the federal housing commissioner at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Julia... Read more »
Top-20 U.S. mortgage lender Bank of America (BofA) reported declining mortgage and home equity production in the third quarter of 2023, compared to the previous quarter. And more declines are yet to come if... Read more »
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra expects that servicing rulemaking will be issued in the coming months modeled on the lessons learned through the COVID-19 pandemic. “I do anticipate that... Read more »