The Mortgage Bankers Association is standing firm on its initiatives to help lenders find credit-report cost relief with its latest call to eliminate the tri-merge purchase requirement for a segment of borrowers. Processing Content In a letter addressed to Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte in mid December, MBA requested that the regulator, which […]
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Bob Hart will become president of ICE Mortgage Technology on Jan. 1, as part of a corporate shuffle which will move Tim Bowler to another unit at Intercontinental Exchange. Processing Content Most recently, Hart, who joined Intercontinental Exchange as part of the Ellie Mae acquisition, was the mortgage unit’s senior vice president of business and
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Kenny Smith, a former Deloitte Consulting vice chairman is the new CEO of Freddie Mac, the company announced. He starts his new position on Dec. 17. Processing Content Michael Hutchins, who occupied the seat twice on an interim basis, will remain as Freddie Mac’s president. Hutchins had replaced Diana Reid after she was ousted in
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New-home sales saw their largest year-over-year increase since July in November, even as mortgage rates changed little. Processing Content While the industry is still waiting on official data from the Census Bureau regarding the pace of new home sales, the MBA’s latest Builder Application survey found new-home purchase activity was up 3.1% from a
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Newly initiated foreclosure actions at banks have risen on a consecutive-quarter basis but the overall performance of financial institutions’ home loans has remained resilient from a credit perspective. Processing Content Foreclosure starts jumped to 7,903 from 7,163 the previous quarter and 7,450 a year earlier, according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s
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US job growth remained sluggish in November and the unemployment rate rose to a four-year high, pointing to a continued cooling in the labor market after a weak October. Processing Content Nonfarm payrolls increased 64,000 in November after declining 105,000 in October, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data out Tuesday. The unemployment rate was
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From lawsuits to mergers and acquisitions at a scale never seen before in real estate and everything in between, 2025 was full of twists, turns and surprises for the housing industry. HousingWire is rewinding and breaking down the biggest storylines in the real estate industry from this past year. The debate surrounding the National Association
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Foreword: I wish solving housing affordability fit into a 30-second TikTok or Instagram reel. It just doesn’t. But if we’re serious about fixing homeownership in America, we need to move past AI-generated graphics, random unresearched ideas, and face some hard truths. My mother and father taught me to be deferential. As the last child of
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Co-living marketplace PadSplit is expanding into four new U.S. markets: Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Sacramento and Nashville. Founded in 2017, PadSplit operates in more than 35 markets and has listed more than 28,000 rooms, housing 65,000-plus people. The company said it focuses on access and flexibility, with no minimum credit score or long-term lease required, allowing
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A new study found that Zillow’s automated home valuation tool, the Zestimate, improves pricing efficiency in residential real estate transactions and delivers measurable benefits to buyers and sellers like. The research, published in Marketing Science — a peer-reviewed journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences — concluded that Zillow‘s tool reduces
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