Real REMAX Group is already making a significant change to its mortgage strategy, just days after completing the combination of The Real Brokerage and REMAX. The newly combined company will stop selling new Motto Mortgage franchises and no longer invest in expanding...
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh delivered a difficult message for the housing industry Friday: The Fed sees the strain in housing, but that weakness is not enough to shift its attention away from inflation. Speaking at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s...
Property valuation has always been one of the stranger parts of the mortgage transaction for consumers. A buyer can negotiate a purchase price with a seller, provide months of financial documentation to a lender and get all the way through underwriting only to have...
There are some lessons the mortgage industry learned the hard way. We learned what happens when loans are made without adequately documenting income. We learned what happens when borrowers are qualified into products they do not understand or cannot reasonably afford....
Seven federal agencies have withdrawn a 2022 interagency statement that encouraged creditors to consider Special Purpose Credit Programs, adding another significant change to a fair-lending framework that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had already revised...