The Denver-based fintech Multiply Mortgage announced it has raised a $23.5 million Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins. According to the company A*, Box Group, Mischief, and Workshop also participated in the funding round, bringing the company’s total...
Mortgage application activity took a tumble while homeowner equity was on the rise in a pair of newly published data reports. Mortgage applications decreased 6.2% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage...
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) maintains a “secret blacklist” of condominium communities that makes it difficult, if not impossible, for these properties to get a mortgage. The new report claims the blacklist “includes condo...
The British Columbia Financial Services Authority (BCFSA) issued five consent orders to individuals who committed professional misconduct by engaging in business with an unregistered mortgage broker named Jay Kanth Chaudhary. BFCSA conducted a multi-year investigation...
Mortgage applications for new home purchases during February were down by 6.9% year-over-year, although they were also up by 0.3% from January, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). By product type, conventional loans composed 56.7% of loan...
Mortgage rates barely inched up in this week’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey published by Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC). The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.65% as of March 13, up slightly from last week when it averaged 6.63%. A year ago at this time, it averaged...
