Consumers are becoming less happy with their mortgage lenders, according to the JD Power 2024 U.S. Mortgage Origination Satisfaction Study. Overall customer satisfaction with mortgage lenders was rated at a 727 level on a 1,000-point scale, down three points from one...
Chrissi Rhea, the former president and CEO of Knoxville, Tennessee-based Mortgage Investors Group, passed away on Nov. 8 following a bout with cancer. Rhea co-founded Mortgage Investors Group with Chuck Tonkin in 1989 with seven employees. Today, the company employs...
The delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties totaled 3.92% of all loans outstanding by the end of the third quarter of 2024, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The delinquency rate was down 5 basis...
Mortgage rates were up for the sixth consecutive week, according to the Primary Mortgage Market Survey published by Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC). The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.79% as of Nov. 7, up from last week when it averaged 6.72%. A year ago at this...
Mortgage application activity trended downward during the week ending Nov. 1, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). This marked the sixth straight week of application activity decline. The Market Composite Index, the MBA’s measure of mortgage...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has filed a proposed order to resolve charges that Townstone Financial, a nonbank mortgage broker and lender, intentionally discriminated against predominantly Black neighborhoods in Chicago in violation of the Equal...
