Mortgage Industry News
Mortgages Update: Rising Costs Taking Toll On First-Time Buyer Finances
Source: Forbes --- 13 January: Higher Payments And Deposits Making Ownership More Difficult Monthly mortgage payments are taking a larger bite out of typical first-time buyer household outgoings, writes Laura Howard. Monthly mortgage payments now account for 39% of a...
2023 Mortgage Forecast: Rates Expected to Decline
Source: US News --- Mortgage rates are widely expected to fall this year as inflation recedes and the U.S. economy prepares for the possibility of a modest recession, according to some of the nation's leading real estate economists. This comes after mortgage rates...
Forbearance rate drops below 1%, lowest level since June 2020
Source: Housing Wire --- Servicers’ forbearance portfolio volume dropped in April to a level below 1%, with fewer than half a million borrowers remaining with an active plan, according to the monthly Loan Monitoring Survey conducted by the Mortgage Bankers...
Opinion: Use data to scale your mortgage servicing business
Source: Housing Wire --- Mortgage servicing is a scale business, meaning the economics of scale can be achieved with larger servicing portfolio by spreading the fixed costs among more loans being serviced. Such scaling; however, hasn’t achieved the expected results as...
Home Builders Warn of Significant Affordability Declines
Source: NAHB --- Housing affordability posted a modest gain for average conditions in the first quarter of 2022 as a strong jump in national median income helped to offset a gradual rise in interest rates. However, home builders warn of current deteriorating...
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