Owen Lee, CEO of Plymouth, Michigan-based Success Mortgage Partners Inc. (SMP), was nominated to become the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) vice chairman for the 2025 membership year. Lee will be installed as vice chairman at the MBA’s 111th Annual Convention in...
Mortgage applications activity recorded a significant upswing for the week ending June 7, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The Market Composite Index, the MBA’s measure of mortgage loan application volume, shot up by 15.6% on a seasonally adjusted...
Housing industry economists had mixed views of today’s data report from the U.S. Department of Labor that found the economy added more jobs than anticipated. During May, nonfarm payrolls expanded by 272,000, up from 165,000 in April and higher than a Dow Jones...
Mortgage credit availability increased slightly in May, according to new data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The trade group’s Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) inched up by 0.1% to 94.1 in May; the index was benchmarked to 100 in March 2012. The...
Mortgage application activity slowed again for the week ending May 31, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The Market Composite Index, the MBA’s measure of mortgage loan application volume, was down by 5.2% on a seasonally adjusted basis...
Hurricane Isaias Strikes Florida Panhandle as $71.8 Billion in Commercial P…
