Mortgage Bankers Association President and CEO Bob Broeksmit opened the 2023 edition of his organization’s Annual Convention & Expo will a full-throttle assault against the federal government for policies that he decried as having a destructive impact on the...
Rising mortgage rates, rising foreclosure rates, and Bad Bunny’s rather pricey rental unit. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our hits and misses for the week of Oct. 9-13. Miss: Up, Up and Oh No. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage surged...
Mortgage application activity recorded a slight uptick last week, according to new data from Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The Market Composite Index, the trade group’s measure of mortgage loan application volume, inched up by 0.6% on a seasonally adjusted basis...
Mortgage credit availability increased in September, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The MBA’s Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) increased by 0.6% to 97.2 last month; the index was benchmarked to 100 in March 2012. Both the Conventional...
The leadership of the Mortgage Bankers Association, the National Association of Home Builders and the National Association of Realtors have sent a joint letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warning that the central bank’s policy of rate hikes is creating...
Zillow Cuts Its Late-2026 Home Sales Outlook as Rents Accelerate
