A combination of ongoing financial stress and new jitters over the debt ceiling talks helped to scare aware potential mortgage borrowers. The Mortgage Bankers Association reported that its Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume,...
Mortgage Bankers Association President and CEO Bob Broeksmit took aim and fired an angry volley at politicians and regulators that he said were trying to burden the mortgage banking industry with a new round of onerous regulation. Speaking today at the trade group’s...
A power couple putting their money into real estate, an entertainment industry giant stumbling badly on misbegotten real estate projects and a mortgage company offering a remarkable gift to help families in need. Looking into the wild and wooly world of real estate,...
Mortgage applications for new home purchases were up by 4.1% in April from one year ago but were down 11% from March, according to new data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The MBA estimated that new single-family home sales were running at a seasonally...
There was bad news and good news for independent mortgage banks (IMBs) and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks during the first quarter of this year. The bad news: these entities reported a net loss of $1,972 on each loan they originated during the quarter,...
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