"Feels Like The New Retail": Some Owners Giving Up On Older Offices In High-Cost Cities By Tim Carroll of Bisnow News After two years of...
Blackstone Gives Up On One Of Its Midtown Manhattan Office Buildings, Hands Keys To Lender By Miriam Hall of Bisnow.com, Blackstone is giving...
Experts forecast fewer cases of zombie foreclosures this year, but heightened responsibilities for servicers. HousingWire explores how servicers are handling...
A growing chorus of mortgage servicers, consultants, and lobbyists support the idea of having forbearance programs as a permanent solution in the industry's...
The performance of loan pools backing private-label securitization deals has continued to improve across most measurement metrics through the end of January...
Fannie and Freddie earlier reported results for Q4 2021. Here is some information on single-family Real Estate Owned (REOs). Here is a note on the pandemic impact...
From the MBA: Mortgage Delinquencies Decrease in the Fourth Quarter of 2021The delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties decreased to a seasonally adjusted...
For more than 50 years, the Black Knight MSP loan servicing system has been helping power servicing operations from loan boarding, payment processing and escrow administration...
HousingWire recently spoke with Joe Davila, president and CEO of Selene Finance, about how servicers can best help homeowners as foreclosure moratoriums expire. Communication, borrower education...
According to CoreLogic's Frank Nothaft, next year should be a strong year for housing. Here are his 5 predictions for the 2022 housing market. The post...
Economics Professor Proposes Price Controls As A Powerful Weapon To Contain Inflation Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Isabella Weber, an assistant professor of economics at...
It didn’t take long for mortgage servicers to realize they had a historic challenge on their hands. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, over 22...
Earlier this year, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) published data showing a 1.5-year decline in national life expectancy in 2020, largely due to the...
Borrowers have a lot to lose if public policies to help paying their mortgage don't break right. HousingWire took a deep dive into the $10 billion...
The MBA 2022 forecast includes higher mortgage rates, more purchase volume and tighter margins for lenders. The post Mike Fratantoni on MBA’s 2022 mortgage market forecast...
Housing inventory has collapsed to all-time lows this year. Lack of inventory continues to be one of the biggest risks to the housing market. The post...
Rickards: Towards A New Great Depression Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, First Down Payment on a Boondoggle Thirteen Republican congressmen crossed the aisle late Friday...
Only a small share of inventory is expected to come from homeowners foreclosed upon after the expiration of key federal protections. The post Housing Market Expected...
Trump Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Launches $2.5 Billion Private Equity Fund Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has just sent the clearest signal yet that he likely...
Mike Fratantoni writes: Our forecast is for the unemployment rate to continue to decline, reaching 4.5% by the end of 2021, and likely dropping below 4%...
Mauldin: Perfect Storms Are Brewing Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com, Having been Puerto Rico residents for almost three years now, Shane and I have learned...
A significant share of homeowners exiting forbearance programs in coming months will likely end up listing their home for sale. The post Forbearance Exits Will Likely...
Forbearance on debt repayment was a key provision of the CARES Act, legislation intended to combat the widespread economic losses stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. This...
RealtyTrac's Rick Sharga explains why he is convinced that when government borrower protections finally do expire, we’ll see a relatively soft landing on foreclosures. HW+ Premium...
Servicers should be communicating with borrowers early, ensuring to do so in a compliant manner by staying abreast of the current and proposed regulations, CFPB or...
Widespread vaccinations and relaxed CDC restrictions have stimulated a robust economic rebound. Since the start of the pandemic, the U.S. unemployment rate declined dramatically from a...
From CoreLogic: Nationwide Homeowner Equity Gains Hit $1.9 Trillion in Q1 2021, CoreLogic ReportsCoreLogic® ... today released the Homeowner Equity Report for the first quarter of...
Housing Hubris: Mortgage Apps Plunge Despite Homebuilder Euphoria After a brief pause, mortgage applications tumbled again last week (-4.0% WoW after falling 4.2% WoW the prior...
Federal Judge Overturns CDC's Eviction Moratorium A month ago, The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board stated yet another true but unpopular fact: "Continuing government bans on...
Today's housing fundamentals -- including supply, demand and overall financial conditions -- are markedly different than in 2008. The post History Not Repeating: Why Today's Housing...