Among the nation’s 50 largest metro areas, half, primarily in the north and east, had annual home price increases in July, while the others are reporting downturns, Zillow found. Nationwide, year-over-year home price appreciation was a meager 0.2%. While this helped to marginally improve affordability, with average monthly mortgage costs down $19 over the past […]
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac look like they would hold up better in a severe downturn today than their collective stress tests indicated in 2024. The tests modeled how they’d fare after absorbing losses like a total $36.1 billion provision in net chargeoffs plus foreclosed property expenses. That shows the credit losses they’d be likely
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Al Drago/Bloomberg WASHINGTON — The Office of Management and Budget has apportioned a fraction of the money Congress allotted to the Community Development Financial Institution Fund, documents show. OMB has allotted only $35 million under the Trump administration to the CDFI program, according to new apportionment documents. All of those funds have gone to cover
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A California regulator is fining the defunct Caliber Home Loans $1.8 million for overcharging borrowers, an issue stemming from an examination almost a decade ago. The former lender, which was purchased by Newrez in 2021, has also refunded over $550,000 to impacted California borrowers, according to a press release Monday. The California Department of Financial
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The Bank of Glen Burnie, a Maryland-based depository, has acquired VA Wholesale Mortgage, a Virginia Beach, Virginia-based originator, with an office in Jacksonville, Florida. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. A check of the NMLS Consumer Access page has Virginia Wholesale Mortgage, how the Bank of Glen Burnie’s second quarter Securities and Exchange Commission
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Mortgage applications for new-home purchases accelerated in July, as borrowers took advantage of homebuilder concessions and a drop in interest rates, according to new industry data. New single-family residential mortgage applications rose 6.8% year over year last month, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The increase coincided with greater overall mortgage activity in the back
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Bond traders’ big bet that the Federal Reserve is poised to lower interest rates faces a key moment this week as Chair Jerome Powell gets a chance to weigh in on the economy. Powell’s speech on Friday at the central bank’s annual gathering in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, kicks off a make-or-break stretch for the Treasury market, which
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When you sell a house, the last thing you want is for the deal to fall apart right before closing. But according to the latest data from Redfin, that’s happening a bit more often lately. The good news is, it’s completely avoidable if you lean on an agent for insight into why that is and
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Florida homebuyers are facing the same affordability challenges that other housing markets are grappling with, but with added regulatory hurdles if they want to buy a condo. The Florida Association of Mortgage Professionals (FAMP), which is hosting its annual convention this week in Orlando, is addressing those challenges head-on, looking to improve the Florida housing market
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The Social Security system celebrated its 90th birthday this week. In the wake of this milestone, several policy analysts and news outlets offered their thoughts on the program’s past, present and future. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) noted that the safety net program that currently serves some 69 million Americans per month
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