Looking into 2024, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has announced that it now predicts origination volume to total $1.95 trillion next year.
Read More »Is the Mortgage Servicing Space in Need of a Reset?
A new white paper challenges the notion of disruption in the mortgage space, and how the utilization of proper software can bring this idea to fruition.
Read More »Remote Homebuying in a Remote Work World
Today, many Americans can live just about anywhere while working from home. Remote workers looking to move far away from their current residence might not have the time, resources, or motivation to make multiple trips between their current and future cities, but virtual tours combined with other data brings far-flung homes to buyers’ front steps.
Read More »Banks, Climate Change, and Credit; A New Perspective
New commentary from DBRS Morningstar highlights how the company looks at banks’ management of climate-related risks—in particular, from a credit perspective.
Read More »2024’s Top 10 Issues Affecting Real Estate
Headwinds such as the adoption of AI, global economic and political health, and the impact of remote work and vacant office spaces top a new study of the primary issues affecting real estate.
Read More »Tectonic Shifts in Industry Demographics Are Coming
According to a new First American Financial Company blog post, millennials are poised to surpass boomers as the largest generation and will be the major purchasers of their homes. Here’s what that will mean for the industry.
Read More »Is Operational Efficiency the Key to AI Adoption?
A variety of lenders were surveyed for a new Fannie Mae study, which found that lenders cited operational efficiency as the primary motivation for AI and machine learning adoption.
Read More »College Towns and Real Estate Investment: Where to Look First
Some towns with four-year colleges that are off the beaten path are ripe for real estate investment as room and board prices soar. Here’s a short list of markets poised to explode.
Read More »Fed Forgoes September Rate Hike
The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC) chose to forgo the opportunity to raise the central bank’s nominal interest rate at the conclusion of their September meeting, a repeat of the action the committee last took in June after hiking rates in July.
Read More »FORCE Rally 2023: The Who’s Who of REO Agents
The annual gathering of the Federation of REO Certified Agents took place at the 20th Five Star Conference and Expo, exploring everything REO, including data-backed insights from Fannie Mae and a series of informative panels. As Rick Sharga, President & CEO of CJ Patrick Company put it, "If you want to stay ahead in the distressed/default industry, you need to keep moving upstream."
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