In this week’s column, HousingWire Columnist Logan Mohtashami responds to presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg’s comments on the financial crisis, providing his own view on how the market crashed and how to keep it from ever happening again.
Tech-enabled matching platform, LemonBrew, has announced it will make a nationwide expansion throughout 2020.
Craig Phillips, who served as the Trump administration’s point person for GSE reform before stepping down in 2019, has a new job in the housing industry.
Real estate and mortgage startup Homie is now set to expand into three new states after the company raised $23 million in new funding.
An increase of Americans say they plan on purchasing a home. But will the benefit of low mortgage rates outweigh rising home prices and low housing inventory?
Sales of new homes jumped in January to an annualized rate of 764,000, which is 7.9% above December’s revised pace and 18.6% higher than the previous year.
ClosingCorp time studies show clients saving on average 45 minutes per file and $25 to $45 per loan.
Mortgage applications took a turn for the better this week, reversing course from last week’s decline. According to the MBA, applications increased by 1.5% from the previous week.
Joining us at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Servicing Conference, Marina Walsh breaks down how the refinance wave and potential natural disasters impact the servicing space. HW+ Premium Content
The lowest mortgage rates have ever been was around Thanksgiving 2012 when the interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 3.31% (according to Freddie Mac data), but rising panic over the coronavirus could drive rates to lows never seen before. HW+ Premium Content
Savvy criminals are learning that access to your own data isn’t the only leverage they have – lost business time and revenue can be held against you as well.
The success or failure of a real estate brokerage seems to be measured by a variety of components in today’s world. HousingWire Columnist Mary Frances Coleman takes a deeper look and asks the question, “Does agent count matter?”
