Following a four-year battle with brain cancer, Dr. Richard Alan Brown, 58, died November 8. The Ashburn, Virginia, resident served as the first Chief Economist at the Federal Deposit Insurance [...]

 Editor's note: This story originally appeared in the November edition of DSNews, out now.  The COVID-19 pandemic will likely be a cross-roads and accelerator to the long-term future for many industries. In the last few years, we [...]

Mortgage application fraud risk was up on a quarterly basis while a suburban New York market emerged as the nation’s leading market for mortgage fraud risk, according to new data [...]

The housing market is booming, even amid recent economic upheaval related to the COVID-19 crisis, but that holds less true in Opportunity Zones nationwide, according to a study by ATTOM [...]

A recent Redfin report reveals findings from the real estate experts’ survey covering Americans’ feelings regarding how their local governments handled the pandemic. The survey was given to more than [...]

To support homeowners and mortgage lenders, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced in a press release Thursday an extension of a temporary policy that allows for the purchase of [...]

This story originally appeared in the November edition of DS News.   With more than 30 years’ mortgage industry experience, William J. Tessar joined CIVIC Financial Services in March 2017. He previously [...]

A survey published Tuesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) showed that among mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties, delinquencies decreased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 7.65% of all [...]

A primary goal of 1977's Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was to reverse the effects of redlining, a practice by which the federal government and banks actively avoided lending to borrowers [...]