Proposed Arizona Bill Addresses HOA Foreclosure Timelines
A new bill proposed in the Arizona Senate this week could speed up the timeline for when homeowners associations (HOA) could foreclose on homeowners who become delinquent in their HOA [...]
New York City Foreclosed Homes Hit 8-Year High
According to PropertyShark’s annual foreclosure report released this week, the Big Apple had 3,306 homes scheduled for auction last year, a year-over-year increase of 58 percent. PropertyShark releases quarterly reports [...]
How Could Housing Reform Affect Rural Mortgage Lending?
According to a new paper published by the Center on Regulation and Markets at the Brookings Institution, rural communities could be dealt a serious blow if housing finance and GSE [...]
Are Servicing Reforms on the Horizon?
With housing finance reform legislation once again in the works in Congress, now might be the right time for reforms in the mortgage servicing industry. The first in this three-part [...]
Cold Weather Means Rental Market Bargains for Investors
For investors looking to find bargains in the single-family rental (SFR) market, winter is here … and that’s a good thing. According to a study by HomeUnion, an online real [...]
Mortgage Delinquencies Begin to Recover from Hurricane Season
Even though last year’s hurricane season is behind us, the aftermath from 2017’s damaging storms continues to be felt both on the ground where the storms made landfall and throughout [...]
Smaller Banks Picked up RMBS Slack in Q3
The third quarter of 2017 saw many of the larger bank servicers scaling back their portfolios of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), while smaller regional banks and non-bank servicers moved to [...]
U.S. Housing Market Gets Hot
Technology hubs and South Eastern U.S. cities emerge as the top spots in the 10 hottest housing markets of 2018. The post U.S. Housing Market Gets Hot appeared first on [...]
Quicken Loans: Homeowners and Appraisers Sync Up
Estimates about home values among homeowners and appraisers were considerably closer to lining up during the final month of 2017, according to new data released by Quicken Loans. According to [...]