According to a report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency, total Refinance volume has dropped as mortgage rates have risen. In February 2017, borrowers completed 4,198 refinances through HARP, and [...]

New data shows U.S. foreclosure activity has hit its lowest point since 2006. Now below pre-recession levels nationwide, there was an 11-percent drop in foreclosure filings in Q1 2017. Nearly [...]

ClosingCorp recently announced its induction into the Ellie Mae Hall of Fame. The provider of real estate cost data and technology for the mortgage and real estate services industry was [...]

“The most powerful and least accountable Washington bureaucracy in history” is what Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a blog post on Tuesday. [...]

An FHFA report reveals the GSEs completed nearly 15,000 foreclosure prevention actions in January, bringing their total to 3.8 million since the beginning of conservatorship. The report also revealed that [...]

The twin realities of the current U.S. housing market‒‒rising home prices and shrinking inventories in nearly every metro‒‒are increasingly putting homes out of reach for middle-income workers within their cities. [...]

New data shows the disparity between appraised values and homeowner expectations has grown—and for the fourth straight month. A few markets are bucking the trend, many on the West Coast. [...]

According to a new report, immigrant homebuyers helped the housing industry recover from the recession in a big way—and it will continue influencing the markets in the years to come. [...]

The number of open construction sector jobs rose to 169,000 in February, still below the cycle high of 238,000 set in July 2016. Additionally, the open position rate, or job [...]