Is Affordability Starting To Improve?

Over the past couple of years, a lot of people have had a hard time buying a home.

HighTechLending leaders say flexibility, added value drive rebranded wholesale division

California-based HighTechLending, a top-10 lender in the reverse mortgage industry, recently announced that it was rebranding its wholesale channel to American Senior Lending Wholesale Division in an effort to better align its identity with key business lines designed to serve older borrowers. One o

Mortgage rates are down. Do buyers care?

Mortgage rates fell two weeks ago, then climbed steadily again last week. Is it enough to motivate any new seller activity or are we looking at 2025 before home sales finally recover? From a total inventory perspective, we haven’t seen any pickup in demand in the past couple of weeks as mortgage rat

More FHA borrowers are using piggyback loans that bear watching: CoreLogic

Piggyback mortgages — those involving a first and second lien at origination — are on the rise among first-time and low- to moderate-income borrowers who face affordability challenges. This is according to a CoreLogic report published on Monday. The share of piggybacked Federal Housing Administratio