Clever Real Estate has acquired Gravy Technologies, which provides a loyalty-as-a-service platform for lenders and real estate agents.

A new paper by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies has called for policymakers and mortgage lenders to play a larger role in removing barriers to homeownership for immigrants.

Millennials make up the largest generation of first-time homebuyers, but they face affordability challenges, according to recent industry reports.

Industry participants discussed the challenges to homeownership growth among the U.S. Latino population during the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals’ annual conference this week.

Miami is the most popular migration destination of major metropolitan areas, creating opportunities for purchase-money lenders.

First-time homebuyers accounted for over half of the purchase mortgages securitized by Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie in the second quarter, and private MIs are taking a bigger share.