Movement locked rates on $1.1 billion of mortgages in January, an 11 percent increase from the same month a year ago. It called the improvement an "indicator of future growth in February and March.”
The Trump administration has released a proposed fiscal year 2019 budget that envisions big changes for the CFPB. According to budget documents, the White House is proposing to restructure the bureau, limit its mandatory funding in 2019, and provide discretionary, congressional appropriations to fund the agency beginning in 2020. Many of the proposed changes would require revisions to the bureau’s charter by Congress that would likely face a difficult path to enactment ...