The reasons that the homeownership rate among millennials hasn’t been as high as it was for previous generations continues to captivate industry analysts. The latest research suggests that those born in the early 1980s through the early 2000s have delayed homeownership due to personal decisions and because home prices are rising faster than income. Nearly 60.0 percent of renters are looking to buy in the next five years and 70.0 percent of those renters are millennials ...
California remained the biggest market in the U.S. for primary mortgage insurance during the second quarter, but other states had higher proportions of insured loans, according to an Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of agency loan-level data. In Florida, Virginia and Georgia, more than 60 percent of agency loans carried some form of primary mortgage insurance ... [Includes one data chart]
CoreLogic is touting a new on-demand service that makes residential condominium lending a less strenuous process for lenders even as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac warm up the market with policy changes to drum up new business. The new service, CondoSafe Express, simplifies condo lending by taking over the extra layer of work lenders must perform to originate a condo loan. “Lenders not only have to get a borrower’s credit report, verify income and ... [Includes one data chart]
Most of the nation’s largest home lenders started reporting second quarter results this week, indicating a modest improvement in residential originations and profits – but nothing to write home about.
There appears to be no clear, unified lending policy among the government-sponsored enterprises, FHA, VA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture when it comes to the eligibility of certain non-permanent U.S. residents for a conventional conforming or government-backed mortgage loan.
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