High interest rates push down rate lock activity in August; Guaranteed Rate touts five-minute approvals; startup aims to link homebuyers with assumable mortgages; foreclosures increase; MISMO updates offerings.
State tax exemptions on municipal bonds encourage banks to load up on the asset. But to offset their exposure to the local real estate market, banks loosen credit to increase their out-of-state mortgage originations.
Community awareness of and reckoning with systemic racism following the BLM protests in 2020 appears to have led lenders to reduce the interest rate gap between Black and white borrowers.
High interest rates are cutting into demand for mortgages; many consumers’ expectations for interest rates are wrong; ICE and Black Knight move close to merger; servicer using blockchain, lender guarantees underwriting results from AI; Flagstar’s mortgage tech accelerator; mortgage payoff fraud attempts increase.
Low-income borrowers could divert some of their downpayment funds to a reserve account that would pay loan costs during emergencies in a pilot program proposed by the Urban Institute.
The volume of mortgages classified as held for sale at banks and thrifts ticked up in the first quarter, ending a long decline. Loan sales by banks also outpaced originations of mortgages intended for sale. (Includes two data charts.)
CrossCountry, Guild offering downpayment assistance; majority of loan originators living paycheck to paycheck; legislation would limit trigger lead activity; and more.
Banks with higher IT expenditures are significantly less likely to reject the applications of borrowers that are observably riskier, according to new research.
Borrowers with certain fixed-rate mortgages from Navy Federal Credit Union can now have their interest rate lowered when rates offered by the lender decline. No refi necessary, only a $250 fee.
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