While most mortgage executives continue to see direct-to-consumer lenders like Rocket Mortgage as their biggest competition, mortgage brokers are seen as an increasingly worthy rival. Continue reading
Booming home price growth and dwindling inventory has negatively impacted buyer sentiment, according to Fannie Mae’s latest Home Purchase Sentiment Index. Continue reading
Lenders can use borrower’s actual monthly student loan payment when calculating their overall debt burden. Continue reading
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s federal regulator will soon have a new director, after a Supreme Court ruling that expands the president’s power to remove the head of the Federal Federal Housing Finance Agency without cause. Continue reading
Markets concur with the view that inflation increases are temporary, according to a Freddie Mac economist. Continue reading
As listing shortages and supply constraints on homebuilders drive up prices, risk of inflation grows, economists with Fannie Mae said. Continue reading
New lending restrictions and buyer preferences meant slower growth last month in mortgages for vacation homes and investment properties. Continue reading
New inflation numbers and tapering of the Fed’s mortgage bond purchases are likely to be on the agenda when the Fed meets next week. Continue reading
Share of consumers who say they’d buy a home if they moved hits all-time high of 72 percent, according to Fannie Mae’s National Housing Survey. Continue reading
The mortgage giants are continuing to fill openings left by top executives who departed in the wake of the November elections, which sidetracked plans to privatize the companies. Continue reading