September 2025

Affordable housing groups weighing on behalf of underserved communities are advocating for a cautious approach to the government-sponsored enterprise reform the Trump administration is pursuing. “Any changes to the enterprises cannot raise costs on renters and homeowners,” the Underserved Mortgage Markets Coalition said in laying out one of its priorities for reform as administration officials […]

The industry’s largest competitors at the National Mortgage News Digital Mortgage Conference Monday in San Diego agreed that it’s crucial to watch tech adoption by their own staff very closely. And despite countless artificial intelligence solutions, lenders say they’re still prioritizing their originators’ human touch with borrowers. Here are a few takeaways from the first

Housing starts in the U.S. fell last month to the lowest since May, as bloated home inventory slowed builders’ appetites to boost production. New residential construction decreased 8.5% last month to an annualized rate of 1.31 million homes, government data released Wednesday showed. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economist was for 1.37