January 2026

The housing market looks set to stabilize this year as home-price growth slowed to a 14-year low in the final months of 2025, new industry reports said. Processing Content Annual home-price appreciation ended last year at 0.7%, the smallest calendar-year increase since 2011, when prices dropped 2.9%, according to Intercontinental Exchange’s Home Price Index.  Cotality […]

Higher costs for credit reporting in the mortgage industry are drawing renewed criticism from a federal housing official as the new year gets underway. Processing Content “I do not know what the credit bureaus are doing with their pricing. They are inviting a lot of scrutiny and that is only intensifying by the day,” Federal

Key insight: Fifth Third and Comerica’s shareholders both blessed the companies’ proposed merger, but the two banks are still embroiled in a legal battle with an activist investor. What’s at stake: If the deal crosses the finish line, it will be one of the largest bank mergers of the last decade. Forward look: The banks