Author name: Ricky Vasquez

The Federal Housing Administration has revised updates planned for rules around contacting and offering options to distressed borrowers. The FHA has removed required outreach at particular times from a planned transition to permanent loss mitigation options from temporary pandemic contingencies, and also is tweaking modernization of what were originally “face-to-face” meeting requirements. Overall, the new […]

Closed-end home equity loan annual growth outpaced its line of credit cousin in the fourth quarter, increasing 13% above its high point from a year ago, the TransUnion first quarter Home Equity Trends Report found. Total home equity origination, in which TransUnion counts first mortgage refinance activity as well (although it does not distinguish between

Treasury yields tumbled after weaker-than-expected gauges of job creation and service-sector activity strengthened traders’ conviction that the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates as soon as September. Two- to 10-year yields reached the lowest levels since at least May 9 after the ISM Services gauge for last month signaled contraction for the first time since