Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Reverse mortgage professionals are navigating a “more labored current reality” marked by high interest rates, rising upfront costs and longer loan processing times, even as optimism grows around product innovation and technology adoption. That’s according to Steve Irwin, president of the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA), who sat down with HousingWire‘s Reverse Mortgage Daily […]

As many in the title industry already understand, the conversation around technology selection has become fairly sophisticated. Agents and owners are asking sharper questions before signing contracts, doing more due diligence on vendors and thinking more carefully about implementation timelines and staff readiness. All of that is real progress. There’s one challenge, though, that we’re

The near-term impact of inflation has the Mortgage Bankers Association warning of potential setbacks to growth and a 2027 federal rate hike, but lenders should still see volumes increase this year, it said on Sunday. Processing Content Originations will grow approximately 6% year-over-year in 2026 on a dollar-volume basis, with the trade group presenting baseline