Author name: Ricky Vasquez

New mortgage default activity remained stable in June, with new defaults among Federal Housing Administration (FHA) borrowers falling 15% from a year earlier, marking the largest annual decline in more than four years. That’s according to Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) latest First Look Mortgage Performance report, which observed that overall mortgage performance remained strong during the […]

If you’re just tuning in, mortgage rates had a rough day yesterday on top of a rough week overall. The result was the highest 30yr fixed rate in over a year with our index moving up to 6.85%. As has been and continues to be the case, rate momentum has been strongly correlated with oil/gas

A performance measure for Federal Housing Administration-insured loans improved markedly in the past month, according to the latest numbers from Intercontinental Exchange’s mortgage technology unit. Processing Content New FHA defaults were down 15% over the previous year’s levels in June, marking the biggest decline in more than four years and potentially giving servicers more bandwidth