Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Compass is rapidly increasing its residential real estate market share in several large U.S. metros, raising questions about market dominance, double-ending and industry rules, according to a report from the Consumer Policy Center (CPC) released Tuesday. The study, “Compass Expansion: New Data on Market Share and Double-Ending,” analyzed 5,000 recent home sales — 1,000 each […]

Mortgage rates had their best day of the month so far with the top tier 30yr fixed rate falling 0.08% for the average lender to the lowest levels in exactly 4 weeks. Today’s improvement is a bit bigger than today’s bond market movement would suggest. The discrepancy is due to timing. Bonds were improving fairly

Larger loans are increasingly showing up throughout private-label residential mortgage-backed securitizations, even in transactions outside the jumbo sector, according to new research. Processing Content Balances of $1 million or more are becoming more common for securitizations in the market for loans made outside of the qualified mortgage definition’s parameters, according to a Bank of American