Recent updates to secondary-market rules for interested party contributions and incentives mean lenders will have to pay more attention to how they use certain strategies that have become popular in the current market. The updates, which generally are in effect now and become mandatory in early September, add additional precision in some cases and more […]
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Housing inventory decreased last week, while purchase application data grew 25% year-over-year! What is happening in the housing market? In the two weeks leading up to the July 4th holiday week, our weekly Housing Market Tracker showed that housing data was stabilizing as mortgage rates approached their lowest levels of the year. However, with July
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Bloomberg News A Texas judge has vacated the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s medical debt rule and specifically admonished states that have sought to take medical debt off credit reports in a major win for the Trump administration, banks and two trade groups that sued the agency. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Sean D. Jordan, of
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