A group of homeowners filed a class action lawsuit against the largest homebuilding company in the United States and its mortgage lending subsidiary over money they lost in an alleged deceptive mortgage scheme. D.R. Horton and DHI Mortgage targeted prospective homebuyers with affordable monthly payment plans, but the company low-balled the true costs and excluded […]
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A mixed picture emerged in mortgage rates one day after the start of the U.S. government shutdown, while a release of new jobs data raises concerns about the nation’s economic picture. Ten-year Treasury yields, whose movements typically influence the direction of mortgage rates, sat at 4.08% as of Thursday afternoon, tumbling 11 basis points from
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Some government-sponsored enterprise reform models could add three or four figures to monthly payments, but others could exert some limited downward pressure, a Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research report finds. Estimated mortgage-rate hikes of 0.2% to 0.8% — an additional $500 to $2,000 for the typical homebuyer — could result in certain scenarios, authors
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