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Lenders looking to cut costs are more willing to lay off their back office staff than slash other business expenses, according to a new Fannie Mae survey. While cost-cutting wasn’t firms’ top business priority, more senior mortgage executives placed prospective layoffs above trimming general and administrative expenses. The findings in the Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey, […]

Mortgage lenders managed to increase origination volumes earlier in 2025 in a still-sluggish housing market at the same time home equity loans grew at their fastest pace in three years, according to Transunion.  Originations climbed up 5.1% on an annual basis in this year’s first quarter to just approximately 980,000 loans, according to the latest

No one likes waiting to get into the home of their dreams. While many prospective homeowners have been biding their time for weeks, months, even years waiting for the market to shift, many challenges aren’t going away — especially the burden of saving thousands of dollars for a down payment. Fortunately, if you’re an independent