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Blue Sage Solutions adds rent payment data to Freddie Mac mortgage assessments

Blue Sage Solutions has integrated Freddie Mac’s new policy on positive rental payment history into its digital lending platform, allowing lenders to factor on-time rent payments into mortgage applications. The change comes as part of a broader effort to expand access to homeownership, particularly for renters with limited traditional credit histories. Freddie Mac’s Loan Product […]

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Where does the housing market stand 5 years after the ‘flight to the suburbs’?

The onset of COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 set off a wave of domestic migration that reoriented housing markets across the country, turning some metro areas into boomtowns and sinking a number of others. The prevailing narrative around this phenomenon took on a life of its own — a mass exodus from urban cities in

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Mortgage Rates Little Changed, But Friday Could See a Bigger Move

Mortgage rates began the day perfectly in line with yesterday’s latest levels for the average lender. By the afternoon, the underlying bond market had lost enough ground that a handful of lenders were forced to issue mid-day reprices thus taking the average just a bit higher. Unlike the past few days, there wasn’t a highly

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