With home prices climbing and mortgage rates keeping owners locked in place, Americans are sitting on a record $34.5 trillion in home equity and lenders are eager to cash in. The $34.5T in equity marks a $600 billion increase from last year. The total equity Americans have in their homes is up $4.7 trillion from […]
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration upped its rhetoric on debanking again on Tuesday, this time targeting banks themselves rather than their regulators. President Donald Trump once again took aim at two of the country’s largest banks, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, and their chief executives, for what he framed without evidence as discrimination against
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Some loosening in mortgage underwriting contributed to the 8-basis-point quarter-to-quarter increase in the Milliman Mortgage Default Index. This measurement is an estimate of the lifetime serious delinquency rate, which Milliman defines as loans for which the borrower is 180 or more days late on their payments. It looks at loans acquired by the government-sponsored enterprises
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