Buyers may gain something next week that has been scarce in the housing market: leverage.For loan originators, the opening comes with an assignment. Borrowers returning to the market may have more ...

A homeowner calls asking about a HELOC. An originator can start quoting rates and payments, or pause long enough to ask a more useful question: What is the borrower actually trying to accomplish?

United Wholesale Mortgage has expanded its financing options for non-warrantable condominiums and launched an address-based ...

ACES Quality Management has launched a technology designed to help mortgage lenders identify compliance, operational, and data-quality risks beyond the loans captured through traditional ...

Mortgage applications for newly built homes declined in August for the fifth consecutive month, suggesting that affordability ...

Single-family construction rebounded in August, but falling permits, fewer completions, and widespread builder incentives point to a tougher fight for the purchase loans those homes eventually produce ...

Disclosure: The author is a principal of University Financial Associates LLC, the firm that developed ForeScore™, the ...

New lender portal centralizes lead assignment, preliminary qualification, and follow-up before applications enter underwriting FirstClose has launched a lender-facing workspace that brings home equity ...

Clear Capital has added an interactive review workflow to its automated appraisal risk platform as lenders prepare for the ...

Wholesale lender lands between the industry’s $845,000 benchmark and Pennymac’s $850,000 ceiling United Wholesale Mortgage has established an estimated $847,440 2027 conforming loan limit for one-unit ...

Austin, Texas remains the nation’s leading boomtown, while Southern metros claimed eight of the top 10 positions in a ...

The wholesale and correspondent lender plans to move six underwriting automation products into production within three months ...