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Historically tight underwriting reinforced by regulation and third-party reviews could be buffers, so long as manufacturing standards for production and servicing hold up as residential mortgage companies downsize, according to KBRA.

The US housing market is starting to roll over quickly — and the parallels to the 2008 meltdown are growing.

Access to jumbo mortgage credit continued to increase in November, but the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) says it is still down significantly from pre-pandemic levels . Overall access fell during the month according to MBA's Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) which dipped by 0.6 percent. The decrease, however, was due solely to a constriction on the government loan side. The MCAI was at 124.9 in November. In February 2020, as the pandemic was taking hold, it had a reading of 1...

While qualifying got a little tougher for entry-level buyers with lower incomes in November, some other prospective borrowers had an easier time of it.

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Jumbo Loans Easier to Obtain as Economy Recovers About this Channel MND NewsWire features plain and simple interpretations of industry related data and events written in a manner that maintains the interest of random readers while still catering to the perspective of a housing market professional. Share: Apr 8 2021, 10:45AM Non-government lenders continue to return to mortgage lending after fleeing at the start of the pandemic. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA...

MLO, Ops Jobs; Broker, Retention Products; Borrower Satisfaction; Primer on How News Impacts Rates Dec 10 2020, 8:00AM “My ability to remember song lyrics from the 80s far exceeds my ability to remember why I walked into the kitchen.” The Baby Boomers are certainly riding the appreciation wave in housing across the nation. (Speaking of waves, did you know that Hawai’i is last among the states in boat registrations?) And given the rising values of a house, is any...