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Housing finance regulators should appreciate the stability and resilience of the conventional mortgage market backed by private mortgage insurance.

Premium cuts are expected to save borrowers $678 million a year but don't apply to existing loans or release homeowners who have built up equity from "life-of-loan" requirements.

Remember, not all math puns are terrible...just sum. Analyzing residential servicing is a combination of math and psychology. If you were an institution thinking of buying mortgage servicing rights (MSR), or a lender running the numbers on retaining servicing rather than selling it to an aggregator like AmeriHome or Penny Mac, you don’t like hearing the saying, “Marry the house, date the rate.” You’d prefer that the loan stay “on your books” well into th...

And Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he's hopeful for debt ceiling negotiations.

And demonstrators protest nationwide over Tyre Nichols' death.

Among its major accomplishments in the past year were an update to its Reference Model, the foundation for most of its standards.

Several of the 2022 HousingWire Vanguard honorees shared their insights on what’s happening at the federal level

Departing leader will take on a similar executive role at US Mortgage Insurers

A coalition of ticket brokers and resellers has registered its first federal lobbyists as Ticketmaster and Live Nation come under scrutiny.

Anyone who has ever gone swimming in the ocean knows that, in a violent surf, the swimmer can’t spend time and energy in the waves near the shore being knocked about. They either swim out beyond them, or swim into the beach. Using that analogy, think about lenders and vendors in the current environment. Having “no plan” is not a plan. Best to go one way or the other, because staying in the surf can be exhausting. (It will be a topic of today’s chat between the MBA&#x2...