First-time buyers: The best locations and mortgage lenders for new builds

By: ameer@trustedteam.com

Halifax has emerged as the most dominant lender for first-time buyers thanks to its strong mortgage offerings for low deposit borrowers and its ‘Family Boost’ product. ...

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New year – new mortgage prices: Which lenders have cut rates?

By: ameer@trustedteam.com

Leeds Building Society has cut rates across a range of mortgages in a move it said would save a typical customer around £300 a month. ...

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Guild lists houses that remedy fire risk, affordability issues

By: ameer@trustedteam.com

Guild Mortgage is listing two homes set up through a partnership in Paradise, California, that could prove to be a more broadly used model for disaster recovery and affordable...

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US 10-year yield ending 2023 almost exactly where it started

By: ameer@trustedteam.com

After a year of massive swings and numerous head fakes, the U.S. 10-year yield is poised to end 2023 almost exactly where it began.It's an almost farcical conclusion to...

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MBA, Guild, Attom make leadership moves, promotions

By: ameer@trustedteam.com

Left to right: Robert Callaway, Ken Jacobson Los Angeles-based CV3, the recently established real-estate investment lender, welcomed Robert Callaway and Ken Jacobson to its leadership team. Joining as...

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First American reboots after hack took down its systems

By: ameer@trustedteam.com

First American Financial announced Thursday it rebooted some of its systems, which were taken down in late December due to a cyberattack.The title insurance and settlement services provider said...

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Commentary: Why the reverse mortgage industry needs to stop marketing to ‘seniors’

By: ameer@trustedteam.com

Reverse mortgage sales and marketing still rely on broadly used principles. Chief among cardinal sales and marketing sins is assuming to know your customers without constant re-analysis and re-evaluation...

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Home buying migration trends are going backward: Redfin

By: ameer@trustedteam.com

Strained affordability and challenges to remote work opportunities have contributed to the lowest share of home buyers relocating in 18 months, Redfin reports. The 23.9% share of movers between September...

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How LOs, mortgage execs are preparing for 2024

By: ameer@trustedteam.com

After nearly two years of trudging through a frozen housing market, the consensus among mortgage professionals is that the worst of it is over. The Federal Reserve recently signaled plans...

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Mortgage investor JER files for bankruptcy, is latest property firm to crash

By: ameer@trustedteam.com

Jeanne Frank/Bloomberg JER Investors Trust Inc., a mortgage REIT, filed for bankruptcy in the latest sign of distress in commercial real estate.The real estate investment trust  — which...

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