New home planning permissions approved in the third quarter of the year fell by a record 19% to just under 2,450 projects compared with a year ago, data from...
Read MoreMetro Bank has scrapped its £3bn mortgage portfolio sale, citing market conditions. ...
Read MoreThe Equity Release Council has confirmed David Burrowes as its chair and made another board appointment to the industry body, which represents lenders, qualified financial advisers, solicitors, and intermediaries. ...
Read MoreMortgage rates and the 10-year yield What a crazy week! Not too long ago, on jobs Friday, I was on the HousingWire Daily podcast saying it’s time to declare war...
Read MoreMultiple mortgage industry groups are backing the latest bill aimed at curtailing trigger leads, which Sen. Jack Reed, D.-R.I., introduced this week with Sen. Bill Hagerty, R.-Tenn., as a...
Read MoreAn influential government-related mortgage investor is expanding the use of a title insurance alternative for loans on condominium units and certain other properties, and they're getting new pushback.The new...
Read MoreReal estate tech firm Prevu announced a Series A financing round Thursday of $6 million. Citi, RiverPark Ventures, Metropolis Ventures, Simplex Ventures, Winklevoss Capital and Liebenthal Ventures invested in...
Read MoreL. Scott Bruggemann, senior vice president and general counsel at Summit, wrote in an emailed response to HousingWire that, at this time, the company “does not have anything to...
Read MoreThe overall pace of bank branch closures slowed in 2023, but certain banks still slashed the size of their brick-and-mortar networks substantially. U.S. banks closed 2,118 branch locations between January...
Read MoreThe mortgage industry took it on the chin in 2023, with many of those same factors hurting it now likely to affect next year's profitability.That includes the Fed's own...
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