HousingWireHousingWire Baby boomers are a key constituency for the reverse mortgage industry since they are currently the generation with the largest share of the population at or above the age of 62. A recent SmartAsset analysis of 2023 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) pinpointed where boomers are most active within…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Lower mortgage rates over the past several months have led to increased affordability for prospective homebuyers, and this could lead to an extra competitive fall 2024 season. That’s according to a Zillow report released Thursday in which the Seattle-based real estate company said that “lower mortgage rates and rising…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Compass is adding a new team to its Dallas roster. The real estate brokerage announced this week that the B-W Group is joining up and will operate out of its Park Cities office. The group reportedly tallied $56.8 million in sales volume in 2023. It is led by the…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Home equity continued to rise in the second quarter of 2024 as residential properties with mortgages collectively gained $1.3 trillion in equity over the past year. But growth began to slow during these three months, according to the CoreLogic Homeowner Equity Insights report published on Thursday. The aggregate equity…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ordered TD Bank to pay $28 million for illegal actions that could tarnish consumer credit reports and for not taking timely action to correct its errors. The CFPB’s investigation found that for several years, TD Bank repeatedly gave inaccurate account information to…
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