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HousingWireHousingWire Employment data for October is set to be released Friday, and it will go a long way in determining the path for mortgage rates, which have surged upward in the past month. At HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center on Tuesday, the average rate for 30-year conforming loans was 6.72%. That’s…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Earlier this year, Lewisville, Texas-based property services company MCS announced that it acquired Five Brothers Asset Management Solutions, a deal that brought MCS into the reverse mortgage industry for the first time. Soon after, CEO Craig Torrance offered an early look at what he hoped to achieve with the…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Is home-price growth finally cooling? That’s a question raised by the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for August, which showed deceleration on a year-over-year basis and a slight dip relative to July. On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, the national home price index posted a 4.2% gain year over year, less…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire If you didn’t know it before, you’re likely to be reminded every day between now and Nov. 5 that this is a close election for the balance of power in Washington, D.C. This theme persisted through the first full day at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)’s Annual Convention and…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Industry-leading reverse mortgage lender Finance of America (FOA) announced this week that nearly all of the holders of outstanding senior notes that were set to mature in 2025 will participate in a new bond exchange offer that was first announced in June and amended last month. Under the amended…
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