by Beth McGuire | Jan 31, 2025 | Best Practices, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
Editor’s Note: The Mortgage Mix is RISMedia’s biweekly highlight reel of need-to-know mortgage-industry happenings. Watch for it every other Friday afternoon. Eleventh Circuit vacates one-to-one consent rule on robocalls This past week in a robocalls case, “Insurance...
by | Jan 31, 2025 | Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
A new report from ATTOM Data shows that equity-rich locales remain concentrated in certain areas, with at least half of all homes with a mortgage considered equity rich located in more than 40% of U.S. zip codes. A mortgage is considered “equity-rich” if the remaining...
by Beth McGuire | Jan 30, 2025 | Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
Mortgage rates inched lower this week, still hovering below 7% but showing little change since earlier this month. The latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®) released by Freddie Mac Thursday shows the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaging 6.95%, down...
by Beth McGuire | Jan 29, 2025 | Agents, Best Practices, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
Mortgage industry experts pointed to a drop in refinance activity as the overall driver of home purchase applications decreasing this week, although it was only slightly and also indicative of persistently elevated mortgage rates hovering near 7%. According to the...
by | Jan 24, 2025 | Industry News, Latest News, National, News |
The recent jump in the 10-year Treasury yield and the resulting rise in mortgage rates are expected to continue to weigh on existing home sales in the near future, likely keeping them at or near their lowest level since 1995, according to the January 2025 commentary...