"Mart 2026" Arşivleri

Military families and veterans don’t buy homes the way most civilians do. They move on short notice and often finalize purchases from hundreds or thousands of miles away. When you add a VA home loan into the mix, some lenders and agents assume the transaction is headed for trouble before it even starts. That assumption…

“Just when I think things are falling in place, another wild card arrives,” Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) president and CEO Bob Broeksmit said Tuesday morning at ICE Experience’s X26 annual mortgage conference.  In a conversation with ICE Mortgage Technology President Bob Hart that spanned recent executive orders, mergers and acquisitions, and artificial intelligence, Broeksmit admitted…

Top banks in the mortgage space, which have relied on a similar playbook for years, say they could become more active if upcoming changes to capital rules provide more flexibility, several industry executives told HousingWire. But any shift in strategy is expected to take time. Depositories typically focus on their existing customer base, ranging from…

Pending home sales picked up slightly in February as affordability improved, but they remain below 2025 levels, according to data released Tuesday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR).  The trade group’s Pending Home Sales Index rose 1.8% from January to a reading of 72.1 in February. This is 0.8% below the index’s February 2025…