The spring homebuying season ended with a thud in 2024.

The groups noted that the availability of property insurance in California is declining and prices are rising.

The CFPB issued a proposed order that would require Freedom Mortgage to pay a $3.95 million penalty for submitting “error-riddled” data under HMDA.

FHA is taking comments through June 24 on a draft mortgagee letter.

J-T Gaietto, chief operating officer at ConvergentDS, a firm that helps assess cyber risks, said obtaining cybersecurity insurance “isn’t the easiest thing to accomplish.”

Home prices are slowing and an expected decline in interest rates could prompt further changes in the trajectory of home prices.

The Mortgage Bankers Association quarterly performance report found similar, though somewhat bleaker, results.

Many of these types of cases are settled out of court, one attorney noted...

“There have been just two months in the past decade with fewer home sales [than in May 2024]: October 2023, when mortgage rates jumped to a 23-year high, and May 2020, when the onset of the pandemic brought the housing market to a halt and home sales to a record low,” Redfin said.

The Fed’s actions Wednesday didn’t change the MBA’s forecast for mortgage rates.