Given the current economic uncertainty, a lot of attention is being paid to the health of the labor market. Overall, it is fair to say that the job market is still healthy but continues to weaken.

Class Valuation’s Ashlee Randall writes that fundamental transformation doesn’t come often to the valuation space, “but when it does, it changes everything. That’s precisely what the Uniform Appraisal Dataset 3.6 is poised to do.”

The convergence of three factors makes 2025 a pivotal year for mortgage operations, Prudent AI Co-founder Jayendran GS writes.

MBA's Disaster Recovery: A Resource for Homeowners outlines what homeowners can do before and after a disaster, along with how to start and work through the recovery process.

The rise of home equity lending is a hot topic in the mortgage industry. Deephaven Mortgage’s Tom Davis is excited about non-QM lenders’ ability to accelerate this segment’s growth.

Industry personnel news from the Ohio MBA, ACES, Mayer Brown, Rate, Planet Home Lending, Merchants Mortgage and CMG Home Loans.