MBA Advocacy at MBA Annual22

Advocacy for MBA members has been a cornerstone of the Mortgage Bankers Association since its inception nearly 110 years ago. And at MBA Annual22, you have the opportunity to put advocacy into action.

Welcome to MBA Annual22

MBA NewsLink welcomes you to this special MBA Annual Convention & Expo edition.

MBA Chart of the Week Oct. 14 2022: Housing Costs

This week’s Chart of the Week highlights different measures of housing costs, all indexed to 2018. The lowest lines are the CPI measures of shelter costs, including the “’all-in” shelter measure and breakouts for rents and owners’ equivalent rents.

MBA Advocacy Update Oct. 17, 2022

On Thursday, MBA and several industry trade groups – as part of the Black Homeownership Collaborative – submitted a letter to HUD urging the agency to reduce the annual mortgage insurance premium and suspend the life of loan requirement for borrowers with FHA-insured loans.

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“The overall number of loans in forbearance dropped in September, but the pace of forbearance exits slowed to a new survey low and new forbearance requests continued to come in. This dynamic in turn prevented any substantial improvement in the forbearance rate.”
–Marina Walsh, CMB, MBA Vice President of Industry Analysis.