The Mortgage Bankers Association and MBA NewsLink are accepting nominations for the MBA NewsLink 2020 Tech All-Star Awards. Nominations will be accepted through Friday, Jan. 10.

CoreLogic, Irvine, Calif., released its monthly Loan Performance Insights Report, showing 3.8% of mortgages were in some stage of delinquency in September, an 0.6 percentage point decline from a year ago.

Redfin, Seattle said 10 percent of offers written by Redfin agents on behalf of their homebuying customers saw a bidding war in November, down from 29% a year earlier and hovering at the 10-year low for the fifth consecutive month.

On Thursday, the Financial Stability Oversight Council issued its 2019 Annual Report on the state of financial markets and potential emerging risks. On Tuesday, HUD published two Mortgagee Letters that raise FHA forward mortgage limit “floors” and “ceilings,” as well as the maximum claim amount for HECMs. Last week, FASB issued an update on new CECL standards.

MBA is proud to recognize its Premier and Select Associate Members and to thank them for their continued support of MBA and the real estate finance industry.

MISMO, the mortgage industry standards organization, invites the mortgage industry to participate in an effort to enhance its residential appraisal data standards. This effort will evaluate new types of property information that may be useful to the industry.