Redfin, Seattle, said new home sales rose by 8.8% year over year in the fourth quarter, the biggest gain in more than two years and the third consecutive quarter of increases, driving continued depletion of inventory in the market.

John Vong, CMB, CMT, is president and co-founder of ComplianceEase, Burlingame, Calif., and a frequent contributor to MBA NewsLink.

Today, everything from mortgage lending to online banking uses technology to help save time. In the past few years, technology has gone from a luxury to a necessity and with that shift has come a flood of new technologies that automate nearly every process out there. This is also true of mortgage lending.

During an age of mass economic disruption and customer reorientation, innovative leaders will wrestle not only with the challenges of reskilling existing workforces, but also must filter every initiative through politics, social chaos and industry axioms if they are to add clarity to the Innovation Predicament.

On Sunday, we kicked off CREF 2020--MBA's 2020 Commercial Real Estate Finance/Multifamily Housing Convention & Expo, with an economic and mortgage market update. One of the main messages: the commercial/multifamily markets ended 2019 on a very strong note.

SAN DIEGO--The Mortgage Bankers Association released its year-end ranking of commercial and multifamily mortgage servicers’ volumes as of December 31, here at the MBA 2020 Commercial Real Estate Finance/Multifamily Housing Convention & Expo.