Mortgage lenders are having a hard time sourcing affordable, prompt property appraisals. We discuss this challenge with SWBC's Chief Valuation Officer, Chuck Mureddu.

With refinances plummeting, it’s more important than ever for lenders to optimize profitability by finding ways to take time and cost out of the origination process.

The Mortgage Bankers Association and National Fair Housing Alliance announced a new online toolkit for mortgage lenders interested in developing Special Purpose Credit Programs, which permit lenders to offer mortgage credit to economically and socially disadvantaged borrowers and are an important tool for ensuring financial institutions can meet the needs of their consumers.

D2 Capital Advisors, Philadelphia, arranged $18.2 million in construction financing for a 47-unit affordable housing property in Aurora, Ill.

MBA Chair Kristy Fercho joined national and local leaders in Atlanta on Monday to mark the one-year anniversary of the Black Homeownership Collaborative.

They’re now legal almost nationwide and they were boosted by the pandemic. But they’re still not the mainstream of closings. Here’s why they should be.

The trend we address in this short narrative is the shrinking playing field for first-time homebuyers who are more and more being shut out of buying opportunities by institutional cash buyers and losing the attendant opportunity for the creation of generational wealth.

Bruno Pasceri is President of Incenter LLC, Fort Washington, Pa., which helps mortgage bankers optimize processes and improve performance.