MISMO Announces New Additions to Board of Directors 

MISMO, the real estate finance industry’s standards organization, today announced two new additions to its Board of Directors: Patrick Hartford, Vice President, Architecture and Engineering, at Rocket Mortgage, and Giuseppe “Joe” Lucido, Senior Vice President, Operations, at United Wholesale Mortgage.

Housing Market Roundup

In this edition of the MBA NewsLink Housing Market Roundup, we look at the latest FHFA Strategic Plan; how consumers are altering their home buying and home selling plans during the coronavirus pandemic; why housing affordability might be at a “tipping point;” how the coronavirus is driving down inventories; and how political preferences are having an effect on where people choose to live–or even stay in America.