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MBA Applauds Efforts to Improve Loan Repurchase Requests; Calls for Better Alignment at the GSEs
MBA President and CEO Bob Broeksmit, CMB, issued a statement regarding recent moves by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to address loan repurchase requests.
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CoreLogic: Delinquencies Nearly Flat in December
CoreLogic, Irvine, Calif., reported the national overall mortgage delinquency rate was 3.1% in December, up by 0.1 percentage point year-over-year from December 2022 and 0.2 percentage point from November.
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MBA Chart of the Week: IMB Average UPB of Repurchased/Indemnified Loans
MBA Research recently analyzed repurchase and indemnification volume over a five-year period from the third quarter of 2018 through the third quarter of 2023.
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ICE Mortgage Monitor: 2023 Saw Three-Decade Low in Originations
Intercontinental Exchange Inc., Atlanta, released its Mortgage Monitor report for March, featuring some full-year 2023 insights. Among those, the report recorded only 4.3 million mortgages as originated in 2023, the lowest since ICE began tracking the data 30 years ago.
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Many Aspiring Homeowners Cite Cost of Living, Insufficient Income as Roadblocks: Bankrate
More than half of aspiring homeowners say the current cost of living is too high or their income is not high enough to afford a down payment and closing costs for a home (51% and 54% respectively), reported Bankrate, New York.