Younger homeowners more often say they rushed through the buying process and have regrets about their mortgage, likely resulting from the challenges young buyers face entering today’s expensive housing market. Still, homeowners of all ages are, for the most part, ...

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Home-value growth is slowing, price cuts are more common and for-sale inventory is up. Sounds like relief is imminent for home buyers, right? Not so fast. Mortgage rates have been steadily climbing for the past two years and could approach ...

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Genworth Mortgage Insurance, an operating segment of Genworth Financial, Inc. has released the First-Time Homebuyer Market Report from its Chief Economist, Tian Liu, for the third quarter of 2018. The report aggregates all publicly available government data and proprietary mortgage industry ...

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The combination of rising home prices and interest rates creates a doubly challenging environment for would-be home buyers, making monthly mortgage payments on even modestly priced homes more of a financial burden. A monthly mortgage payment for the typical U.S. ...

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LendingTree has released its study on where Americans are spending within (and beyond) their means across the U.S. To determine where people can afford their financial obligations, LendingTree analysts combed through anonymized credit report data of My LendingTree users from ...

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The combination of rising rates and strong home value appreciation led to one of the largest recorded quarterly increases in the mortgage burden for homebuyers since the Great Recession. In the first quarter of 2018, the share of median income needed ...

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  Mortgage lenders reported a net negative profit margin outlook for the seventh consecutive quarter, as rising home prices and tight housing supply continue to put a squeeze on mortgage demand, according to Fannie Mae’s Q2 2018 Mortgage Lender Sentiment ...

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aboutMYmortgage.com has announced that it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Spring EQ to be the preferred provider of Home Equity Loans. Now any aboutMYmortgage.com Preferred Servicer not currently providing home equity loans will have a turn-key solution to ...

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Q:     Reading this week’s Sunday paper and your response to the gentleman’s question about removing his name from the mortgage. You can’t simply release a person from a mortgage note without some sort of refinance that satisfies the original note ...

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LendingTree has released its monthly Mortgage Offers Report which analyzes data from actual loan terms offered to borrowers on LendingTree.com by lenders on LendingTree’s network. The purpose of the report is to empower consumers by providing additional information on how their credit ...

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