Mortgages

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed requiring that mortgage servicers exhaust all efforts at assisting struggling borrowers before moving ahead with a foreclosure.

Declining refinance activity offset the growth in government-backed purchases, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

The bank acquired these business purpose non-qualified mortgage loans originated by Civic Financial Services in the PacWest Bancorp deal.

The securitization from the Boston-based fintech was "significantly oversubscribed," according to the company.

Household borrowing from mortgages and other loans hit a record, outpacing inflation, a study shows.

Fitch Ratings views home price values in the non-prime mortgage pool as being 11.1% above a long-term sustainable level.

The trust's sixth issue of the year is backed by higher-income borrowers.

The collateral is a single loan secured by first-priority mortgages in a pool of 2,070 single-family homes.

The plan from the Heritage Foundation, a group the first Trump administration was largely in line with, would shutter CFPB, break up HUD and raise FHA premiums.

But economists seem to differ on what the latest movement in mortgage rates means for the summer home sales business.