Loan Think

If he really wants to win reelection in 2024, President Biden and his administration should leave the mortgage industry in peace and find somebody else to torment, the Chairman of Whalen Global Advisors writes.

The reductions in the multifamily goals for 2023 to 2024 compared to those from the period before suggest that these goals will have little, if any, impact on the GSEs' multifamily operations in future years, writes a former principal economist with the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

The most extreme example of FOMC interest rate market manipulation in 2020 to 2021 has now created a huge potential risk for lenders and investors, writes the chairman of Whalen Global Advisors.

The pending merger of Black Knight and ICE threatens to create a monopoly not unlike Ticketmaster, writes the chief executive officer of Figure Technologies.

Title insurers are lobbying Congress eliminate alternatives to their products, writes the founder of iTitleTransfer.

The FHFA should focus on the facts as it ponders the future of the Federal Home Loan Bank System.

Replacing title policies with attorney opinion letters could exacerbate consumer and lender risks now and into the future, writes the president of Incenter's Boston National Title Agency.

We should use the extra time we have to increase our focus on helping people wherever they are in the housing journey, writes the Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Clear Capital.

Republican control of the House of Representatives means that CFPB could be sidelined for years, writes the Chairman of Whalen Global Advisors

The merger and the consolidation of the mortgage industry would not only reduce the ability for Latinos to participate in homeownership, the effects could cascade to the overall population writes the CEO of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals