Struggling New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), which triggered fears of new bank collapses, could benefit from selling mortgage servicing rights (MSR) to improve its capital ratio, according to analysts at Keefe, Bruyette and Woods (KBW). NYCB became a large mortgage servicer after the acquisition of

Ahead of Friday’s national jobs report, mortgage rates have found stability after increasing for multiple weeks. Polly’s average 30-year fixed rate for conventional loans was 7.17% on Tuesday, down from 7.24% one week earlier, according to HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center. At the same time one ye

The legendary billionaire CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, has found himself at the center of one of the nation’s largest real estate commission lawsuits.In an amended complaint filed on Monday, the plaintiffs in the Gibson commission lawsuit, which was filed in early November in Missouri

The reverse mortgage industry already knew that Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsement volume in 2023 was cut nearly in half compared to 2022, but new data shows that the decline was not the same between the retail and wholesale channels of the business. The pullback in retail was not as