The US housing market may be in trouble. One author argues FHA mortgage insurance premium pricing is not likely to drop, despite what others have predicted. Marcus by Goldman Sachs® and HouseCanary roll out a home addition calculator for homeowners considering renovations. Freddie Mac…
Hard stops are data “errors” that cannot be overridden by the lender. When the UAD and the UMDP were first implemented, lenders were allowed to override errors that would pop up when they did their check of the report. Eventually, Fannie Mae and Freddie…
On August 29, Freddie Mac released Bulletin 2018-13 which officially confirmed what almost everyone had already suspected—they are following Fannie Mae’s lead in eliminating the requirement for appraisers to include the 1004MC (Freddie Mac Form 71) as an attachment to appraisal reports. In…
At an industry conference on July 29, 2018, a Fannie Mae spokesperson announced that Fannie would be making revisions to its Selling Guide, effective in August 2018. Perhaps the most significant planned revision will be the elimination of the requirement for appraisers to include…
As a result of the last U.S. economic crisis, a lot of people now know a lot more about the secondary mortgage market. Before the crisis, the secondary mortgage market was a mystery to most Americans, and it was only really important to mortgage…
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have issued a joint press release formally announcing what many industry insiders already suspected—the GSEs are planning revisions to the Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD) and their appraisal reporting forms, including the Uniform Residential Appraisal Report (URAR). The GSEs have…
The Senate tax bill continues to be top news in the real estate industry, but even with an adjustment favoring the middle-class homeowner, pros are not happy. More and more housing markets across the country are overvalued; what does this mean for the real…
Most real estate agents know that it’s been tough for Millennials to get into their first homes, and it appears one of the main reasons is because of massive student debt. Hurricane Harvey has hit homeowners hard, but those in the luxury market are…
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