MISMO’s new white paper explains how standardized consumer-facing fee naming can cut TRID cure costs and improve mortgage fee transparency.

Getting the 10-year yield and mortgage rates to pre-conflict lows will be harder than people think even if this conflict is truly over.

Atlas VMS says 8.3% of HECM loans needed a second appraisal in Q1 2026 versus 10.4% in Q4 2025, adding cost and time.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill that increases benefits for veterans and their surviving families, offsetting the cost by raising fees on VA refinance transactions.

The proposed funding is designed to expand access to construction financing for homeowners affected by last year’s Southern California wildfires by helping to bridge the gap between insurance payouts and actual rebuilding costs.

California lawmakers are adding muscle to the state’s five-year-old starter home law to prevent cities and counties from quietly neutralizing it through local rules. Senate Bill 1116, which passed the state Senate on May 20 without a single no vote, would strengthen the Starter Home Revitalization Act, a 2021 law requiring local governments to fast-track […]