An arbitrator conclusion issued last week caps a four-year legal battle over allegations of trade secret theft involving two of the biggest companies in the housing industry, Black Knight Servicing Technologies and PennyMac Financial Services. In a 2019 lawsuit, Black Knight accused Pennymac of copy

When individual mortgages are originated by lenders like banks or credit unions, they maybundle groups of these mortgages together into financial vehicles called mortgage-backedsecurities (MBS) that are then sold to investors on a secondary market. This allows investors to gain exposure and returns

If you had your eye on a house or neighborhood in a certain price point but weren’t able to borrow enough for a loan, your luck may change in 2024.

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and December is well under way, we can start looking ahead to the 2024 housing market.New listings and home sales remain low this week while available inventory of unsold homes is finally falling across the country after rising with mortgage rates late into Novembe