Mortgage & Economy
Mortgage rates, Federal Reserve policy, employment, inflation, and what they mean for Bay Area affordability.
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Weak July Jobs Report Could Delay Fed Rate Hike, Giving Homebuyers Some Mortgage-Rate Relief
Takeaway: Mortgage rates will see a little relief today on the heels of a weak jobs report that may delay anticipated hikes from the Fed. The economy unexpectedly lost jobs in July, the second month in a row of surprisingly weak data, casting doubt on the theory that the labor market has rebounded. The economy…
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UWM pays up for capital as it resets leverage targets
UWM is raising $1.65 billion in preferred equity, including $1.5 billion from Oaktree and $150 million from the Ishbia family, plus a $400 million rights offering.
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Stewart Title expands Mid-Atlantic footprint
Founded nearly 15 years ago, the acquired firm provides title services across Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
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NYC expands finance pool for office-to-residential makeovers
New York City administration officials took a stride toward spurring more office-to-residential conversions by expanding a long-term financing option used in clean energy construction. In late June, the city made embodied carbon eligible for financing under its Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy program, known as C-PACE. Embodied carbon refers to emissions locked into a building’s…
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Senator moves to regulate home equity investments at the federal level
Legislation would require HEIs to comply with the same disclosure and consumer protection requirements as many traditional mortgage loans.
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Public record-linked AI misses key title issues in many searches
According to the analysis, the largest gaps involved high-risk issues such as involuntary liens, where the issue fail rate exceeded 36%.
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Squeezed NYC affordable housing properties face reckoning
New York City’s regulated affordable housing sector is confronting a worsening financial squeeze, and a reckoning is coming unless solutions emerge, according to a new survey of owners, managers, lenders and other industry participants. The survey by affordable housing nonprofit NYC Housing Partnership found that 62% of respondents said operating costs have risen to unsustainable…
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Q2 2026 earnings for publicly traded mortgage, real estate and homebuilder companies
As earnings results wrap up for Q2 2026, here’s a rundown of what’s happened for major lenders, brokerages, homebuilders, listing portals and title firms.
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Are data centers the next constraint on affordable housing supply?
[Editor’s note: This is part 2 of a 3-part HousingWire special series on the impacts of data centers in housing. Part 1 is here.] In 1998, when Steve Alloy succeeded his father, Martin, as president of Northern Virginia-based Stanley Martin Homes, buying land wisely was, as it is now, both a point of pride and…
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Rocket weathers spring housing slowdown, gaining purchase and refi share in Q2
Rocket Companies reported high second-quarter earnings on Thursday, driven by increased mortgage origination volume, servicing income and record market share gains in both purchase and refinance lending, even as the broader housing market remained challenging.









