Pearland’s 120-acre orchard advances with plans for 1,200 homes.
Private lenders: Financing opportunity for a 120-acre mixed-use development in Pearland with ~1,200 homes, retail and office; construction progressing. Now
Hines acquires 1,476 acres for 3,800‑home Fort Worth community.
Private lenders: Hines buys 1,476-acre Brown Ranch in Fort Worth for a 3,800-home, multi-phase development - large-scale residential financing opportunity.
TransUnion and Equifax introduce ‘score later’ tools for mortgage lenders.
Mortgage lenders are implementing workflows that let them retrieve full credit files without immediately delivering credit scores, then append scores later in the process. By decoupling the score from the file, originators gain greater control over early borrower interactions—allowing preliminary eligibility checks, streamlined prequalification [...]
Remodelers Remain Steady Amid Labor Shortages and Rising Costs.
Remodeling demand rose, but labor shortfalls, higher material costs and buyers caution are shrinking pipelines-raising underwriting risk to private lenders.
Trump forms panel to probe Fed’s Lisa Cook over alleged mortgage fraud.
A governing panel has announced a formal hearing that could produce a recommendation to remove her from office “for cause.” That standard implies alleged misconduct or failures sufficiently serious to justify forced separation and will trigger a fact-finding process that weighs evidence, testimony and [...]
Freddie Mac selects buyers for $428 million of delinquent home loans.
Freddie Mac sold four pools totaling 1,968 deeply delinquent mortgages (unpaid principal $428M) to VRMTG ACQ and Igloo Series VII Trust—buyer details info.
Will ChatGPT recommend you when clients request an agent?
AI systems assessing mortgage agents increasingly rely on a mosaic of inputs beyond an agent’s self-reported claims. Lenders and platforms are feeding models with transactional histories, third‑party reviews, licensing and disciplinary records, communication logs, marketing footprints and public data to build a fuller profile [...]
June Point Lending expands DSCR program to California, its 19th state.
Wholesale non-QM lender June Point extends DSCR investor mortgage coverage into California increasing reach to 19 states and expands lending options.
Indecomm launches AuditGenius to link mortgage QC findings to guidelines.
A new compliance and quality-control tool is being presented to the industry that ties every automated finding directly to page-level evidence, creating a clear, auditable trail between system conclusions and the source documents they reference. By anchoring flags and exceptions to the exact pages [...]
Fitch Predicts Limited Near-Term AI Impact on Mortgage and Title Insurers.
Fitch's AI stress test finds limited disruption for mortgage/title insurers, highlighting cybersecurity, privacy and counterparty risks for private lenders.