Rates for long-term mortgages rates have fallen to their nadir since before the last presidential election. So reports MarketWatch.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is debating whether to offer more Federal Housing Administration-backed loans. So reports Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the matter.

The First American Loan Application Defect Index for December 2019 finds that the frequency of defects, fraudulence and misrepresentation in the information submitted in mortgage loan applications decreased by 1.5% compared with the previous month.