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Borrowing a mortgage to buy or refinance a home can seem daunting, especially when mortgage rates are much higher than they were just a few years ago. But with a little comparison ...

In this excerpt from MortgagePoint magazine’s January cover story, we put federal rural lending and liquidity programs in the spotlight. In this first segment, we take a look at the USDA’s loan ...

For people serving in the military, buying a home can come with unique challenges, especially with frequent relocations and deployments. Fortunately, service members can take advantage of special ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Business Cooperative Service on Friday paused the acceptance, processing and awarding of loan note guarantees to anaerobic digesters for up to 90 days while ...

On today’s Mortgage Law Today at 3PM ET, sponsored by Polunsky Beitel Green, LLP, Brian Levy sits down with Mitch Kider to unpack the shifting legal and regulatory landscape facing mortgage lenders, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has introduced the Lender Lens on the Rural Data Gateway, a tool designed to provide transparency into the USDA's commercial guaranteed loan ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will distribute $12 billion in aid to farmers by Feb. 28. These payments are intended to help farmers cover debts and expenses until other federal funds arrive in ...

If you've been waiting for rates to drop to refinance a 8% mortgage, your time has come. Rates are now the lowest they've been since early 2023. The 30-year fixed-rate hit 6.06% on average during the ...

A leading economist has cautioned that President Donald Trump’s plan to lower home loan costs and improve housing affordability could end up worsening the challenges it is intended to solve. Last week ...

For the whole week, the average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances, $832,750 or less, decreased to 6.18% from 6.25%. Applications for a mortgage to ...