Image CEO Stephen Budorick stresses the REIT’s commitment to delivering results, creating underlying asset...

Rate-and-term refinances rose 25.6% in May as mortgage rates trended down, according to a new report by Optimal Blue. The spike was a response to a modest drop in the 30-year conforming mortgage rate, which dropped to 6.8% on May 15 but ultimately ended the month at 7.02% on the Optimal Blue Mortgage Market Indices (OBMMI). “The sharp increase in demand for rate-and-term refinances following a dip in...

The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) this week released the 10th edition of its annual Top 250 Latino Mortgage Originators rankings, honoring the top-performing Latino mortgage originators across the country. For the second year running, DHI Mortgage earned the top position in the report among all companies, followed by Guaranteed Rate and CrossCountry Mortgage,...

Multichannel mortgage lender New American Funding (NAF) announced this week the relaunch of its initiative designed to recruit, educate and expand loan officer understanding around issues faced by borrowers of color as “NAF Black Impact.” This replaces the previous branding, “NAF Dream,” to emphasize a corporate commitment to “taking direct, action-oriented steps to address credit...

The Alliance of Comprehensive Planners (ACP), a trade association for financial planners, will be holding its annual conference this October in Savannah, Georgia, and the event will feature two of the nation’s leading reverse mortgage lenders as key sponsors. Plano, Texas-based Finance of America (FOA), currently the industry leader in the reverse mortgage space, and Paramus, New Jersey-based reverse...

According to the most recent Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsement data compiled by Reverse Market Insight (RMI), Annapolis, Maryland-based South River Mortgage is the ninth-largest reverse mortgage lender in the country with 496 endorsements in the 12-month period ending May 31. After hitting milestones in recent years, including a rollout of a proprietary reverse mortgage product and...

Follow these laundry guidelines to ensure your exercise gear stays in tip-top shape. Getty Images / olegkalina Washing workout clothes can sometimes feel more challenging than the workout itself: In addition to requiring special handling to eliminate stains and odors from sweat and other body soils, the fabrics used in exercise gear often need to be washed in a specific way to prevent damage. To...

Refresh your space with furniture, pots, and more. Better Homes & Gardens / Tyler Roeland It’s not too late to  outfit your deck, porch, or patio with comfortable pieces that are as functional as they are stylish. Our line at Walmart has tons of pieces that meet the mark for every outdoor furniture style—and these 15 shopper-favorites are on sale for as little as $10. Best BHG x Walmart...

Learning how to prune thyme will ensure bushy, vigorous plants full of new growth for your kitchen use. Jurgute / Getty Images If you have just one thyme plant in a container, you may be harvesting enough to encourage plenty of fresh new growth–use it in garlic-thyme sauce or thyme-roasted chicken. But knowing how to prune thyme can help when your plant starts getting leggy or straggly. Keeping...

When Kansas couple Calvin and Amy Girard bought their 1952 brick home in 2012, they knew they would one day have to do something about the extremely tight kitchen and its lack of countertop space and cabinet storage. They kept putting it off for years until things started going awry. In 2021, the...