ICE Mortgage Monitor shows serious delinquencies up 25% in four-month span
Mortgage delinquency rates are increasing modestly from historic low points as declining cure rates push more borrowers into serious distress, even as affordability has improved on a year-over-year basis, according to Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)’s April 2026 Mortgage Monitor. The report, which d
Presupposition is the mistake: Why housing marketing doesn’t meet the bar
Though I’ve never taken a marketing class, I remember fellow students quoting the famous Philip Kotler, who said that marketing is “the creation of demand.” Simplistic to be sure, but a useful shorthand for that many-splendored thing that many of us do for a living. We market to create demand, whi
How is the housing market weathering war-time economics?
War-time economics have, of course, sent gas prices skyrocketing, but have also pushed mortgage rates higher over the last five weeks, from a low of 5.99% to a high of 6.64%. Rates have fallen a bit recently, but higher rates have slowed some of the housing data down. In the past, mortgage rates abo
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