Most people never encounter the concept of escrow until they buy a home. Escrow accounts are set up by third parties as a safe place to hold money. They are used for two main purposes when it comes to ...

An escrow account, also known as an impound account, is a holding area for assets that can be traded, such as money or stocks. In the case of real estate, a lender might require higher-risk borrowers ...

Expected escrow payment increases might be the biggest challenge of the year for homeowners—especially in the South and ...

Home insurance is not just creeping higher going into 2026, it is resetting the baseline for what you pay into escrow every ...

In a move that the company is calling a first of its kind, United Wholesale Mortgage announced Tuesday that it is eliminating the 0.25% escrow waiver fee nationwide for all conforming conventional ...

Talk about a market on fire. I worked an open house two weeks ago, prequalifying potential homebuyers in the $600,000 price range. Perhaps 100 people stampeded through the open house in a three-hour ...

Isabella County is on its way to being ready for solar farms. After approving application fees for solar farms in May 2021, county commissioners recently approved setting solar farm escrow fees at ...

Anyone who sold their single-family home or condo in Seven Oaks from October 2016 to July 2017 might be owed a refund on some of their escrow-related fees. The challenge now, according to the ...