Underwriting

Mortgage Insurers See Applications Fall in June 

A combination of tighter underwriting guidelines and weakening borrower demand helped push the number of applications for mortgage insurance received by members of the Mortgage Insurance Companies of America, an industry trade group, to their lowest level on record in June. Insurers received just 90,896 applications during the month, less than half of year-ago totals, and roughly 17 percent below the number of applications received in May, according to a press statement.