We're hearing it must be great to be a big builder—particularly one of the top 10 publicly traded home builders.

We're hearing about new rules in the works for mortgage and real estate professionals in New York.

In the past two weeks I have written about how critical it is for mortgage companies to have an effective customer satisfaction measurement program.

We're hearing the jumbo interest-only home loan popular with high-net-worth borrowers is still being made for now.

Plenty of financial firms are underprepared or haven’t adequately tested their recovery plans.

We're hearing that it is going to take a concerted industry effort to get a legislative fix for the QM rule on loan officer compensation.

Remember that the three most important words in a real estate deal are location, location, location.

We're hearing from a lot of mortgage originators that read my blog last week about the need to better measure borrower satisfaction with the mortgage process.

We're hearing some institutional investors like a home equity sharing product that serves as a partial downpayment for consumers in return for a share of the home’s appreciation over time.

We're hearing that the mortgage industry has some catching up to do when it comes to implementing electronic signatures.

We're hearing that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will be issuing new guidance on loan officer compensation in June.

In the Illinois Legislature a bill has overwhelmingly passed the House which is designed to reduce the filing of fraudulent documents with the county recorder of deeds.

We're hearing there is a discipline that is completely lacking in the mortgage industry.

We're hearing at the MBA’s secondary market conference that with many housing finance indicators and forecasts suggesting a downshift in refinancing and a modest pickup in purchases on the way, market participants do not want to be caught unprepared.

We're hearing that cloud computing may weigh heavily on the future of mobile device management for the financial services industry—in a good way.