Amilda Dymi

Colony American Homes has completed a securitization transaction backed by income generated from almost 3,400 single-family rental homes.

The number of underwater homeowners who received principal reductions on their mortgages through the Keep Your Home California program increased dramatically in 2013.

CoreLogic has agreed to add Equifax's the Work Number platform to Credco, its verification-of-employment service.

Prospective homeowners are increasingly more optimistic, with 38% of respondents to Fannie Mae's March 2014 National Housing Survey saying it is a good time to sell a home, compared to 26% a year ago.

Housing market trends continue to show improvement in February as housing prices stabilize and foreclosure starts decrease to 2005 levels, according to the March installment of the Obama administration's Housing Scorecard.

The Mortgage Bankers Association urged the Senate and House finance committees to pass the Expiring Provisions Improvement Reform and Efficiency Act, saying the bill contains "several critical provisions" for real estate financing markets and the economic recovery.

Trepp has launched TreppTrade Quick Analysis, a free tool that enables banks and commercial real estate companies to calculate cash flows and price yields on commercial mortgage-backed securities.

Commerce Mortgage appointed 28-year industry veteran Shabi Asghar as president of its wholesale real estate lending.

For the first time since the financial crisis of 2008, consumers are prioritizing their mortgages ahead of their credit card payments, according to TransUnion.

Home sales in California fell 13.7% in February from a year earlier, the seventh monthly decline in a row, as housing inventory increased, according to the California Association of Realtors.

National lender hires more than 30 let go by Green Tree, one of several lenders leaving the market.

Tree.com, the parent of LendingTree, increased fourth-quarter revenue by more than half from a year earlier, a feat the company credited to strategy changes and new products.

Hope LoanPort has started new collaborative partnerships with several national organizations to collectively provide foreclosure-related fraud prevention assistance to homeowners.

In the judicial foreclosure states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, savings for various stakeholders could amount to at least $24 million annually, researchers at the Cleveland Fed estimate.

Home equity lending increased for the first time last year but overall mortgage originations in January were the lowest since November 2008, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

Improving housing markets continued to push down the overall delinquency rate of commercial and multifamily mortgages in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The acquisition is the latest in a series of diversification steps by Carrington which started as an investor in mortgage-backed securities and over the years branched into servicing and originating loans.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors named Robert Niemi the new ombudsman of the National Mortgage Licensing System and Registry.

A proposal to limit increases in basic allowances for housing and reduce military personnel could hurt the performance of some military housing bonds, Fitch Ratings warns.

Mortgage Network in Danvers, Mass., has opened its first office in neighboring Rhode Island.