Amilda Dymi

Year-over-year Illinois home sales increased 25.3% in April marking the best spring performance since 2007.

Residential Finance Corp. is offering the “Foreign National Loan Program” designed to meet the special needs of foreign-born buyers.

The consumer relief data sent to the mortgage settlement monitor show that within the first year since servicers signed the agreement they have distributed $50.63 billion in direct relief to customers.

All eyes are on Texas legislators who in the next few days will determine how the state may use roughly $124.7 million in national mortgage settlement while some insiders worry about potential diversions.

Indecomm Global Services has completed the acquisition of Mortgage U Inc., a mortgage training company that focuses on regulatory compliance.

Fay Servicing is seeking to hire experienced mortgage professionals living in the greater Chicago area.

After hiring more than 50 new employees since January, Churchill Mortgage is restructuring its business management hierarchy.

Financial services provider NewOak Capital has opened NewOak Credit Services LLC in Danbury, Conn.

In the past two years, 85% of Hispanics were engaged in online banking, compared to 74% of all U.S. households.

The Federal Savings Bank, which is owned and operated by military veterans, has opened its Northeast flagship loan production office in Manhattan.

News about the flood-tested endurance of a structure in the Chicago area is music to the ears of everyone who has witnessed any of the super storms that keep hitting our shores.

A study suggests the prospect of 2.1 million additional homeowners by 2020 should be a plausible reason for legislators to work harder on a comprehensive benchmark immigration reform.

A commercial real estate market recovery combined with fresh demand for apartments and office properties continue to push commercial property price indices up and commercial mortgage-backed securities default rates down.

The March FNC Residential Price Index data add to a growing list of research findings that confirm the U.S. housing market continues to recover at a steady and persistent pace.

Persistent economic concerns will slow down the pace of recent commercial real estate performance improvements, according to Moody's.

Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp. has agreed to acquire certain assets from the Alliant Co. for $62.8 million.

To better serve the needs of homeowners in New York SafeGuard Credit Counseling Services is using the IndiSoft RxOffice Premium Counselor Edition platform.

Wells Fargo has upgraded to $3.2 million a fund designated to compensate African-American and Hispanic borrowers in Philadelphia who allegedly suffered from predatory lending practices.

New findings reveal a large number of Americans still know little about credit scores.

Housing price gains and the critical role of valuations during the recovery may require lenders to watch over an appraiser’s shoulder.