Amilda Dymi

Housing realities appear to contradict the popular belief that older homeowners can downsize a home to make the mortgage loan and living costs more affordable.

We're hearing the controversial idea that downpayment assistance can be a financially sound endeavor apparently is not dead.

As the mortgage market increases the use of upfront automated audits to comply with regulation, homeowners are being offered the opportunity to review whether lenders and servicers are up to the task.

Issues related to default risk and losses associated with delinquent HOAs are the iceberg many in the industry still fail to see.

Americans who inherited good financial habits from their parents, represent 62% of the borrowers who have a financial plan, are confident in their financial future and also are less likely to default on a mortgage loan.

TD Bank is offering a new mortgage loan product alternative to Federal Home Administration loans.

Hurricane Sandy may have given a final push into special servicing to the $103.5 million Long Island Marriott and Conference Center hotel loan.

Peachtree Hotel Group has embarked in a fast-growth strategy that has been 24 months in the making and will continue in 2013.

Nationstar Mortgage Holdings has priced $300 million in asset-backed term notes.

A trend of sequential increases in credit-risk-related provision expenses by the largest U.S. banks reported in the fourth quarter will likely continue through 2013.

A number of short-term housing indicators show improvement in some of the most important metro areas in the country where home prices increased significantly in 2012.

Clayton Holdings is responding to the growing volume of MSR transactions generated by recent regulatory changes.

The trickledown effect of mortgage default servicing compliance requirements has tangled into a laborious process various entities.

Following “a banner year for the multifamily market” in 2012, another good year is ahead—if capital becomes available.

The number of mortgages in the process of foreclosure but with no resolution for all loan types improved during the first three quarters of 2012.

Servicers need to pay more attention to changes in home prices and how they relate to delinquency rates.

Continuous demand for cloud-based document imaging technology helped more than double Capsilon's revenue in 2012 and may lead to further growth this year.

Global commercial real estate investors favor “safe haven locations” in Europe, according to a real estate forecast published jointly by the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Increases in spending in the second half of 2012 suggest a remodeling recovery is already underway.

The idea that downpayment assistance can be a financially sound endeavor apparently is not dead.