Mark Fogarty

We’ve heard many times that the true cause of the mortgage crisis was government meddling in the market to ensure lending to low-income and minority applicants who couldn’t pay it back.

Most mortgage officials feared Jan. 21, 2013 much more than the abortive Doomsday that was supposed to have happened a month earlier.

We celebrate Martin Luther King’s birthday Monday with an ever-growing admiration for his blend of practical and philosophical campaigns against segregation and inequality.

The Congress that just packed up and left after chaotic fiscal cliff maneuverings was a truly Do-Nothing Congress.

The SourceMedia Mortgage Group is expanding its already comprehensive coverage of the industry by creating this Morning Daily Briefing.

Next year, 2013, is the year the mortgage industry shakes off its tepid pace and gets on track for a robust recovery.

The word “tragedy” gets thrown around a lot, but I think it’s true in Mozilo’s case.

The spire for the new World Trade Center will take about three months to put in place and that the oft-delayed New York City building will actually open sometime in 2014.

Rural America is a huge place, though it contains just 21% of the nation’s population.

There’s a new trend among technology vendors that mortgage lenders would be smart to get a handle on.

The worst housing I’ve ever seen is in the border areas adjacent to Mexico.

Originations volume for the third quarter came to $486 billion, a hot quarter indeed.

As long as there are grandchildren in the world, there need be no consequences for the trillions of dollars of debt we’ve rung up.

Our annual Mortgage Technology Conference is returning to Collins Avenue next week after a few years on the road.

Everyone in the business has been searching for a nonagency market for the past several years.

I have been putting out National Mortgage News for more years than I care to admit to and this issue, the Nov. 5 edition, is the hardest I’ve ever had to get out.

Is there any mortgage lender that should turn up their nose at a pot of $100 billion in mortgages? Don’t think so.

Lenders funded a smaller percentage of minority mortgage applications than the national average in every case except for Asians during 2011.

As the mortgage industry gets ready for its biggest meeting of the year they will be thinking about a number of things.

I’m not going to give out the names of the lenders, vendors and servicers that have won our annual Mortgage Technology Awards after all.