Compliance & Regulation

Lenders and real estate agents may have to extend the usual 30-day timelines for rate locks and sales contracts while they get acclimated to the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau mortgage disclosures that take effect in October.

NetDirector has upgraded its software to improve the accuracy of verifications of borrowers who are members of the military.

North Dakota and Texas have the highest risk that home prices will decline among all states, because of their reliance on the oil industry, according to Arch Mortgage Insurance.

A new crop of P-to-P loan platforms is focusing on commercial real estate loans that get ignored by banks.

JPMorgan Chase has continued to take steps towards satisfying its portion of the residential mortgage-backed securities settlement, according to the independent monitor put in place to track the bank's progress.

Two mortgage servicers have agreed to join a group of peer institutions in following a series of guidelines to address zombie properties in New York State, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday.

Mortgage professionals brave enough to bring mortgage fraud to light deserve the same level of protections as workers in other businesses, rather than be subjected to a patchwork of laws designed for other industries.

The delinquency rate on loans backed by the value of consumers' homes hit a postcrisis low in the first quarter, according to the American Bankers Association.

The technical glitch that suspended trading on the New York Stock Exchange for much of Wednesday shocked Wall Street, but the one-to-one nature of mortgage-backed securities trades meant the secondary mortgage market was not impaired by the outage.

The Greek debt crisis and China's stock-market crash may put downward pressure on interest rates and delay the Fed's interest rate hike, and they are adding uncertainty at a time when lenders thought recovery would be taking hold.