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In a filing, the company's subservicing subsidiary Loancare said 1.3 million customers had their data compromised, while in an ongoing situation, customers of fellow title insurer First American find themselves without email or online access after a separate incident last week.

Values declined in two regions and were flat in two others, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Stephen P. Winterstein is a strategic partner of the communications firm  Flat98 Strategies & Communications LLC. He is a former chief municipal strategist and managing director of research at Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors. Stephen holds an MBA from Lehigh University and bachelor's degree in economics from Millersville University.

F. Hale Stewart Jr., JD, LL.M. is an attorney at Zerbe, Miller, Fingeret, Frank and Jadav LLP and the author of U.S. Captive Insurance Law, Captive Insurance in Plain English and the recently published Designing a Risk Financing Program.

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index measures a period when 30-year mortgage rates were climbing toward 8%, shutting out increasing numbers of would-be homebuyers.

Changes affecting market pricing and court actions with game-changing potential were among the leading policy developments in housing finance last year.

Federal regulators will look to finalize capital rules for banks with at least $100 billion of assets. Here's what to look for as the contentious regulations move through the rulemaking process.

The A1 tranche of $172 million (66.8%) is rated as AAA by Fitch and KBRA.