Finance

Only two of the 17 stocks tracked by the Mortgage Industry Equity Composite index survived the investor selloff during Wednesday.

There is one provider of lender-placed insurance products which said the recent Federal Housing Finance Agency notice on the topic did not go far enough.

MBIA Insurance Corp. received a favorable ruling from the New York Appellate Court, First Department, against Bank of America Corp. and Countrywide Home Loans.

In the latest version of the National Real Estate Post, Brian Stevens and Frank Garay explain how a profitable and well run government-sponsored enterprise is not what Congress wants if they want to eliminate them.

Ocwen Financial has completed its purchase of the reverse mortgage lender Liberty Home Equity Solutions from Genworth Financial.

The deal, K-712, has an estimated size of $1.4 billion.

Fitch Ratings and Kroll Bond Rating Agency have released presale reports on the fifth Sequoia/Redwood Trust jumbo mortgage-backed securitization of the year.

Springleaf is readying another residential mortgage-backed securities deal totaling $835 million, according to a pre-sale report released by Standard & Poor’s April 2.

New seasonally adjusted purchase loan application volume is up 1% for the week ended March 19.

In its 2012 annual report, Fannie Mae noted that most private insurers have lowered their premiums over the past two years for borrowers with high credit scores.

Most mortgage stocks traded at cents on the dollar up or down on Tuesday.

We're hearing the glass in the Florida mortgage investment market is either half empty or half full, depending on where you are and how you look at it.

Fannie Mae acquired nearly 640,500 Home Affordable Refinance Program loans in 2012.

Manhattan apartment prices climbed in the first quarter as buyers competed for properties amid the biggest inventory decline in more than a decade.

Fannie Mae reported fourth-quarter net income of $7.6 billion for the fourth quarter and $17.2 billion for the full year after deciding not to recognize any deferred tax assets until the first quarter of 2013.

With the exception of MGIC, by the end of the day all Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks were in the red.

The demolition of El Paso City Hall to clear way for a downtown baseball stadium will take only eight seconds.

The U.S. government is resisting an effort by Standard & Poor's to move to the federal level a string of lawsuits by states that charge the ratings agency with misleading investors.

The wholesale lending business of 12 Federal Home Loan Banks picked up last year although it doesn’t show up in the top-line figures.

The Bipartisan Policy Center's Housing Commission recommends a model similar to Ginnie Mae, where approved lenders are the issuers of mortgage-backed securities.