Loan Think

This has cost real estate agents in Tuscaloosa, Ala. nearly $10 million in commissions, the author says.

The real estate industry should distance itself from presenting the purchase of a primary residence as “the biggest investment of one’s life.” Rather, homeownership provides an incentive to save.

Lenders should consider carefully the potential for originators to steer borrowers from closed-end products into open-ended loans.

The success of your mortgage origination business may very well depend on making changes to certain components of your operation.

There are plenty of companies waiting for a secondary mortgage market to develop for these high-margin loans.

Hendrix Montecastro and his mother were both convicted in a $142 million scheme.

The appraisal industry has seen many changes within the past few years, and with greater oversight and scrutiny coming from every direction—appraisers are under the microscope.

Some advice on learning to "play well with others" in your office.

Modified loans represent a potentially volatile portfolio that could become increasingly unstable over the next several years as loan modifications begin to reset.

The contest, as it were, is not really over when the big game ends.