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Sales forces can command the responsibility for lending tens of millions of dollars in home loans each year, but often the actual amount of training they get remains minimal.

The rate of home price growth increased rapidly early in 2013, and after a brief summer pause, home prices have again picked up as we near the end of the year.

Mel Watt, set to become director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is making both agency and non-agency MBS investors nervous.

Federal Reserve data show the rate of decline in mortgage debt outstanding has slowed in recent quarters, while housing market trends suggest it could start growing again in the near future.

Default management is a continuous, cumbersome process with multiple touch points and outcomes, therefore more susceptible to risk.

Well-developed brands have a higher return on investment when it comes to generating new business.

Maintaining a compensation distinction is very risky in the event that the brokered products are viable alternatives for borrowers and could essentially compete against self-funded alternatives.

Readers can now comment on virtually all (and soon, all) content on National Mortgage News’ website. The first comments from readers prefigure some lively interactivity to come.

The company was sued by a borrower over allegations of not properly disclosing payment option adjustable rate mortgages.

Health care isn’t the only troubling national insurance issue, as anyone with a mortgage near a waterfront already knows. So is flood insurance.