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Having a specialty or a niche helps to keep your business away from being at the mercy of interest rate shoppers.

Social media broadly distributes information to users of financial services, yet also creates a new sphere for potential compliance risks, especially for servicers.

Here are some easy ways to introduce your loan origination group to your clients.

What you don't know about a builder's operation could do more than delay your client’s project. It could sink your business.

The government-sponsored enterprises' changes to their representations and warranties regulations could increase lending — and some risks. Here's the downside to the move and how lenders can mitigate related concerns.

Now that the FY 2014 Actuarial Review has confirmed that FHA is back on solid financial footing, it is time to focus on the only disappointment in the review of forward mortgages — FHA's volume decline and its implications for lower income and minority families who rely on FHA financing.

Appraisers are often the only party involved in a real estate transaction that has no "skin in the game," unlike mortgage originators and real estate agents.

As the mortgage industry heads into the New Year, National Mortgage News is taking a look at the biggest trends and topics that will shape 2015.

The government-sponsored enterprises' changes to their representations and warranties regulations could increase lending, or cause taxpayer losses related to GSE purchases of bad loans. Here's why advocates like the move.

Mortgage companies must properly vet their third-party vendors to ensure that there is no litigation, fraud allegations, or other risky behavior that might create risk for them.