Florida

Merchants has agreed to buy NattyMac, a company it has been in business with since 2014.

There was an 8% year-over-year increase in mortgage loan application defect risk in California during October and that should rise further because of the wildfires that devastated the state, First American said.

Orlando real estate broker Geo Geovanni, 49, was found guilty in federal court of one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and three counts of bank fraud, the U.S. Attorney's office announced.

Sorry, homebuyers, Tampa Bay's real estate market still looks strong for sellers.

There was a 1.3% uptick in mortgage application defects in September from the previous month, with states affected by Hurricane Florence showing preliminary spikes in activity following the storm, according to First American.

City National Bank said the foundation will buy houses and hold onto them until the buyer lines up financing.

Bucking a national trend, sales of single-family homes soared by double digits in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Hernando counties in September.

New-home construction fell in September on a decline in the South that may reflect disruptions from Hurricane Florence, government figures showed Wednesday.

September's surprising large year-over-year drop in home sales is a sign that the housing market continues moving toward balance between buyers and sellers, a Remax report said.

Natural disasters are now the leading driver of lenders' foreclosure risk, with last year's hurricanes causing a rise in third-quarter filings in affected markets, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Home prices increased nationally by 5.5% year over year from August 2017, while in the Bradenton-Sarasota-North Port, Fla., region they grew by 3.95%, CoreLogic said.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency lowered the $14 billion-asset thrift in Cleveland to “needs to improve” from "satisfactory."

During the foreclosure crisis, thousands of Floridians turned to Mark Stopa for help in saving their homes.

USAA will be eliminating 265 home sales and lending positions, but it already has offered nearly 100 of the affected workers different jobs within its mortgage unit.

Thirty states told the Council of Development Finance Agencies they issued mortgage revenue bonds in 2017 compared to only 18 that issued mortgage credit certificates.

A man from Hialeah, Fla., will face sentencing in November after pleading guilty to conspiracy in an $8 million mortgage and tax-refund scheme.

It would be impossible to pick out a single video or photograph that sums up Irma, which dropped from a hurricane to a tropical storm by the time it smacked Lake County, Fla., one year ago today.

How affordable is Tampa Bay? One test is whether someone earning the median income can afford the median priced home.

A decade after a collapse in the housing market triggered the 2008 Great Recession, South Florida still has many homeowners who owe far more money than their property is worth.

A 75-year-old Florida real estate developer was sentenced to six months in prison after admitting he lied to banks to keep money flowing so he wasn't forced to scuttle an oceanfront hotel and condominium in Vero Beach.