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The new technology expands the capabilities of automation used to obtain digital transcript information from self-employed borrowers.

Companies that don't use the technology on average pay $1.76 million more and take 108 days longer to respond to incidents than firms that utilize it.

The alleged scam targeted elderly Vietnamese-American homeowners in California and fooled banks into distributing illicit funds to the perpetrators.

Nonbank brokers and lenders typically scale back after the spring homebuying season and the housing market could be particularly slow for the rest of this year.

The turnaround was due to a $42 million positive servicing mark. Even with the operating loss, it beat estimates.

The mortgage shop's net income was $36.9 million in the second quarter, up from a net loss of $37.2 million in the first three months of the year.

Government lender Plaza Home Mortgage, non-owner occupied originator Constructive Capital are seeing success in the changing environment, helped by their respective business models.

A second quarter profit followed two fiscal periods in the red, but the firm had to overcome a $33 million negative mortgage-servicing rights valuation.

Active listings fell in July on an annual basis, while median home prices also showed signs of a downward trend, according to new data from Realtor.com.

But a Zillow economist argues that there's plenty of evidence suggesting strong GDP and job growth had more to do with the increase than what Fitch did.