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Wire and other payments fraud affected a record number of businesses last year, and the FBI is warning in particular about real estate scams.

An increase in millennials making home purchases is a call to the mortgage industry for a quicker, more efficient digital process.

Mortgage applications dropped for the third consecutive week around rising interest rates and languid housing starts.

Arch MI U.S. returned to having the No. 1 market share among private mortgage insurers as it increased its new insurance written 15% over the previous year.

Seattle-area home prices led the country again over the peak spring period and grew at their fastest rate since the 2006 bubble, spurred by a spike in home costs in the metro area's least-expensive homes.

Earlier this year the Legislature appropriated $200 million to help finance new affordable rental housing. Now a state-led panel advises that an additional $1 billion should follow over the next decade to further address Hawaii's shortage of affordable apartments.

Freddie Mac produced modest second-quarter results, reflecting a stabilizing business that CEO Donald Layton compared to a utility company.

Loan defect risk rose in only three states and a handful of metropolitan regions in June thanks to the continuing spread of digital mortgage initiatives that improve data quality.

Lawmakers authorized a four-month extension less than a day before the program was set to expire.

CoreLogic has updated its Risk Quantification and Engineering tool amid California wildfires to include U.S. Wildfire and U.S. Severe Convective Storm models to support the mortgage and insurance industries in better assessing natural disaster risk.