Origination

Finding a place to live in Brooklyn is easy if you want to rent a home — not so much if you want to buy one.

Walter Investment Management Corp. will close its Ditech subsidiary's Irving, Texas, office by the end of 2017, according to an internal memo. It's the first step in an effort to ultimately reduce Walter's physical footprint from 13 offices to as few as four.

On the first big day of 2Q results, bankers said their investments in middle-market lending have started paying off. JPMorgan Chase and PNC have added commercial loan officers in new markets across the country.

Genworth Financial for the second time has withdrawn and refiled its application with the federal government to approve its acquisition by China Oceanwide Holdings Group.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending July 14.

Two West Virginia law firms have won a federal case against Quicken Loans that stemmed from allegations the lender suggested home values to appraisers who are supposed to be objective.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has added three categories to the list of protected classes under equal opportunity employment and inclusion rules for regulated entities.

A new PACE financing program is launching in Florida on July 24 with protections to address concerns that some consumers aren't informed about the program's liens, service fees and property tax assessments

From Indianapolis to Nashville, here's a look at the 15 hottest residential real estate markets of summer 2017.

New compliance challenges and competition make real estate alliances harder to secure. But they're essential for lenders to maximize market share. (Part three in a four-part series on the mortgage industry's response to the housing inventory shortage.)