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Defects and misrepresentations on mortgage applications rose for the fifth consecutive month in April, with increases for both purchase and refinance loans.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending June 2.

Prices fell and the number of single-family homes sold in Connecticut were essentially flat year-over-year, according to the latest report form The Warren Group.

Employment in the mortgage sector increased for the second consecutive month in April as the spring home purchase season began.

For the first time in a decade, new-owner households created in the first quarter were higher than the creation of renter households.

Credit unions continue to press the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for regulatory relief, arguing that existing exemptions have not gone far enough.

A new tariff on Canadian lumber threatens to further disrupt homebuilding at a time when lenders are increasingly concerned about a purchase mortgage resurgence that has failed to materialize.

The former treasurer of an Oklahoma City homeowners association has been charged with eight felony counts of embezzlement.

Guild Mortgage is reaching out to millennials who often have higher debt-to-income ratios and lack down payments with a grant that allows them to put just 1% down.

Home-price growth in the Portland area is slowing down, but rising prices here still outpace most of the nation's major cities.