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Real estate finance advisory services and technology provider Situs has purchased The Collingwood Group, a Washington advisory group staffed largely by former government mortgage agency officials.

As Nationstar Mortgage Holdings finalizes plans to change its name to Mr. Cooper, the nonbank lender and servicer is exploring options to part ways with Xome, the settlement services and real estate business it rebranded less than two years ago.

Mortgage credit availability declined in April as lenders cut back on the number of conforming products they offered.

Mortgage rates held steady in anticipation of the Federal Open Market Committee not increasing short-term rates at its meeting Wednesday, according to Freddie Mac.

A multimillion-dollar incentive program announced by the state Wednesday will offer financial assistance to recent college graduates looking to buy homes in Oneonta and seven other upstate New York cities.

Despite the run-up in home prices in recent years, the values of most South Florida properties haven't returned to the heady days of the housing bubble, a new report shows.

Many loan officers don't have an online presence, and a lot of those who do have neglected to correct errors and inaccuracies in key information, technology vendor Yext finds.

From housing finance reform to the latest economic projections, here's a look at the biggest stories and best insights from this week's Mortgage Bankers Association National Secondary Market Conference in New York.

Late payments on loans securing commercial mortgage-backed securities rose in April as borrowers failed to make balloon payments on maturing loans.

Firms that offer loans to small-time landlords have been slow to tap the securitization market.