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Dramatic shifts in borrower expectations and a growing purchase market have elevated consumer-direct mortgages from a refi-driven channel to an alternative for staff-heavy lending to homebuyers.

Continuing a strong start to 2017, February mortgage applications for new home purchases grew 2.2% from a year ago.

New-home construction in Metro Orlando spiked 25% from a year earlier with the biggest boost in The Villages and communities near theme parks.

Home sales and prices in the San Antonio area continued to rise in February, but not at the quick pace that's marked the industry over the past year.

Social Finance's online borrowers are defaulting at higher rates than underwriters for one of its bond deals had expected, the latest sign that an industry that hoped to upend banking is now getting tripped up by bad loans.

At a time when mortgage companies are adding both staff and automation to cater to borrowers' changing needs, one lender has developed a distinctive compensation plan that leverages servicing revenue to encourage retention and recruitment of top producing loan officers.

The 2017 countdown of the National Mortgage News Top Producers list continues by featuring the loan officers ranked 151-200.

Although the Charlotte region's inventory of homes remains tight, February sales rose slightly over the same time last year as more sellers gained the confidence to put their properties on the market.

Hawaii tourism had another record year of arrivals in 2016, but statewide sales of homes typically bought by visitors barely budged.

Wall Street speculators are zeroing in on the next U.S. credit crisis: the mall.