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Bank of Glen Burnie, which is seeking to recover from a stretch when its assets declined, hopes that its deal for a residential lender can help boost loan production.

Home-purchase contracts in the US were canceled at a record rate for July as jittery buyers got cold feet. 

Zohran Mamdani's vision for New York ignores the hard math: apartments aren't the affordable answer for families, writes the Chairman of Whalen Global Advisors.

Lagging tech adoption, issues with credit, and originators' rush to close refinances earlier this year contributed to deterioration, a study found.

The 30-year fixed rate mortgage ended the week unchanged as the 10-year Treasury ended Wednesday about 5 basis points higher than seven days before.

Researchers at the Philadelphia Fed, in a 2023 report, examined the prevalence of "fraudulent investors" in the mortgage market. Their data set covered 584,499 loans issued between 2005 and 2017, of which 22,431 were deemed fraudulent.

The Federal Open Market Committee member is the third Democrat the Trump administration has accused of committing occupancy fraud.

The American Land Title Association has created two policy endorsements and updated its best practices to combat seller-impersonation fraud.

The department will seek to make its oft-criticized platform more user-friendly through a contract with Phoenixteam, aligning it to industry-peer standards.

US mortgage rates dropped last week by the most since February, enticing homeowners to step up refinancing.