Servicing

The dollar number of U.S. fixed-rate commercial mortgages that were liquidated in March rose by 49% from February, according to Trepp. However, the majority of loans with losses have losses of less than 2%.

Montgomery County Employees FCU announced it is now offering members a HarmonyLoan mortgage, which adjusts its interest rate at the member’s call.

The Obama Administration’s white paper on the future of the government-sponsored enterprises may have muddied the issue as much as it clarified it.

Banks' old problems kept easing in the first quarter. Their new problems didn't.That's what analysts expect to hear from JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp. this week as they kick off quarterly results.

The only bank that has been penalized for mortgage servicing lapses got slapped for doing the opposite of what state attorneys general have been demanding.

Home values are still falling, but at a less dramatic pace, according to the new CoreLogic house price index.

The Mortgage Bankers Association is asking the Federal Housing Finance Agency for more information on what servicers might be paid if a loan moves from being current into the ‘default’ category.

The private mortgage insurance companies will not report profits in the first quarter but there should be continued improvement in credit trends and operating performance, said a report from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.

After being rejected for a loan modification, Carla Ghosn decided to build a website that would tell borrowers if they qualified for the government's Home Affordable Modification Program.

If loan volumes are slowing, don’t tell that to TMS Funding of Milford, Conn. The nonbank residential lender recently hired six wholesale account executives and plans to hire more.