Servicing

President Obama's 2016 budget plan tackled a host of big picture items for mortgages, including Dodd-Frank reform, FHA lending and GSE reform.

Intense scrutiny is rarely focused on condemnation clauses in security instruments, but they will set the tone for potentially drawn out litigation as the parties work through the complexities specific to condemnation.

While Rhode Island's real estate market made gains in 2014, the aftereffects of the foreclosure crisis continue to hold the housing market back from a more robust recovery.

The number of foreclosure cases initiated against Hawaii property owners fell last year for the first time in four years.

The pain and necessary changes in the mortgage industry that stemmed from the housing crisis have forced many lenders and servicers to utilize operating strategies that are reactive in nature and fail to capture the longer-term intrinsic value of today's troubled borrowers.

ReverseVision, which operates the largest technology platform in the reverse mortgage industry, suffered an outage with its RV Express system because of a hardware failure. It's the second technology disruption for the San Diego-based vendor.

The California Department of Business Oversight is accepting applications until Feb. 20 from firms or individuals with experience with the California Residential Mortgage Lending Act and California Homeowner Bill of Rights.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Jan. 30.

Residential real estate in the Philadelphia region saw falling prices and modestly rising sales in 2014's fourth quarter.

Four years into a $1 billion foreclosure prevention plan, Florida is not getting enough money into the hands of struggling homeowners and has enrolled fewer than 100 people into one of its five programs.