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Accredited Mortgage Loan REIT Inc. is making a partial liquidating distribution to the holders of its 9.75% Series A Perpetual Cumulative Preferred Stock of $1.50 per share.

Conventional prepayment speeds are roughly 25% slower and Ginnie Mae speeds are down 17% to 19% from the previous month, but this trend could reverse in October.

A mortgage servicer's decision to use batch file or real time integration for their systems is not cut and dry with one method having definitive benefits over the other.

MC Companies completed a deal to add 200 bank-owned townhome units in San Antonio to its portfolio.

Fannie Mae is updating its automated underwriting system so that lenders can report when troubled borrowers completed a preforeclosure sale so they aren’t treated as if they went through foreclosure when they apply for a new mortgage.

Estimated in the hundreds of thousands the number of federal employees affected by the shutdown is large enough to cause significant mortgage and credit delinquency concerns unless the shutdown ends soon.

The bid date for the Federal Housing Administration’s next note sale of nonperforming loans has been moved back to Oct. 30.

Veros said its future home price index forecast indicates that home values in most of the country will appreciate during the next 12 months.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released its 2013 second-quarter risk analysis for community banks and federal savings associations in the Midwest.

The Community Mortgage Lenders of America is urging Senate Banking Committee leaders to beware of “too big to fail” banks in crafting a GSE reform bill.