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The bank will also expedite new home equity loan applications for flood victims.

The rules build on settlements the state has entered into with three providers of this product.

American Homes 4 Rent has teamed up with Johnson Capital Residential Investments to form American Mortgage Investment Partners.

Tamara Tikal's husband was already being held in custody, yet she and a partner allegedly kept his scheme going.

Currently, only about a third of all lending is for new purchase money mortgages. The rest is from people refinancing their current mortgages.

In 2Q13, there was $478 billion in loan originations, of which 36% were purchase money mortgages.

Carrington Property Network has accelerated its expansion by adding 15 of the top producing residential real estate brokerage firms to its exclusive group over the last three months.

Wells Fargo is cutting about 1,800 jobs in its home-loan production business as an increase in mortgage rates curtails borrower refinancing demand.

Institutional investors who have been acquiring single-family properties and converting them into rental units have been flocking to many of the same cities, but there are still markets where the competition for these types of assets remains low.

On a year-to-year basis, monthly home sales and median home prices have now gained for 19th months in a row.