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Fitch Ratings has raised its ratings outlook for First American Financial and its subsidiaries to “positive” from “stable” because of the nation’s second largest title insurer’s capitalization, profitability and moderate financial leverage.

The weak economy throughout the state of Florida is affecting the bond financing of multifamily projects.

The public relations department of JPMorgan Chase has finally made up its mind: the megabank will only engage in FHA Streamline refinancings on loans that it presently services.

Suzanne Hutchinson will retire at the end of the year from her post as executive vice president of the Mortgage Insurance Cos. of America.

Research shows why bank-owned property inventories continue to grow costing lenders a greater amount of money to preserve these assets over time: overvaluing properties during the appraisal process.

The national delinquency rate continues to decline on a yearly basis with the latest figures from Lender Processing Services revealing a 9.6% drop in the amount of late mortgage payments from May 2011.

Both bills validate the work field services companies do to maintain properties on behalf of their clients to maintain properties in their portfolios and reduce blight in communities across the country.

Discover Financial Services is finally getting its feet wet in the mortgage origination business, but the credit card lender isn't jumping into the deep end anytime soon.

Traditionally, underwriting focused on applying a static set of guidelines to determine an approve/reject decision.

Moody’s noted that improvements in the apartment market have dissipated in recent months after the index soared to roughly 140.