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The Department of Housing and Urban Development has sold $3.7 billion of soured loans since late 2012 to aid homeowners in communities hurt by foreclosures. So far, the government agency has mostly helped itself.

Radian Group Inc. and MGIC Investment Corp. surged in New York trading after a U.S. regulator softened mortgage insurers' standards on some loans.

Quicken Loans filed a lawsuit against the U.S. departments of Justice and Housing and Urban Development over a government inquiry into its FHA mortgage business.

Only about one in four former homeowners who lost property during the housing crash will soon become buyers again as tight credit keeps many out of the U.S. real estate market, according to a National Association of Realtors study.

The final rule outlining new criteria for private mortgage insurers of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans lacks a key feature that industry participants had sought: the ability to count future insurance premiums towards capital reserves.

The residential real estate market remained healthy in February as home prices climbed and completed foreclosures fell year-over-year, mortgage technology firm FNC reported.

Carrington Capital Management will challenge a court decision to award contractual damages to an investor it blocked from pulling money out of a mortgage securities fund it managed in 2007.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending April 17.

Bank of America had mortgage banking income of $694 million, up from $412 million one year prior, as it originated $14 million of first mortgages in the first quarter.

The inventory of homes at some stage of foreclosure fell 27% in February from the year before, according to CoreLogic.