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Bankruptcy trustees are warning the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that the periodic statements servicers are required to send homeowners can conflict with the Bankruptcy Code.

There are signs of green shoots in Detroit on the housing front.

Over the next 12 months, Northview Hotel Group plans to execute an extensive renovation of the Queen & Crescent hotel in order to maximize the value of the property.

The volume of appraisals being completed within the last year has slowed down due to new regulation that has been imposed for the industry.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has updated its accounting guidelines to reflect the new regulatory-capital requirements outlined in Basel III set to take effect next year.

One way the government shutdown is affecting the mortgage market is by completely paralyzing the lending of rural home loans guaranteed by the Department of Agriculture.

Fitch Ratings’ commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquency rate declined 11 basis points in September due to the selling of larger real estate owned assets and their removal from loan pools.

Wells Fargo experienced a 28% drop in mortgage origination volume in the third quarter and it ended the quarter with a substantially reduced application pipeline due to the decline in refinancing activity.

SunTrust Banks will offer $500 million in consumer assistance and make a cash payment of $468 million as a result of an agreement with the Department of Justice and the Department of Housing and Urban Development over claims tied to faulty mortgages.

Debra Still will assume leadership of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Opens Doors Foundation.