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The housing industry appears to be returning to a healthy market again as foreclosures nationwide continue to fall in September.

The average rates for 30- and 15-year fixed-rate mortgages inched up a bit during the week ending Oct. 10 in Freddie Mac’s latest survey.

Mortgage applications increased 1.3% on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier in the Mortgage Bankers Association’s weekly survey for the week ending Oct. 4.

Both companies will offer their respective solutions via the software-as-a-service model.

If a storm similar to Hurricane Sandy makes landfall, how many homeowners would default on their mortgage?

The mortgage industry always seems to have an onslaught of new regulatory issues that mortgage lenders and servicers have to follow.

Foreclosures recently have been falling throughout the country for an extended period of time, and the government-sponsored enterprises continue to do their part in assisting at-risk homeowners from losing their properties.

Mortgage firm PHH Corp. is considering a plan to split and sell its mortgage and auto fleet leasing businesses.

The Federal Housing Administration will be selling 29,000 nonperforming loans totaling $5 billion before Thanksgiving in three separate sales.

Radian Guaranty’s inventory of delinquent mortgage loans declined by less than 1% in September, after seeing approximately 15% of the loans being removed in August.