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Today, more people are using real estate agents than they did 10 years ago.

Property analytics experts now offer neighbor valuations for 12,939 ZIP codes compared to the prior amount of 11,408.

According to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, “the Corker-Warner bill is a threat” to the American middle-class regardless of race.

Analysts find fewer short sales and more loan modifications have contributed to a steady decline in distressed inventory nationwide while the liquidation rate has slowed down even further.

The bid date for the Federal Housing Administration’s next note sale of nonperforming loans is tentatively scheduled for mid-October.

For lenders it is a new era in which rates have risen and purchase mortgages have made a bit of a comeback.

Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase said that they have fulfilled the requirements of the $25 billion national mortgage settlement.

The city of Richmond, Calif., and Mortgage Resolution Partners told a federal judge that a bondholders’ lawsuit seeking to block it from helping homeowners by seizing mortgages through eminent domain is premature.

Altisource Portfolio Solutions has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire real estate and mortgage software services provider Equator.

Moody's Investors Service has revised the outlook for CommonWealth REIT's Baa3 senior unsecured rating to negative from stable.