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The mortgage insurer loses only a penny on Friday.

The housing market is gaining momentum and house prices will be up 8% by the end of this year.

A Credit Suisse prepayment forecast suggests the slowdown in lower coupons last month will continue in March based on rate activity to date.

Sen. Ron Wyden is raising concerns about the business arrangements Lender Processing Services has with mortgage servicers and the billing practices of the default management vendor.

2013 is the year the housing market will see even stronger recovery.

A poster on the Mortgage Grapevine is looking to help a friend who has an old Wachovia Pick-a-Pay loan get a modification.

It took two loan modifications to drive down the delinquency rate of securitized commercial mortgage loans in February and keep rolling a nine month trend of steady improvement.

Citing fairness issues, three civil rights groups are calling for revisions of how the Federal Emergency Management Agency delivers housing assistance.

Consumers who were deceived by an operation where scammers posed as a government mortgage assistance program and charged an upfront fee for fraudulent mortgage relief services will soon be receiving reimbursement from this scheme.

Members of the Mortgage Insurance Cos. of America assisted in $8.8 billion of Home Affordable Refinance Program and other refinance workouts in the fourth quarter.