Mortgage Bankers Association

Loan defects are inching upward in a market where higher rates could lead to more fraud risk.

Refinance applications reached their lowest share in more than seven years even as mortgage rates fell last week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The industry expects to lean on technological efficiencies this year as higher rates and dwindling refinances test their businesses.

In a bitterly partisan Congress, two senators are making a rare push across party lines to solve a persistent riddle with huge implications for the U.S. housing market: What to do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?

Most tax lien and civil judgment data will be taken out of credit bureau files on July 1, possibly inflating scores and raising concerns about liability for mortgages that sour.

Despite the additional risks, originating mortgages for landlords of single-family rentals could help lenders fill the gap of waning refinance volume.

Here's an early look at what technology developers will be doing to dazzle and impress lenders and servicers during the Mortgage Bankers Association's technology conference in Chicago.

Mortgage lenders have already begun to feel the burn of higher interest rates.