Origination

A new documentary that aired Tuesday on PBS raises questions about why prosecutors targeted a small bank after the financial crisis and left bigger institutions untouched.

With interest rates lower than expected and existing-home prices driving demand, applications for new-home purchases grew in August.

Lima One Capital is expanding its single-family investor financing business by acquiring the residential debt business of the marketplace lender RealtyShares.

The first day of the week offered Miami and all of Florida relief after facing what could have been a cataclysm.

Hurricane Irma spilled storm waters into some of South Florida’s most valuable coastal real estate Sunday, flooding portions of Old Town in Key West, Miami’s financial district in Brickell, Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale’s Las Olas Boulevard.

No matter which path Hurricane Irma takes when it strikes Florida, analysts say the damage could be monumental — and reach hundreds of billions of dollars.

The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act was created after 9/11 to serve as a crucial federal backstop for commercial real estate insurers, but an analysis of alternatives to fund the program reveals the continued challenges of measuring and predicting terror risk.

Lawmakers signaled Monday that Congress will likely have a swift and powerful response to revelations that the credit reporting company Equifax was hacked, exposing 143 million people to identity theft.

Millennials — many of whom joined credit unions in recent years as the movement's membership expanded — are relying more heavily on personal loans than their Gen X predecessors while paring back on credit cards and mortgages.

Overall mortgage lending increased by 20% in the second quarter but was still down from a year earlier, according to Black Knight Financial Services.