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Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending June 30.

From the largest banks to the smallest independents, policymakers want to hear the mortgage industry speak with one voice in the critical efforts to reform the government-sponsored enterprises.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency made just incremental changes to two of the seven affordable housing benchmarks.

Both parties appear interested in a deal on housing finance reform, but tough fights are ahead.

The shuttering of tech-savvy mortgage broker Sindeo reflects the challenges of operating during a period of weak volume in a difficult originations channel, not its embrace of digital mortgages.

A proposed ordinance in one California city would require developers planning residential projects costing $100,000 or more to pay an affordable housing impact fee.

As competition drives home prices ever higher in the Bay Area, there is a whiff of good news for first-time homebuyers.

The Pine Tree Plaza in Sterling, Ill., will be auctioned online after a string of tenant departures put the property in foreclosure.

The proposed site in Danvers, Mass., of a Registry of Motor Vehicles office is scheduled to be sold in a foreclosure auction, casting doubt on when, or if, the registry will actually end up there.

Mortgage rates this week reached their lowest level so far in 2017, but are highly likely to increase over the next few days, according to Freddie Mac.