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With the myriad home price indices available to the mortgage industry, it's difficult to determine which offers the most cost-effective insights about a particular market. Granularity is a key selling point, but not a one-size-fits-all solution.

The bank's fake account scandal is further reason to make the results of Wells' 2012 Community Reinvestment Act exam public.

Conforming mortgage rates were unchanged this week even as the 10-year Treasury's yield rose in response to the European Central Bank's decision to slow its bond purchase program, according to Freddie Mac.

Bank of America has ended its agreement with PHH Corp. that saw the Mount Laurel, N.J.-based company perform private-label originations for Merrill Lynch.

M&T Bank is offering mortgage subsidies through a new program to qualified consumers in New Jersey and nearby states.

San Francisco has the highest level of "mortgage stress" of the top 100 largest cities in the United States by population, according to Finder.com.

Homeowners in congressional districts controlled by Democrats nationwide have gained two times' more housing wealth than those in districts led by Republicans, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Mortgage applications increased 2.9% from one week earlier, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, as the conforming interest rate fell to its lowest level since July.

Converting millennials from renters to homeowners is proving difficult, but here are steps lenders can take to get this generation on board with buying.

More than $200 billion of the most poorly underwritten commercial mortgages originated before the financial crisis come due this year and next, many of them still underwater.