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Nationwide, new home construction isn't keeping up with rising prices and demand. But in certain areas of the Southwest and Southeast, builders are bucking this trend, creating housing supply that is more flexible to market fluctuations.

Prepayment activity declined during July in spite of the low rates that added to the number of borrowers who could refinance, Black Knight Financial Services said in its "First Look" data release.

Donald Trump had heard all the chatter, the idle talk about how the U.S. housing market was overheating and trouble was looming. He was unfazed. It was the spring of 2006 and he was pushing a new mortgage business, Trump Mortgage LLC.

The Federal Housing Administration should look to private mortgage insurance companies as a model for how to standardize the claim review process.

Clara, a new online mortgage lender, has launched with $27 million in equity financing.

The president and founder of a now-defunct Massachusetts-based mortgage company was charged with defrauding Ginnie Mae to the tune of $3 million.

The first commercial mortgage-backed security to comply with "skin in the game" requirements was extremely well received. Market participants credit the way the large banks sponsoring the deal retained the risk – a strategy unavailable to nonbank lenders.

It's time to move past the fear that digital mortgages will make loan officers obsolete.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Aug. 19.

The share of homeowners who owe more than their house is worth remains above 10% nationwide, according to data from Zillow's second quarter Negative Equity Report.