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Ellie Mae has commenced a follow-on offering of 2.75 million shares of its common stock. In addition, Ellie Mae plans to grant the underwriters of the transaction a 30-day option to buy 412,500 shares at the public offering price.

Home prices continued their upward climb in June as properties at the lower end experienced higher levels of appreciation, according to CoreLogic.

Greenlight Capital Re Ltd., the reinsurer seeking to reverse underwriting losses, is pushing into the mortgage guaranty market after being burned by fraudulent claims on property policies in Florida.

Regulators' recent warnings on emerging risks with commercial real estate indicate banks have reverted to CRE practices that got them in hot water once before.

Mid America Mortgage in Addison, Texas, has executed its first electronic closing and e-note through its retail origination channel. The closing builds on the company's plan to expand e-closings and e-notes across all of its origination channels.

Lending standards for most business and residential real estate loans as well as subprime consumer loans are tighter than the 10-year average, according to a survey of senior bank loan officers released by the Federal Reserve Board.

The average single-family guarantee fee paid to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac only increased by two basis points in 2015 to 59 bps, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Home sales rose to their highest level since the financial crisis last week. While that's a good sign, full recovery is going to take a long time. Here's why.

MGIC Investment Corp. has begun a public offering of $350 million in senior notes.

Guild Mortgage and FirstREX are lifting the curtain on a down payment investment program.