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For the second consecutive month, lenders reduced their staff as spring home sales get off to a good start.

Genworth Financial Chief Executive Officer Tom McInerney said he's moving with a "sense of urgency" to turn around the insurer after record losses and a stock plunge.

Realogy's NRT subsidiary completed the most residential real estate transactions in 2015, among all brokerage firms.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending April 1.

Although many believe home prices to be impervious to inflation, they are still susceptible to speculation surrounding the Federal Reserve's rumors and decisions on monetary policy.

The housing market is poised to post its best year in a decade, although employers' resistance to giving workers a raise is a major concern, Freddie Mac said.

Interest rates on fixed-rate mortgages were unchanged from last week, Freddie Mac said.

American International Group Inc.'s mortgage insurer, United Guaranty Corp., filed for an initial public offering as the parent company faces sustained pressure from activists to split up.

The scammers pocketed $3.8 million from troubled homeowners nationwide and did nothing to modify their loans.

More of the nation's housing markets are back to or near their normal level, but pockets of weakness remain, according to Freddie Mac.