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ClosingCorp's board parted ways with Brian Benson and is looking for someone with experience in a high-growth technology environment.

EverBank Financial’s first-quarter profits more than doubled from the same period last year as strong loan growth more than offset a sharp drop in income from servicing mortgages.

Indianapolis is the best market for first-time homebuyers right now, according to research released Tuesday by Zillow.

Though parts of the country are still struggling to return to benchmark levels, many of the housing markets across the U.S. showed signs of improvement in February, according to Freddie Mac.

NMI Holdings lost $2.5 million in the first quarter, an improvement over a first-quarter 2015 loss of $7.8 million, which is a sign the private mortgage insurer remains on track to become profitable later this year.

Clayton Holdings reported a $3.7 million pretax first-quarter loss, but Radian's mortgage insurance business had pretax income of $140 million, a 10% increase over the prior year.

An across-the-board increase in mortgage interest rates accompanied a decline in loan applications, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

More Americans than forecast signed contracts to purchase previously owned homes in March, an encouraging sign as the housing market was entering its busiest selling season of the year.

Large lenders are pushing the Federal Housing Administration to revamp its loan defect taxonomy to provide more certainty about potential errors and mistakes that could lead to enforcement actions.

Federal Savings Bank in Chicago has acquired the assets of ICC Mortgage Services in Westbury, N.Y.