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Total commercial and multifamily mortgage debt outstanding increased in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

JPMorgan Chase is preparing one of the largest private-label mortgage securitizations since the financial crisis.

We're counting down the list of this year's 300 Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the penultimate segment of the list!

Compliance experts have long disagreed about how much, if any, discretion loan officers have in pricing loans to consumers. But a recent auto lending case should bring that debate to a close.

Prosper Marketplace on Monday announced a three-year agreement to offer financing to consumers making improvements to their homes through the website HomeAdvisor.com.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac gave $186 million to the National Housing Trust Fund, their first such contributions to a fund designed to provide construction and rehabilitation of rental housing for low-income families.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco is exploring ways to use $40 million it received as part of a private-label securities settlement to support small business development and job creation to help future homebuyers.

Home equity lenders are putting more loans on the books, thanks to increasing property values. But utilization rates are falling, not increasing, and older loans are paying off at a faster clip than lenders can replace them.

We're counting down the list of this year's 300 Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the ninth segment of the list!

The American Bankers Association's mortgage subsidiary, ABA Community Bank Mortgage, has chosen BOK Financial Correspondent Lending to be its newest secondary market investor.