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New-home construction was sluggish in Palm Beach County last year with builders breaking ground on 2,132 new homes, a meager 3% gain from 2013.

Orange County home prices ended 2014 up 3.8%, the smallest annual appreciation rate in three years due in part to a decline in investor speculation.

Mortgage applications were higher during the last week of January as interest rates fell to lows last seen in May 2013.

JPMorgan plans to add $940 million to the growing pipeline of residential mortgage-backed securities.

Retirement Funding Solutions will begin issuing reverse mortgages, the division of Synergy One Lending said this week.

Studying borrowers' credit characteristics and tightening quality control are more important to how mortgages perform than the size of down payments.

Accurate data is critical in the mortgage business. Yet, we often forget exactly how much data goes into every loan file, and that the amount of data continues to grow every year.

The Federal Housing Administration's new foreclosure relief options for nonborrowing spouses of reverse mortgage customers will increase loan servicers' costs, and some question how many consumers they will actually help.

WinWater Home Mortgage is preparing another plain-vanilla private-label residential mortgage securitization.

During last year's fourth quarter, commercial and multifamily loan originations increased by 11% from the same time a year before, a new report by the Mortgage Bankers Association says.