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Embrace Home Loans, a direct mortgage lender in Newport, R.I., has partnered with Rockland Trust, to process, underwrite and close loans for the Rockland, Mass.-based bank.

While many of the lenders and investment firms seeking to profit from higher-risk mortgages are working to revive the business of bundling such loans into bonds, Citadel, one of the biggest players, is in no rush to see that happen.

The level of success we achieve in life has much more to do with our tenacity than our talent.

Home prices were up 5% in December from a year earlier, according to CoreLogic.

When Seattle Mayor Ed Murray created a blue-ribbon panel on housing affordability in September, he used the word "urgency."

The Super Bowl is history, marking the start of a new high-stakes season: the spring real estate market. After what many industry insiders considered a disappointing 2014, hopes are high for 2015.

Home sales in Southern California's San Fernando Valley tanked in 2014, falling 7 percent from a year earlier to a record low in response to rising prices and scant inventory.

The Greenwich, Conn., Town Assessor's office booked paperwork for 40 residential real estate closings last month, with a median sale price of $1.3 million, down significantly from last January's median closing price of $2 million.

President Obama's 2016 budget plan tackled a host of big picture items for mortgages, including Dodd-Frank reform, FHA lending and GSE reform.

Intense scrutiny is rarely focused on condemnation clauses in security instruments, but they will set the tone for potentially drawn out litigation as the parties work through the complexities specific to condemnation.