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Auction.com is not expecting existing-home sales to massively increase in January compared to the previous month.

Purchases of new homes jumped in December to the highest level in more than six years, a sign the industry is poised to keep expanding in 2015.

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose at a slower pace in the year ended in November, a sign the industry struggled to find momentum even amid low mortgage rates.

United Wholesale Mortgage has released a new origination system for brokers and correspondents.

A California loan broker who defrauded investors of more than $17.4 million has been sentenced to five years in prison.

The Supreme Court gave borrowers the path to file a rescission notice without going to court, but experts expect more banks to initiate legal proceedings to stop rescissions they see as frivolous.

Over 50% of mortgage lenders said they plan to increase their marketing towards first-time homebuyers in 2015 to take advantage of changes in conforming and government lending programs.

Privlo, a non-qualified mortgage lender, has begun operations in its home state of California.

In less than a decade, Seattle-based Zillow has become the nation's leading brand for homebuyer real estate information. It's become synonymous with looking up your home's value — or someone else's.

Recently disclosed emails and documents give the clearest evidence yet that high-level banking officials pushed subprime mortgage loans knowing some Detroiters couldn't pay them — helping spark a foreclosure crisis that devastated the city during the Great Recession.