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KB Home fell the most in almost three years after saying its fiscal first-quarter gross margin will narrow significantly and that it's unlikely to meet its goal of a 20% margin for 2015.

Fears that lower Federal Housing Administration premiums will negatively affect private mortgage insurance firms are overblown. If anything, the plan should be a modest positive for the overall housing market.

Paying attention to detail is important in the mortgage industry but being a control freak could damage your productivity.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is launching a toolkit on Tuesday that will help consumers shop for a mortgage by finding the best rates in their area based on data the agency gathers from lenders.

Freddie Mac in the next month plans to approve three more lenders, including one bank, to make multifamily loans between $1 million and $5 million for GSE purchase and securitization, according to an official. Banks were not initially courted.

Senior citizens have more equity in their homes than at any period since the financial crisis, according to the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association.

Industrywide standards of best practices are a topic that deserves consideration by everyone involved. We should prove that common sense still can prevail.

Lenders should ensure they are not paying for referrals prohibited by the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act when they purchase these from another company. Here's one way they can.

Lenders need to use nontraditional means of measuring a borrower's likelihood of default.

The Multifamily Lenders Council, a trade group representing companies that originate and service Federal Housing Administration-insured multifamily mortgages, states President Obama isn't doing enough to assist affordable rental housing.