Origination

The diversity of the U.S. population is at a tipping point and originators need to prepare to serve the needs of this growing pool of customers.

The amount of commercial mortgage debt maturing is set to spike this year, when loans taken out during the height of the real estate bubble start coming due.

Mortgage applications dropped over the last two weeks of last year even as interest rates remain at or below the 4% mark.

Takeovers among real estate investment trusts are poised to accelerate as shareholder activism increases and executives become more receptive to deals, according to research firm Green Street Advisors.

The residential and mortgage-backed securities market has seen "substantial improvements," according to Fitch Ratings.

Manhattan apartment prices jumped to the highest point since their 2008 peak as buyers competed for a limited supply of homes and deals were completed in new luxury developments.

Tree.com has adopted its marquee LendingTree brand for its new corporate name.

Ranieri Partners and WL Ross & Co. are selling its commercial real estate advisory services company, Situs, to Stone Point Capital.

Home prices in November continued to be higher than a year earlier, according to data from CoreLogic.

Mortgage denials in 2013 were comparable to those recorded a decade ago, analyses of HMDA data show, challenging perceptions about how easy lending really was during the era of "pulse" loans and "fog-a-mirror finance."