Origination

Profits from originating mortgages dipped during the third quarter, with independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of banks reporting an average gain of $897, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Mortgage rates for 30-year loans fell for a fourth week, reducing borrowing costs to the lowest level in a year and a half.

After 20 years in the business, Bliss Sawyer shares some observations about originating mortgages that she learned over time.

One in five U.S. housing markets are now less affordable than their historic average as price gains outpace income growth from New York to San Francisco.

The Federal Housing Finance Administration has advised private mortgage insurers that it will delay the release of revised capital standards.

Here is a checklist of important items in order to get a report approved in record time.

If banks finally start loosening up mortgage lending standards, will credit unions' hard-won market share take a hit?

Interest rates for conforming mortgages have fallen to their lowest level in over a year and a half, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Meeting people and getting to know them remains the most successful way of getting new clients.

Word-of-mouth marketing led to a total of seven large mortgage deals for the author.