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Mortgage loan application volume decreased last week as both refinance and purchase volume slowed down.

Washington Trust Bancorp is eager to dip its toe in the water when it comes to Fairfield County, Conn., but the company is reluctant to take a full plunge into that booming market.

EverBank Financial in Jacksonville, Fla., reported higher quarterly profit due to an uptick in residential lending.

You can build a new book of business by returning to tried and true ideas which have worked for you in the past.

The CoreLogic Mortgage Fraud Report estimates that in the second quarter approximately $3.3 billion in mortgage debt contained elements of fraud or serious misrepresentations.

Housing policy needs to be refocused on strengthening household balance sheets, especially by making borrowers more resilient to home price declines. A new 15-year fixed-rate mortgage that allows borrowers to use the down payment to buy down the interest rate on the loan is designed to do just that.

Robert Bram of Long Island's Luxury Mortgage Group got his start in the industry trading mortgage-backed securities, but his passion for people led him to a career as an originator.

Well Fargo has pledged to offer $5.2 million to homebuyers who will qualify for its Cincinnati NeighborhoodLIFT program.

Federal and state laws, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, require title companies to develop a written information security program that describes the procedures they employ to protect non-public personal information.

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose at a weaker pace in the year ended in August as borrowing standards remain tight and wage gains fail to accelerate.