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Mortech has introduced a platform that enables mortgage lenders to create a customized website for their personal brand and business.

The California Housing Finance Agency is offering an additional $6,500 in down payment assistance to first-time homebuyers who qualify for its CalPLUS Conventional program.

The institutionalization of peer lending is pulling banks into more competitive bidding for loans as originators expand into newer and untested asset classes, such as online real estate loans.

Mortgage insurer Radian Guaranty Inc. reported a nearly 5.6% month-over-month increase in the volume of new primary mortgage insurance written in September while claims on delinquent loans declined.

Consumer confidence in the housing market rebounded in Fannie Mae's latest national consumer attitudes survey.

Builders in Phoenix and areas from Sacramento, California, to Orlando, Florida, are sweetening offers as sales slow in some of the country's most volatile housing markets.

Interthinx has partnered with Collateral Analytics to launch an automated appraisal, collateral evaluation and mortgage origination compliance risk assessment tool.

B of A mortgage strategists are concerned these underserved borrowers will keep housing market activity at "anemic levels."

Home prices increased 6.4% in August compared to a year earlier, according to data from CoreLogic.

DocMagic, a document provider for the mortgage industry, said that it has launched a version of its service through Liquid Logics' cloud-based loan origination system.