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Ben Bernanke said the mortgage market is still so tight that he's having a hard time refinancing his own home loan.

FHA commissioner Galante initiated the handbook rewrite to provide more detail and certainty for lenders.

The Supreme Court said Thursday it would hear a case related to the use of "disparate impact" theory to pursue entities for unintentional discrimination, a move that could have significant ramifications for banks.

Mortgage Contracting Services has bought CoreLogic's real estate owned and property businesses.

Mortgage credit availability remained unchanged in September, according to data released Thursday by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

It might be time for the industry to consider a "less is more" view when it comes to offering consumers mortgage product options.

Mortgage rates dipped slightly for the week ending Oct. 2 despite strong GDP data, according to a weekly report from Freddie Mac.

Too many lenders simply gather their mortgage application data for their annual HMDA report and send it to their regulators without realizing its value, according to David Moffat, president and chief executive of Mortgage TrueView.

Arthur Chu became the third largest money winner on Jeopardy! by bucking the usual strategy for the game, and it is a lesson for originators and their referral partners.

Lenders desperately want to make potentially lucrative home loans to those with less-than-stellar credit, but only a few are willing to try given legal uncertainties. Here's how a few are designing their products to get a jump on the competition.