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Retail mortgage lender Guaranteed Rate will purchase the assets of FirsTrust Mortgage in Overland Park, Kan.

Now that buyers and sellers have a sense of what it's like to operate in the new interest rate environment, the two sides are more likely to agree on price.

National mortgage banker GMH Mortgage Services is opening a wholesale lending division.

Redwood Trust is coming back to the market with its second residential mortgage-backed security of 2014, according to a presale report from Kroll Bond Ratings Agency.

A nonprofit housing group has found an ambitious middle ground between those who oppose any change to the mortgage interest deduction untouched and those who say it must go.

When reporting defaults on government-insured single-family mortgages, the FHA identifies the primary borrower to a government database, but rarely provides the names of the co-borrowers, HUD's inspector general found.

A Supreme Court ruling overturning circuit court rulings in D.R. Horton Inc. v. the National Labor Relations Board is in question. This affects the enforceability of class waiver arbitration agreements.

Cerberus is is financing low-volume deals for small investors through its FirstKey Lending; Blackstone's B2R Finance LP. is making a similar push to mom-and-pop landlords.

Consumer confidence about homeownership and the general economy have improved over the last four years, but a return to "normal" housing levels will still take a long time, according to a Fannie Mae survey.

Analysts are projecting Ginnie Mae could surpass Freddie Mac in outstanding MBS by next July.