Origination

Prices for single-family homes rose in 73% of cities in the fourth quarter, fewer than in the previous three months, as surging values in the past two years started to reduce affordability.

This has cost real estate agents in Tuscaloosa, Ala. nearly $10 million in commissions, the author says.

There were 385 more new notices over December but a higher number of loans cured and more claims were paid.

Serling will be charged with providing Situs with business development opportunities relating to commercial mortgage-backed securities bond investors.

The real estate industry should distance itself from presenting the purchase of a primary residence as “the biggest investment of one’s life.” Rather, homeownership provides an incentive to save.

Horizon Bancorp in Michigan City, Ind., completed an all-cash transaction to acquire the entire portfolio of 1st Mortgage of Indiana's assets.

Lenders should consider carefully the potential for originators to steer borrowers from closed-end products into open-ended loans.

Banks are looking at a regulatory plan to dramatically expand the data collected on mortgages as a potential ally in their battle to ease separate rules that they say will curb access to credit.

The success of your mortgage origination business may very well depend on making changes to certain components of your operation.

There are plenty of companies waiting for a secondary mortgage market to develop for these high-margin loans.