Origination

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.

JPMorgan Chase. is offering $390 million of nonperforming loans as banks including HSBC Holdings and Regions Financial increasingly look to sell troubled mortgage debt.

Sensing an opportunity created by tight credit conditions, the giant servicer will buy "nonagency, nonprime" loans from the mortgage cooperative Lenders One, a mortgage cooperative with close ties to the servicer.