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Some loan officer compensation plans are legal on a standalone basis, but their less-than-complete explanations in solicitations could draw the attention of regulators like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The new manual underwriting guidelines could make it tougher for some borrowers to get federally insured low-downpayment loans.

The Census Bureau made sharp downward revisions to previous monthly sales reports.

Interactive Mortgage Advisors is exclusively brokering the mortgage servicing rights, which have a wide geographic dispersion outside of a less than 19% Texas concentration and less than 10% California concentration.

This will be the year of the reemergence of the mortgage broker.

The consumer must purchase the flood coverage in combination with homeowners insurance. The company lays claim to being the first admitted carrier in the state to offer such coverage post-Biggert-Waters.

Wells Fargo economists see builders catering more and more to move-up buyers.

Some products are being revised while others are seeing greater interest as lenders look to remain under the 3% fee cap.

Strategic partnership turns run-down, extremely poor neighborhood of Anchorage, Ala., into a mixed-use residential and commercial center.

The case involved a lender leasing space in a bank office with the rental fee allegedly based on loan production.