Origination

We're hearing that consumers love the concept of homeownership but when it comes to finding a place to live they end up renting.

LendTrade is like a Match.com designed to help forge links between people looking to buy and/or sell loans combined with LinkedIn.

Major lenders are relaxing their policies with respect to buying loans from their correspondent lenders during the government shutdown.

Prudential Financial, TIAA-CREF and Northwestern Mutual Co. joined to provide $850 million in financing to Tysons Corner Center as life insurers add to bets on commercial real estate.

Investors had a more positive view of the markets on Friday, even though things like the jobs data were not available because of the shutdown.

International real estate deals made up 8% of Florida’s existing home sales between July 2012 and July 2013.

Fidelity National Financial fell for a fourth straight day as Fitch Ratings said that the partial U.S. government shutdown stands to hurt title insurers because it could harm housing.

A mortgage servicer's decision to use batch file or real time integration for their systems is not cut and dry with one method having definitive benefits over the other.

One former mortgage originator found a new career when refinancing a loan for “a pool guy” and discovering how much income doing that type of work could bring in.

Estimated in the hundreds of thousands the number of federal employees affected by the shutdown is large enough to cause significant mortgage and credit delinquency concerns unless the shutdown ends soon.