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The rules build on settlements the state has entered into with three providers of this product.

PennyMac is putting its first jumbo mortgage-backed securities deal in the pipeline, a deal roughly $550 million in size.

We're hearing from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, where not one but two cases involving the same Wisconsin mortgage broker were decided.

Tamara Tikal's husband was already being held in custody, yet she and a partner allegedly kept his scheme going.

The Federal Reserve decision not to taper its bond purchases at this time will be good for mortgage volume in the short term.

Currently, only about a third of all lending is for new purchase money mortgages. The rest is from people refinancing their current mortgages.

Members of the management team and key employees of IFG Mortgage Corp. have joined Equity Loans.

In 2Q13, there was $478 billion in loan originations, of which 36% were purchase money mortgages.

Average weekly rates for fixed-rate mortgages in Freddie Mac’s survey fell from where they were the previous week, ending a period of stability.

Wells Fargo is cutting about 1,800 jobs in its home-loan production business as an increase in mortgage rates curtails borrower refinancing demand.