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For the first time in five years mortgage lending growth lags behind credit cards and the fastest growing consumer credit segments in today’s market: auto financing and student loans.

The members of the Mortgage Insurance Cos. of America did $13.0 billion of primary new insurance written in July.

El Paso changed underwriters to sell $61 million of bonds for a downtown baseball stadium after the first try failed.

Regional banks are expected to see a huge drop-off in mortgage originations over the second half of 2013 as interest rates continue to rise.

The new proposed definition of the “qualified residential mortgage” has been aligned to match the definition of a “qualified mortgage” which was released earlier this year.

Radian Group Inc.’s mortgage insurer reached an agreement with Freddie Mac that caps expenses at $840 million related to loans held by the U.S. government-controlled housing-finance company.

A surge in borrowing costs to a two-year high is starting to cool demand from homebuyers as higher rates combine with surging prices to reduce affordability.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is considering a reduction in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's loan limits that is slated to kick in the first day of January.

As summer ends and we prepare to kick off the fall conference season (and the new football season), it’s only fitting that we revisit the many ways in which the NFL is like the mortgage industry.

For the second quarter of 2013, total title insurance premiums written were $3.34 billion, compared with $2.77 billion in 2Q12.