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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.

Effective September 3, mortgage industry veteran Vickie Tillman is the new president of Morningstar Credit Ratings, LLC.

The preliminary title report does not bind the title company.

An industry trade group is pressing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to provide more clarity on its servicing rules to ensure an array of loan modification options will be available to troubled borrowers.

There were 15 of the 17 Mortgage Industry Equity Composite members that closed higher on Thursday as the market gets ready for Labor Day.

Implementing eminent domain may present inconsistencies in solving the root cause of the housing problem in the U.S., create unintended consequences for both borrowers and investors, and inadvertently limit mortgage lending activity, Standard & Poors said in a report.

U.S. residential properties sold at an estimated annualized pace of 5.5 million in July, which is up 11% from last year.