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Ginnie Mae MBS issuance totaled $41 billion in June, basically unchanged from the prior month.

The Senate has passed a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage reform bill by unanimous consent that will give the Federal Housing Administration the authority to quickly fix its troubled reverse mortgage program by issuing mortgagee letters.

With mortgage rates dipping to all-time lows over the past couple of years, homebuyers had no choice but to become spoiled. Unfortunately, nothing good lasts forever.

Some wild and crazy letters of explanation from consumers to originators about having bad credit.

The number of state-licensed mortgage companies totaled 15,842 at the end of the first quarter.

Most Mortgage Industry Equity Composite members saw lower volume in their stock traded on Tuesday as the market waits for news from the Fed.

Veros has updated its appraisal risk scoring tool, VeroSCORE, to focus on the complexity of appraisal assignment.

The Mortgage Bankers Association’s commercial and multifamily loan origination index for 2Q13 is 167.

Confidence among U.S. consumers declined more than forecast in July after reaching a five-year high a month earlier as Americans grew more pessimistic about the outlook for the economy and employment.

Barry Habib, chief market strategist for Residential Finance, provides statistics on the Case-Shiller Home Price Index as well as figures from CoreLogic's latest foreclosure report.