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Housing bonds turned a hefty 80% gain for the first half even as the entire municipal bond market was showing a 12% decline.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has provided small banks and credit unions that operate in rural and underserved counties with certain exemptions from its mortgages rules.

Jones Lang LaSalle Property Income Trust has closed a $40 million revolving line of credit from Bank of America.

Is the mortgage market robust enough to say no thanks to the Fed’s easing, which has kept rates at record lows for years.

Employment in the mortgage banking and brokerage sector edged down to 292,200 in May on a nonadjusted basis from 293,000 in April.

Municipal Mortgage & Equity has sold its fixed-rate performing multifamily bond portfolio to Merrill Lynch Portfolio Management Inc.

Keep reading and rereading anything to do with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Mortgage Grapevine poster Power Pig shared with the rest of the community a new way he has found to supplement his income.

Redwood Trust has issued another jumbo residential mortgage-backed securitization through Sequoia Trust that brings its total of deals done so far this year to nine.

Americans are finding it pays to go big when borrowing to buy a home.