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Major servicers still find it difficult to provide troubled borrowers with timely notice that more documents are needed to process a loan modification application.

ServiceLink has made available a multipurpose tool designed to ensure the mortgage loan data lenders and servicers report and record electronically is accurately transferred and in compliance with regulators.

Move-up buyers are responsible for a growing share of total home sales while first-time homebuyers continue to be hampered by tight credit, according to Wells Fargo Securities economists.

A LendingTree survey reveals that now is an ideal time for prospective homebuyers to purchase a property before interest rates and prices go up.

Mortgage stocks go along for the ride as 13 of 17 Mortgage Industry Equity Composite listings close higher.

This is our master list of items to do on each new loan.

For the first time in six weeks the Zillow Mortgage Rate Ticker finds the average rate for the 30-year fixed rate mortgage to be lower than the week before, a drop of five basis points to 3.88%.

The Mortgage Grapevine is discussing a scenario where the borrower is reluctant to have an appraiser come in because there are two rooms which were added to the property but are not on the tax rolls.

Values in the $900 billion non-agency market are slumping after soaring through early May as the Federal Reserve’s stimulus efforts drove investors to seek potentially higher returns and housing rebounded with the fastest gains in prices since 2006.

Stonegage Mortgage's new office will be located in Oak Brook, Ill., and will focus on loan servicing and originations.