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We are now in what apparently appears to be our first sustained significant increase in rates in quite a while.

Of the 17 Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks, nine were down for the day and eight were up.

In the first-ever Homes.com Rebound Report, the top 100 real estate market which has made the greatest recovery from the bust as of March is San Antonio.

Fairholme Capital Management owns $2.4 billion in preferred stock of the two government-sponsored enterprises.

Wells Fargo chief financial officer Tim Sloan said he doesn’t foresee a new housing bubble even as home prices rise at more than 10% annually.

A Connecticut real estate attorney and licensed mortgage broker was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a Fairfield County mortgage fraud scheme.

Resolutions that had been contributing to lower late-pays previously dropped sharply during the month.

Mortgage Grapevine poster Dambra1 apparently has not read the compliance blog posted each week on OriginationNews.com from attorney Herman Thordsen.

Mortgage modifications led to more than $1 billion of unexpected retroactive losses across 170 U.S. residential mortgage-backed securities, which are credit negative for these deals.

We're hearing lenders are under increasing pressure to make sure nonpublic, personal information about their customers does not find its way into the public realm.