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Each state has a single source to go to where it can look to check the list of nonfilers and send out form letters that can cause your license to be suspended.

The Mortgage Industry Equity Composite had 13 gainers, three decliners and one stock unchanged on Thursday.

PacTrust Bank, which has been expanding its mortgage business in recent weeks to include warehouse lending and correspondent aggregation channels, has been approved to be a Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities issuer.

Bank of America Corp. must face a lawsuit filed by a mortgage-bond trustee that seeks the repurchase of home loans backing $1.75 billion of securities, a judge ruled.

Fitch Ratings believes the recent home price gains recorded in several residential markets are outpacing improvements in fundamentals and could stall or possibly reverse.

A $32 million U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grant will be invested in affordable housing for more than 1,300 extremely low-income persons and families living with HIV/AIDS.

Redwood Trust Wednesday filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its eighth jumbo mortgage securitization of the year.

California's Department of Insurance recently served a cease-and-desist order on a company that it alleged was engaged in the business of title insurance without a license.

The original poster comments that rates have risen 62.5 basis points in 30 days.