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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.

Zais Financial Corp. has closed on a $150 million committed financing facility which it will use to purchase whole residential loans.

Fitch Ratings said the nation’s title insurance underwriters strongly capitalized as of the end of 2012.

Industry-driven solutions based on some of the most pressing issues facing real estate valuation today are crucial to the mortgage marketplace today as it adopts to the post-crisis reality.

One loan driver is anecdotal evidence shared by a number of credit unions that are booking mortgages with low loan-to-value and short duration.

The next few months will see significant changes in the mortgage loan market and those changes will impact the credit unions that write those loans.