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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.

At least one insider finds the anticipated extension of the Home Affordable Refinance Program “may not be as bad” as expected for the residential mortgage market.

There are now less than $70 billion of commercial mortgage-backed securities loans in special servicing, the lowest number since 2009 and less than 10% of the entire CMBS universe, Fitch Ratings said.

Since Wells Fargo Home Mortgage introduced the Home Rebate CardSM program in 2007 homeowners have used their rewards to automatically pay down $50 million in mortgage principal balances.

The proceeds from Inland Real Estate Corp.’s public offering of 9 million shares of common stock will be used to pay down the draw on a line of credit tapped to fund the buyout of its partner in the IN Retail Fund LLC joint venture.

The National Association of Realtors leading indicator of future home sales edged up 0.3% in April after rising 1.5% in March.