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An estimated 81,351 homeowners received a permanent loan modification in February.

The market is heating up, but some people are overpromising and underdelivering.

Members of the Mortgage Industry Equity Composite had a banner day on Wednesday, with 15 of the 17 stocks closing higher than they did on Tuesday.

REIT Exchange Fund has made an offer to shareholders of 33 nonpublicly traded real estate investment trusts to exchange shares in those stocks for shares in its fund.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could return billions of dollars in profits to taxpayers who bailed them out in 2008.

The Benedict Group has added Web access to its loan servicing software to help clients manage their financial transactions.

Continued significant improvement can be expected in both the commercial real estate and housing sectors.

A Mortgage Grapevine poster who uses the handle The Mortgage Psychic is claiming that interest rates are going way down.

Insiders are expressing renewed optimism for growth in real estate capital markets and commercial real estate fundamentals, even compared to expectations of just six months ago.

Regulation has created a window of investment opportunity in the current booming mortgage servicing rights market.