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The number of Redfin customers making tours of homes for sale increased 9% in March over February, versus a 4% increase for the same period in 2012.

Stewart Title Guaranty Co. has created a Trusted Provided Program, where those agencies and attorney agents who pass the screening can show consumers a seal proving they have been vetted and verified.

Hiring by residential builders started to pick up last fall and in November exceeded 10,000 for the first time in years.

Hundreds of servicemembers who lost their homes due to foreclosure between 2006 and 2010 are set to recover over $39 million in monetary relief.

Mortgage bankers we spoke to recently felt there is no new bubble forming, and that what is happening is a normal correction. We hope they are right!

Mortgage companies added 700 full-time employees to their payrolls in February after cutting 3,000 positions in January.

All of the stocks in the Mortgage Industry Equity Composite, except for OceanFirst Financial and MGIC Investment Corp., finished Thursday’s trading ahead of their previous close.

American Realty Capital Properties is now offering 60% of its $9.7 billion offer for Cole Credit Properties Trust III in cash.

The California Department of Real Estate has issued an internal directive to start broker office surveys, which include unannounced and unscheduled visits to brokers' offices.

Moving company Mayflower said residential moves were up 16% in what are historically its slowest months for such activity—January through March.