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The Obama administration is making a push for more home loans to be available for people with challenging credit.

Approximately 57% of all commercial mortgage-backed securities reaching their balloon date in March paid off as scheduled.

For the past several days, fans of the Mortgage Grapevine were unable to get their fix of industry news, loan scenarios, politics, general gossip and other stuff as the board had to be taken out of service.

New cures outpaced new notices of default at Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. by 3,268 loans.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency has assigned preliminary ratings to a $260 million large loan commercial mortgage-backed securities deal secured by a Florida mall.

We're hearing about Section 184 loans, designed to promote homeownership for American Indian and Alaska Native families.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking an enforcement action against four private mortgage insurance companies for allegedly paying kickbacks to lenders for business referrals.

NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. has priced a preferred stock offering which will raise $175 million for the company.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. defeated most of a lawsuit brought by Dexia SA over about $1.6 billion in mortgage-backed securities it bought before the financial crisis.

The average rate for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage in Freddie Mac’s weekly survey dropped three basis points to 3.54% during the week ending April 4.