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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.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas has signed up for the Mortgage Partnership Finance Xtra program.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency has assigned preliminary ratings to UBS-BB 2013-C6, a $1.3 billion commercial mortgage-backed securities conduit transaction.

Mislabeling by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has exaggerated the number of consumer complaints the bureau received regarding mortgage brokers.

With the April 15 tax filing deadline less than two weeks away, Amy Tierce has a couple of things any self-employed person needs to be aware of.

California’s housing counselors find the nation’s largest banks already are failing to comply with the National Mortgage Settlement and the state’s Homeowners Bill of Rights.

Only two of the 17 stocks tracked by the Mortgage Industry Equity Composite index survived the investor selloff during Wednesday.

MBIA Insurance Corp. received a favorable ruling from the New York Appellate Court, First Department, against Bank of America Corp. and Countrywide Home Loans.

CoreLogic said in its monthly Home Price Index that home values escalated by 10.2% in February compared to a year ago.

We're hearing it’s time to figure out exactly how originators should get paid for consumer direct lending.