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The National Association of Realtors leading indicator of future existing home sales stalled in February.

Starting in July, Freddie Mac will make it easier for distressed borrowers who are having trouble meeting their monthly mortgage payments obtain a loan modification.

Mortgage applications during the week ending March 22 met expectations that they would reverse the previous week’s drop, rising 7.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis and 8% on an unadjusted basis.

The National Crime Prevention Council is hosting a virtual conference on how consumers, lenders and servicers can prevent mortgage fraud from occurring.

The National Association of Realtors’ venture capital fund Tuesday named six participating real estate technology start-ups it will be working with.

As the first quarter of the year comes to an end, Auction.com Research is forecasting cautious optimism for commercial real estate markets for 2013 and beyond.

Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher said he’d like the U.S. to reduce its mortgage-backed security purchases program amid signs that the economy will probably grow at about 3% by the end of the year.

A new poster on the Mortgage Grapevine wants to know whether a bank will loan against a certificate of deposit for $100 million.

QuestSoft has made updates to its Compliance Eagle platform so the platform is in compliance with the upcoming Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule changes.

Year-over-year defeasance of loans in commercial mortgage-backed securities increased significantly in 2012 reaching to its highest level since the eruption of the housing crisis in 2007