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HFF has closed the $19.7 million sale of and arranged a $14.6 million financing for the Fountains at North Port in Florida.

Genworth Financial is selling its wealth management business to the Aquiline Capital Partners-Genstar Capital partnership.

A mortgage poster is looking for a loan on an investment property that is held in the borrower’s individual name.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston awarded Leominster CU a $150,000 Equity Builder grant to help low-income residents make downpayments and pay closing costs on a mortgage.

First American Financial Corp. said that Mark Oman has been appointed to the company’s board of directors.

In its first-ever U.S. foreclosure inventory analysis, RealtyTrac said nearly 1.5 million properties were actively in the foreclosure process or bank-owned in the first quarter of 2013.

U.K. house prices were little changed in March, according to Nationwide Building Society, which said the outlook is “unusually uncertain.”

You know the type: The originator who wakes up each morning with absolutely no idea what he's going to do for the day or from where his next loan will come. The originator starts the morning daydreaming about what’s to come over the weekend, or what could happen if he or she were to suddenly have a booming pipeline of business.

Sao Paulo-based Cetip has been working with FNC on collateral management automation for the Brazilian mortgage industry.

A borrower living on a 10-acre property with a good credit score, loan-to-value below 50% and good reserves wants to do a refinance.