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Ed Gerding, senior fraud and risk strategist at CoreLogic, said short sale fraud is popular today due to the unprecedented levels of shadow inventory, high volume of overall distressed real estate inventory and relatively low property values.

Bank of America cut about 5% of staff in its appraisal unit last month as the firm rid itself of delinquent mortgages.

When does a warehouse loan become a loan, and who owns it?

Home loan applications tracked by the Mortgage Bankers Association’s latest weekly Market Composite Index dropped by 4.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis.

Ginnie Mae MBS issuance totaled $38.7 billion in February, up 1% from January,

Bliss Sawyer been working on a new e-book and recently wrote up the chapter on social media.

Mortgage servicing market insiders are monitoring regulators with the same attention federal and state legislators are monitoring mortgage banks in general and mortgage servicers in particular. The impact of this dynamic is significant and ongoing.

A Dallas woman who represented herself as a real estate investor to run a scheme that defrauded residential mortgage lenders has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas said that $10 million in Affordable Housing Program grants are now available to support housing and community development for struggling borrowers and cities.

Redwood Trust is preparing its fourth private-label residential mortgage-backed securitization of the year.