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All but four Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks were losers on Monday as the market reacted to uncertainty in Europe.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency has assigned preliminary investment grade ratings to another single-borrower commercial mortgage-backed securities transaction.

Hallmark Home Mortgage has formally launched USA Wholesale Lending.

A poster on the Mortgage Grapevine is asking for help from fellow community members.

In the eyes of the attorneys general from nine states principal writedowns on federally insured mortgage loans are the Achilles’ heel of the housing and overall economic recovery.

Housing forecasters remain optimistic that property values will continue to increase over the next several years and exceed pre-bubble rates by 2017.

Due to their access to capital, the big national builders are getting lots of orders and they are scooping up building lots.

A group of 42 independent appraisal companies have unified their operations under the name Valbridge Property Advisors.

Some mortgage market players look at the new rules coming out of Dodd-Frank as one huge pain in the neck.

Langley FCU has signed with Mortgage Cadence to implement the company’s Symphony platform to support the credit union’s rapidly expanding mortgage program.