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Tight inventories and winter weather are taking the steam out of home sales.

Investors sold off their holdings of Ellie Mae in anticipation of the company’s fourth-quarter results.

More laws, more regulations, more rules, more confusion for mortgage originators.

Armour Residential REIT Inc. priced a public offering of 65 million shares of common stock.

Did the American Land Title Association shoot itself in the foot with its best practices statement?

Bank of America Merrill Lynch invested more than $2.6 billion in community development in 2012, generating nearly 11,000 affordable housing units.

FICO has launched an analytic solution that combats first-party and third-party application fraud which reportedly costs credit grantors in the U.S. more than $6.7 billion a year.

Flagstar Bancorp is selling its DocVelocity imaging business to Capsilon.

The Federal Housing Administration has not met its statutorily mandated 2% capital requirement since 2009, according to the General Accountability Office.

As paychecks for consultants hired to review faulty foreclosures threatened to exceed compensation to the homeowners harmed by the flaws, the Comptroller of the Currency says he decided to end the reviews.