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New-home sales rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 389,000 units in September, the highest reading since April 2010.

Are private mortgage owners taking too much cash out of their companies?

A Washington research executive at Keefe Bruyette & Woods believes GSE reform may move quicker if Obama gets reelected, but not by much.

It may a bit premature to predict that a boom in mergers and acquisitions is just around the corner, but at the very least there appears to be some jockeying for position among firms already plying their trade in residential finance.

According to the Federal Housing Finance Agency's index, home values rose the most in the nation's mountain state region, a handsome gain of 11.4%.

Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry said the agency recognizes that some aspects of the provisions pertaining to mortgages could impose a serious burden on community banks and thrifts.

Housing advocates Bob Gnaizda and John Hope Bryant are pitching the Dignity Mortgage, a loan that could be made to nonprime borrowers with built-in protections and incentives for both borrowers and lenders.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will supervise debt collection companies, a move that marks the second time it has asserted its authority under Dodd-Frank to oversee large nonbanks outside the direct lending sphere.

Wholesaler Mortgage 360 suports the Home Affordable Refinance Program.

A year ago economists at the Mortgage Bankers Association were bracing for an ugly 2012, one in which a meager $900 billion in fundings would come to pass.