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Title insurance underwriters saw the volume of premiums written during the second quarter increase by $456 million over the same period last year, according to the American Land Title Association.

The recovery in the multifamily sector is hitting on all cylinders with rents rising, vacancies falling, and accelerating construction, while the single-family market is still on a slow path of revival.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offered new details about how the agency will examine large credit-reporting firms.

Plenty of mortgage banking firms are lining up to get their Ginnie Mae approvals so they can issue government-backed mortgage bonds and service the underlying loans.

Wells continued to be an origination powerhouse in the second quarter, funding $131 billion of new home mortgages and setting yet another record in quarterly market share.

Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan explains the correlation between rising student loan debt and its impact on household formation and mortgage originations.

The Treasury Department announced Sunday that it is getting ready to sell $18 billion of the stock it purchased in American International Group, a move that will result in the government owning less than 20% of the insurance conglomerate.

Housing bond volume jumped 36.1% between the first half of 2011 and the first half of this year.

You ask for their opinions of your work and they gave them. How you respond, not if, could cement the relationship.

Eminent domain for underwater loans and laws affecting foreclosures do impact loan originators, said the board of the California Association of Mortgage Professionals.