Origination

Sales staff management is not rocket science.

Buyers of non-owner occupied properties need financing too.

Mortgage originators can learn from what the owner of this small town drug store did.

There are advantages to the buyer and seller making sure the mortgage contingency remains in the sales contract.

Analyze your mission, break it apart and identify necessary actions.

The Attorney Generals in Arizona and California are pursuing loan modification fraud cases.

Fidelity National Financial Inc., Jacksonville, Fla., this week priced a $400 million offering of 10-year notes that yield 5.564% in 2022.

CMG Mortgage, a national wholesale lender, said it is temporarily suspending production of HARP 2.0 loans through loan brokers because of problems associated with long turn times.

The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage continued its slow increase during the week ending Aug. 23, rising four basis points to 3.66%.

Lately, we’re hearing way too many stories about mortgage firms turning away business and temporarily scaling back loan channels because they’re too swamped with applications.