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Tree.com Inc. had net income of over $27 million in the second quarter, driven largely by the $26 million gain recorded on the sale of Home Loan Center Inc. to Discover.

LenderLive Network has been selected to become a mortgage servicer for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Technology at home is about wants, while technology at work should be about needs—business needs.

A new survey by Ernst & Young has found representatives of more than two dozen major building operations to be the most optimistic they’ve been in years.

The government controlled Freddie Mac posted solid earnings of $1.1 billion in the second quarter – after paying the U.S. Treasury Department $1.8 billion in dividends on the preferred stock it owns.

Low-income community revitalization has always been one of the most challenging jobs in housing finance. Both investors and individual buyers are hard to come by these days when cost is an issue for sellers as much as it is for buyers.

A large majority of banks participating in the Home Affordable Refinancing Program have restricted their refis to mortgages they already service or own, according to a July survey of senior loan officers by the Federal Reserve.

Appraisers may have started to change their business practices one at a time probably only a few years ago, but their strategy shift and where they are headed already has started to become clear.

Valued Veterans, an appraisal management company, seeks to train military veterans as real estate appraisers.

Whoever writes the copy for the Blondie comic strip has to have a marketing and motivation background. Once again, this strip has some marketing advice that is dead on for any person in a sales position, let alone a mortgage originator.