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A 21% year-over-year decline in the inventory of homes listed for sale by mid-May indicates many metro areas hardest hit by price declines may be recovering.

At some point the White House might finally understand that the regulatory pendulum has swung much too far in the other direction.

Mortgage lenders are unlikely to loosen credit or expand their servicing and origination capacities until Washington policymakers make key decisions about the future of the nation’s housing finance system.

Residential lenders funded $462 billion of home mortgages in the first quarter, the industry’s best showing since the fourth quarter of 2010.

REO assets represented one-third of the overall CMBS delinquency rate in April, reaching $11.1 billion in scheduled loan balance.

Here's a pop quiz for mortgage professionals everywhere: name a foreign bank that successfully bought a U.S. mortgage banking operation—or grew one from scratch—and actually did well with it.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s reasoning in an amicus brief and broke ranks with other courts in ruling on a borrower’s right to rescind and void a mortgage contract.

How effective is social media as a sales tool? According to a pair of researchers at Behavioral Sciences Research Press, the old tried and true method of person-to-person contact is much more effective.

The Federal Housing Administration will begin collecting full, electronic appraisal reports for the mortgages that it insures.

The FHFA has created a financial incentive for executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to ensure that deadlines for the Uniform Mortgage Data Program are met.