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Clear Capital reported a 4% quarter-over-quarter increase in home prices through the end of August, but the firm is projecting a bumpy future for the fall and winter seasons.

I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients, the president of a professional services firm. We talked about how he was driven to achieve his goals and addicted to perfection.

Nationstar Mortgage, Lewisville, Texas, is contemplating making a bid for Bank of America's correspondent lending division, or at least parts of it, according to industry advisors who claim to have knowledge of the matter.

The housing market could be picking up a slight head of steam, but only in selected markets, according to the Federal Reserve's new 'Beige Book' report.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is pushing back against claims that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were sophisticated investors that should have done a better job of vetting their purchases of mortgage-backed securities.

A New Jersey mortgage broker has been charged with submitting false information to qualify for 13 multifamily loans with the help of a loan coordinator at Paragon Federal Credit Union, Montvale, N.J.

For the third time in the last four months, Trepp said the delinquency rate for commercial mortgage-backed securities has dropped.

Reverse Mortgage Solutions is the latest reverse mortgage lender to step into the void created when two of the largest lenders of this product pulled out of the market. The Houston-based originator and servicer of Home Equity Conversion Mortgages is starting a wholesale production channel for these loans.

Although mortgage rates continue to test new all-time lows, applications took a tumble last week, a sign that consumers continue to be spooked by uncertainty in the overall economy.

Many of the country's largest banks received $6 billion in kickbacks from mortgage insurers over the course of a decade, according to a previously undisclosed investigation by the Inspector General of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.