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Citigroup's North American residential mortgage business seems to be treading water in terms of originations and servicing.

Zillow increased the expected price for common stock in its initial public offering to $16-$18, up from last week’s estimate of $12-$14, according to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

NorthEast Community Bancorp Inc. is ready to make a gutsy move — an aggressive push into Boston that also involves originating its first single-family mortgages in roughly two decades.

Mortgagematch.com, the loan origination website launched late last year by Move Inc., is no longer pairing borrowers with loans and home listings.

For consumers looking to buy a home or refinance, mortgage rates couldn’t be better.

Mortgage brokers are complaining to Congress that the Federal Reserve’s loan officer compensation rule is tying their hands, hurting their ability to compete with banks.

On the phone you have about 10 seconds or less with your words to capture a listener's attention, break their preoccupation with whatever they were doing when you called, and place them in a positive, receptive frame of mind to share information with you and listen with an open mind.

Government National Mortgage Association issuers sold $26.2 billion of mortgage-backed securities into the secondary market in June, up 3% from the previous month, according to new government figures.

Consumers who bought their current home in 2007 or later, but are reselling it now, are overpricing their properties by at least 14% on average, according to Zillow, the online real estate database.

Existing home sales rose 7.5% in June from the prior month on a non-seasonally adjusted basis and prices increased for the third consecutive month, according to new figures compiled by RE/MAX.