Origination

The call for loan-level mortgage data sounded soon after the industry began to pick up the pieces from the housing market crash. It’s grown louder since then and the information is slowly becoming more available.

I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients, the president of a mid-sized company. We discussed how to develop a positive mindset.

The securitized commercial mortgage delinquency rate tracked by Trepp has fallen for two months in a row for the first time since the credit crisis began in 2008, but it stems primarily from delinquent loans resolving with losses rather than curing.

Lender Processing Services Inc.’s CEO and president Jeffrey S. Carbiener, is stepping down, effective immediately, for what the company said are significant health-related reasons.

TD Bank has appointed a director of retail lending sales and plans to hire roughly 100 residential mortgage staff along the East Coast of the United States.

Small mortgage banking companies got crushed in the first quarter between falling loan volumes and rising expenses.

Alabama isn't exactly a hotbed of housing activity. But folks in three of the Cotton State's markets put more money down than home buyers in any other locale.

Commercial/multifamily real estate pricing and loan performance are seeing improvement, but it is inconsistent, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The Federal Housing Administration is considering tightening borrowers' debt-to-income ratios, a move that would prevent the most highly leveraged consumers from qualifying to buy a home.

Mortgage application volume declined for the third consecutive week, this time by 5.2% for the week ended July 1, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.