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Federal regulators issued guidelines late this week clarifying accepted procedures for real estate appraisals and evaluations.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau needs to establish "clear goals that make sense to the American people," according to Elizabeth Warren who has been charged by President Obama to set up the new agency.

Mortgage companies added 1,100 full-time employees to their payrolls in October as more residential brokers returned to the field.

The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury broke above 3% briefly Thursday morning, a bad sign for mortgage rates, but there could be a glimmer of hope anyway: a pending home sales index created by the National Association of Realtors experienced an unexpected jump in October.

Commercial real estate loan prices resumed their upward movement of the past few months, rising from 80.5% at the end of September to 80.9% one month later, according to DebtX of Boston.

In a sign that the banking business is bouncing off the bottom of the economic trough, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is ready to start insuring new charters.

Reverse Mortgage Solutions this week launched a consumer, self-service website for borrowers to manage reverse mortgage accounts serviced by the Houston-based company.

If the result of the most recent J.D. Power loan originator satisfaction survey is any indication, the future of the mortgage industry involves keeping in touch with your borrower, but that connection could be done through technology and not the human touch.

Pentagon Federal Credit Union has rolled out a type of product that was popular during the housing boom, but out of favor the past few years: a hybrid adjustable-rate mortgage.

So you want to remember your favorite real estate agent over the holidays, right? (Okay, maybe you don’t—so don’t read this!) You’ll get lost in the “crowd” by giving a gift during Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, etc.