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Redwood Trust reported growth in profits in the fourth quarter, largely as a result of higher realized gains on the sales of residential securities.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Feb. 26.

Understanding how consumers pay their debts over time is expected to widen access to credit for consumers recovering from financial problems or who were hard to score before. Just how many it will benefit is an open debate.

Interest rates on fixed-rate mortgages fell this week, according to Freddie Mac, after a small rally in the previous two weeks.

The U.S. Justice Department will decide in the next few months whether it will sue Moody's Corp. for allegedly inflating ratings on mortgage bonds at the heart of the 2008 financial meltdown.

PHH Corp. reported a bigger loss in the fourth quarter, on costs to restructure its business and a loss on sales of mortgage servicing rights.

Fannie Mae has sold a pool of about $13.2 million of nonperforming loans to New Jersey Community Capital.

Home prices rose 5.8% in the fourth quarter from a year earlier as buyers competed for a tight supply of listings.

An increased level of home-purchase mortgage applications led to continued improvement in the U.S. housing market in December, according to Freddie Mac.

Nationstar Mortgage is in the market with the second rated securitization of what are nonperforming Home Equity Conversion Mortgage loans, according to Moody's Investors Service.