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Companies in the path of the storm have battened down the hatches, as others have prepared for the impact the hurricane could have on home sales and loan servicing in the weeks to come.

It's been a tough year for farmers, and lenders are looking for ways to help those borrowers offset sagging income.

Consumers were less inclined to buy a home in September, thanks to concerns about interest rates, home prices and the political environment.

A former top regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wants to abandon the development of the common securitization platform and use the existing Ginnie Mae platform to issue government-guaranteed mortgage-backed securities.

Conforming mortgage rates were unchanged this week even as the 10-year Treasury's yield rose in response to the European Central Bank's decision to slow its bond purchase program, according to Freddie Mac.

Bank of America has ended its agreement with PHH Corp. that saw the Mount Laurel, N.J.-based company perform private-label originations for Merrill Lynch.

M&T Bank is offering mortgage subsidies through a new program to qualified consumers in New Jersey and nearby states.

More than $200 billion of the most poorly underwritten commercial mortgages originated before the financial crisis come due this year and next, many of them still underwater.

The Federal Reserve's mishandling of monetary policy in the 1970s opened the door to questionable products for unqualified borrowers, setting the stage for the housing crisis 30 years later.

Late payments on securitized commercial mortgages reversed course in September and resumed a climb that began in March, according to Trepp.