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Mortgage professionals brave enough to bring mortgage fraud to light deserve the same level of protections as workers in other businesses, rather than be subjected to a patchwork of laws designed for other industries.

The home sales market may be ready to trend upward, based on consumers' responses in a recent Fannie Mae survey.

Mortgage rates for 30-year loans fell for the first time in three weeks as investors worried about political and financial turmoil in Greece and China turned to the relative safety of American debt.

The technical glitch that suspended trading on the New York Stock Exchange for much of Wednesday shocked Wall Street, but the one-to-one nature of mortgage-backed securities trades meant the secondary mortgage market was not impaired by the outage.

The mortgage real estate investment trust sector is diversifying as margin compression and bank apprehension changes market dynamics, according to reports from Kroll Bond Ratings and Fitch Ratings.

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Common Securitization Solutions have created an industry group tasked with providing feedback and sharing information on the creation of a uniform residential mortgage-backed security.

The Greek debt crisis and China's stock-market crash may put downward pressure on interest rates and delay the Fed's interest rate hike, and they are adding uncertainty at a time when lenders thought recovery would be taking hold.

Borrowing costs for U.S. homebuyers may be falling again, thanks to Greece's woes, but not as much as they could be.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency wants to exclude mortgage REITs from membership in the Federal Home Loan Banks. That would be a major setback for the entry-level borrowers who depend on mortgage REITs for sustainable home-financing options.

Deutsche Bank, Jefferies and UBS have set final pricing terms on $1.35 billion in commercial mortgage bonds, according to a regulatory filing.