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As the first quarter of the year comes to an end, Auction.com Research is forecasting cautious optimism for commercial real estate markets for 2013 and beyond.

The concern seems not to be the concept itself so much as its inclusion among larger structural weaknesses in jumbo mortgage-backed securities.

QuestSoft has made updates to its Compliance Eagle platform so the platform is in compliance with the upcoming Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule changes.

Year-over-year defeasance of loans in commercial mortgage-backed securities increased significantly in 2012 reaching to its highest level since the eruption of the housing crisis in 2007

One reason mortgage credit remains tight is because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have not spelled out their policies on loan buybacks, according to the chief executive of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.

Increased confidence is expected to accelerate consumer spending and improve U.S. housing demand throughout 2013.

DBRS provided its take on recent representation and warranties trends in residential mortgage-backed securities it finds have “the potential to considerably weaken investors’ ability to demand a repurchase.”

The seasonally adjusted rate of new single-family home sales in February dropped about 4.6% to 411,000 from a slight downward revision of the January rate to 431,000.

Stocks in the mortgage industry equity composite came in mixed again, but some did a little better than the Dow, which ended the day down 0.44%.

DocMagic has maintained a nearly perfect uptime record for the last four months, which included the company’s move to a new location and switch over to a new technology center.

Most commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquencies peaked at 10.34% in the middle of 2012 and fallen since then, but the 2007 vintage's remain high with an average delinquency rate of 14.6% over the past 12 months, according to Trepp.

Moody’s Investors Service said it would not give any classes of JPMorgan’s new jumbo securitization its top rating due to weaknesses in its structure.

Just about everyone deserves a second chance when it comes to challenges faced in life.

The banking crisis in Cyprus and European market volatility had a bump in the road effect on the performance of securitized commercial mortgage loans.

The appellate court reversed and allowed the plaintiff to sue JPMorgan Chase for fraud and breach of written contract.

There are these times in the rate/economy curve when those who run mortgage businesses have some serious decisions to make.

Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc. is in settlement talks with an investor group that sued the mortgage servicer over auctions of home loans backing securities.

CUNA Mutual has filed claims over $72 million of troubled MBS it bought from RBS Securities that were rated by S&P.

People who worked in the financial industry on the eve of the mortgage meltdown may themselves have believed in the seeming inevitability of rising home prices.

SharperLending LLC has partnered with Equifax to provide its lenders and resellers with a mortgage fraud identification and prevention tool that helps them track a borrower’s credit activity.