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Loans refinanced under the Home Affordable Refinance Program declined in December to 41.1%.

The midsize New York mortgage lender and the West Coast bank created to house the IndyMac assets are worlds apart in many ways, but their rumored deal is strange enough to work, experts say.

Chairman and CEO Doug Lebda said the mortgage business performed particularly well in the fourth quarter.

Homeowners who were victims of the severe storms, tornadoes and flooding that occurred last month in Mississippi now have full access to Freddie Mac’s mortgage relief policies.

LoanSafeMods.com is offering a new tool designed to facilitate decision making for borrowers looking at foreclosure alternative options.

Joshua Rosner, co-author of a book detailing Fannie Mae’s role in the housing crisis, said he sees parallels between the failed mortgage finance giant and the strategies JPMorgan Chase & Co. uses to win government and investor confidence.

As the housing crisis winds down a shortage of mortgage banking executive talent that had been building up for a decade is reaching its peak.

Default attorneys discussed why foreclosure delays are so problematic in not only judicial states, but nonjudicial states, too

Ed Gerding, senior fraud and risk strategist at CoreLogic, said short sale fraud is popular today due to the unprecedented levels of shadow inventory, high volume of overall distressed real estate inventory and relatively low property values.

Bank of America cut about 5% of staff in its appraisal unit last month as the firm rid itself of delinquent mortgages.

When does a warehouse loan become a loan, and who owns it?

Mortgage servicing market insiders are monitoring regulators with the same attention federal and state legislators are monitoring mortgage banks in general and mortgage servicers in particular. The impact of this dynamic is significant and ongoing.

A Dallas woman who represented herself as a real estate investor to run a scheme that defrauded residential mortgage lenders has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison.

Several of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers, housing counseling nonprofits and insurance companies gathered in New Jersey to offer face-to-face assistance to New Jersey homeowners affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been selling their marketable MBS out of their investment portfolios over the past three years while accumulating whole loans, including distressed loans.

An increasing number of wealthy Eastern European homebuyers are looking for crisis-induced U.S. real estate opportunities.

The Georgia Department of Banking and Finance reached an agreement with a broker who violated the state’s Residential Mortgage Act.

Industry groups are urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to initiate a testing program for the new mortgage disclosure forms that will be used for qualified mortgages.

VantageScore Solutions has reconstructed its credit scoring model both to aid lender implementation and consumer understanding.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is targeting large banks and a wide variety of nonbanks rather than community banks.