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Altisource Portfolio Solutions has upgraded its sell-it-yourself real estate platform, Owners.com, and will offer a rebate to buyers who purchase a home through the site.

Discover Financial Services will exit the residential mortgage-origination business that it acquired in 2012.

Casey Crawford went from playing on a team that won the Super Bowl to running a mortgage company that he expects to originate almost $8 billion in U.S. home loans this year.

The mortgage lender Nationstar Mortgage Holdings is pouring a lot of energy into a digital and mobile homebuying platform called Xome. The strategy could attract tech-savvy millennials but carries plenty of risks including whether consumers would be improperly steered to its products.

There are more similarities between the NFL and the mortgage industry than at first meets the eye.

WashingtonFirst Bankshares in Reston, Va., has agreed to buy direct mortgage lender 1st Portfolio Holding Corp. in Fairfax, Va.

With the countdown of the 2015 Top Producers rankings now complete, check out the entire list of this year's best loan officers and brokers.

We're counting down this year's Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the latest segment of the list!

We're counting down this year's Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the latest segment of the list!

We're counting down this year's Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the latest segment of the list!

We're counting down this year's Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the latest segment of the list!

We're counting down this year's Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the latest segment of the list!

We're counting down this year's Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the latest segment of the list!

We're counting down this year's Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the latest segment of the list!

We're counting down this year's Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the latest segment of the list!

We're counting down this year's Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the latest segment of the list!

ON's 16th annual mortgage rankings show how the country's best loan officers made the most out of a tumultuous year for originators.

Mike Cagney of Social Finance, honored Wednesday at LendIt's innovator of the year, chalks up his success to his company's "relationship-driven" model.

Lenders must act affirmatively to avoid confusion in the marketplace. A lender's obligations start before a relationship with a potential borrower exists.

Loans4Less.com in Redondo Beach, Calif., has agreed to buy consumer lending and peer-to-peer technology platform 321Lend.