Economy

Commercial real estate investment firm Case Real Estate Capital has purchase two nonperforming senior notes for $20.5 million.

A unique public-private program in Dane County, Wis., uses shared-appreciation mortgages to develop new affordable housing units more effectively than other traditional financing options.

Loan-to-value ratios in commercial real estate lending have returned to their levels from the bubble days, Moody's says. Loss-rates look good for now, but trouble could be coming.

American Advisors Group has begun marketing a jumbo reverse mortgage loan over a year after it first planned to issue them.

The refinance mortgage market's unexpected resilience in 2015 has come as the result of a number of well-timed factors coalescing to create a welcomed surprise to lenders.

When the late-night television comedians joke about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — the two government-sponsored housing finance agencies that almost went belly-up during the housing crisis — you know they have reached the public consciousness.

Evans Bancorp in Hamburg, N.Y., has agreed to pay $825,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of mortgage redlining.

California's already tight housing market is facing another long-term complication: drought.

The gap between a homeowner's perceived value of their property versus an appraiser's widened in August on a monthly basis, according to Quicken Loans.

Mortgage applications by consumers purchasing a new home dipped in August from July, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The rising costs to service mortgages reflects a market where there are not only downsides to being too small, but hurdles to being too large — raising the question of whether there's a middle ground where servicers are not too big, not too small, but just right.

Homeowners are more pessimistic about the future of the housing market, while renters worry if they'll be able to afford to buy a home, according to a Zillow survey.

Interest rates head steady this week despite the monthly jobs report falling short of expectations, according to Freddie Mac.

Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry said banks could consider loan-to-value ratios above 90% to help revitalize areas hurt by the housing crisis.

FirstKey Holdings has formed a business unit to manage single-family rental homes.

The delinquency rate for commercial and multifamily mortgages continued to improve for most categories of investors in the second quarter, continuing a trend from the first quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Every consumer with a 401(k), retirement account or brokerage account ought to care about whether the government has the right to unilaterally amend a company’s operating agreement.

Mortgage applications fell 6.2% from a week earlier on a seasonally adjusted basis for the seven days ended Sept. 4, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Amid growing concerns about compliance costs in title insurance, a trio of title agents has formed a consortium to help smaller firms manage their back offices more efficiently.

The first Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index fell 0.5 points to 80.8 in August from where it would have been in July.