Economy

There's a workaround for lenders to issue pre-approvals without triggering the three-day window for delivering the new Loan Estimate disclosure.

New servicing standards issued by the government-sponsored enterprises are unlikely to pose a hurdle for the biggest nonbank players in the market, but small servicers could find it more challenging.

More Americans than forecast signed contracts to purchase previously owned homes in April, indicating a pickup in the housing market during the busy spring selling period.

Mortgage rates climbed, lifting borrowing costs for homebuyers to the highest for 2015.

Ocwen Financial will close a call center in Houston as the mortgage servicer continues to downsize.

Take this with a large dose of salt, but an online survey by credit agency Experian shows the benefits of, you guessed it, credit reports.

Freddie Mac auctioned off 1,052 delinquent nonperforming loans serviced by Ocwen on May 21 as part of its Standard Pool Offerings.

Freddie Mac's monthly Multi-Indicator Market Index showed almost 80% of the top 100 housing markets in the country continued to improve in March from February.

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community overwhelmingly views homeownership as a strong investment, although worries of housing discrimination persist, according to a new study.

Freddie Mac is in the market with its fourth risk-sharing transaction of the year.

In a sign that the GSEs may once again be trying to compete with each other, Freddie Mac will no longer charge lenders to use its Loan Prospector automated underwriting system.

Eight years after the bottom fell out of the housing market, investment giants including BlackRock are facing off against small hedge funds over the detritus of the subprime era.

Technology that takes into account the sales, cost and income approaches to property valuations is a more comprehensive method of risk assessment and can help detect pricing bubbles before they wreak havoc on the mortgage and real estate industries.

Toll Brothers Inc., the largest U.S. luxury homebuilder, reported an increase in quarterly earnings as lower tax provisions made up for a decline in revenue.

Mortgage applications fell 1.6% on an adjusted basis from a week earlier, according to a weekly survey by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Britain's largest taxpayer-owned lender, could pay as much as $4.5 billion to resolve claims of misconduct in its handling of U.S. mortgage securities.

Veros will offer a direct connection to the Federal Housing Administration's new Electronic Appraisal Delivery portal using the same interface it offers for submitting appraisals to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The Mortgage Collaborative has entered into an agreement with Fannie Mae that would make certain enhancements of its benefits available to its lenders.

Home prices rose 1.2% from February and 4.8% year-over-year in March, representing the largest monthly gain since June 2013, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

San Francisco continued its reign atop HSH.com's list of salaries needed in 27 metro areas to afford a median-priced home in the first quarter.