Foreclosures

The national foreclosure inventory decreased 21.7% to about 456,000 in January, according to CoreLogic.

Servicers are taking a much-needed hard look at the full range of customer touch-points that they operate, and NMN's 10th annual Mortgage Servicing Conference promises to offer an engaging agenda of hottest trends and topics.

The mortgage industry provided about 420,000 loan modifications last year to homeowners struggling to make payments, according to Hope Now.

Commercial and multifamily mortgage delinquency rates dropped in the fourth quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Oversight of the four largest mortgage servicers' compliance with the national mortgage settlement is officially over, the watchdog overseeing the process said Thursday.

PHH Corp. reported a bigger loss in the fourth quarter, on costs to restructure its business and a loss on sales of mortgage servicing rights.

Fannie Mae has sold a pool of about $13.2 million of nonperforming loans to New Jersey Community Capital.

The Treasury Department will invest an additional $2 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program into a federal fund that seeks to protect homeowners from foreclosure.

Mortgage loan delinquencies declined in January, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

The number of properties in foreclosure nationwide declined in January, according to RealtyTrac.