Foreclosures

Wells Fargo estimates that in 400 instances, borrowers later went through foreclosure who were improperly denied or not offered a mortgage modification.

Baltimore had the highest share of distressed home sales of any city in the country, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Just 5.1% of the $91 million of liens backing the transaction are vacant, down from 9.2% of the prior deal; this allowed the sponsor to borrower more heavily against the value of hte collateral.

Radian Group's second-quarter earnings beat consensus estimates because of lower loan loss provisions than forecast, along with record new mortgage insurance written.

Mortgage foreclosure starts and active foreclosures were at their lowest level in over a decade although there was an increase in new delinquencies in June, according to Black Knight.

Continued favorable loss development trends allowed MGIC Investment Corp. to beat analyst estimates for the second-quarter earnings report.

Fewer Dallas-area homeowners are behind in their mortgage payments than at any time since the Great Recession.

Connecticut entered July with the fifth-highest rate of residential mortgages under foreclosure in the nation, according to a study of more than 360,000 foreclosures nationally over the first six months of the year.

Foreclosure filings plummeted in the first half of the year, but 40% of local markets saw foreclosure starts increase, with the last housing bubble no longer to blame for the growth, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Healthier economic conditions, more effective underwriting methods and recovering hurricane-impacted states helped drive delinquency and foreclosure rates to their lowest level in over 10 years, according to CoreLogic.