Industries

Conforming mortgage rates barely budged this past week as the industry awaits news from the Federal Reserve Thursday afternoon regarding a potential rate hike.

New-home construction fell in August, indicating the real estate recovery will take time to evolve.

Connected Investors has created a new centralized real estate investment funding portal that the Wilmington, N.C.-based company believes will simplify deals and relationships.

A report to examine the conditions surrounding last year’s unrest in Ferguson, Mo., is calling for officials to strengthen poor minority communities’ access to banking services and restrict the prevalence of predatory lending to reduce crime and poverty.

Refinancings as part of the total origination market rose slightly in August, according to Ellie Mae.

Mortgage applications dropped 7% from the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the period ending Sept. 11.

Confidence among homebuilders rose in September to the highest level in almost a decade, signaling momentum in residential real estate will support growth in the second half of 2015.

A survey from Wells Fargo and Gallup has found that investors continue to take advantage of low interest rates.

Colony Mortgage, a real estate investment trust that specializes in "transitional," or improving property, is preparing its third securitization, according to Moody's Investors Service.

California lawmakers passed legislation to change the way communities wind down their shuttered redevelopment agencies, leaving cities and their advocates trying to tally the effects of the last-minute bill.

Wells Fargo has set a goal to originate $125 billion in residential mortgages to Hispanic borrowers by 2025.

The free market wouldn't plop down a trailer park just a few miles from downtown San Jose. At least not today, in a sharply spiking housing market that has made the metropolitan area one of the most expensive in the U.S.

Loan performance has improved since the housing crisis. But credit challenges persist, while higher housing costs combined with a plateau in wages have put increased strain on some borrowers' finances.

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.

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.