The merger with Capitol Investment V values the title insurer at $3 billion.

The acquisition of the mortgage fintech aligns with growing customer expectations surrounding a fully digital homebuying experience.

Acquiring AmeriHome would provide the fee revenue the Phoenix company seeks to compensate for low interest rates and tepid commercial loan demand. The deal also would allow it to reinvest billions of dollars of excess liquidity.

The Arizona company will pay $1 billion for the parent of AmeriHome Mortgage, which manages a $99 billion mortgage servicing portfolio.

Mike Cagney’s blockchain lending startup Figure Technologies plans to raise $250 million through a new blank-check company, according to an SEC filing.

First Foundation is relocating its corporate headquarters to Dallas, where the tax burden is lighter and it sees more opportunity to beef up lending, add wealth management clients and pursue acquisitions of community banks.

Also, private money is expected to return to the mortgage securitization market, according to lenders who responded to an Altisource survey.

The deal definitively ends a monthslong war of words between the data provider and stakeholders who attempted a hostile takeover.

The acquiring company does business under the name Excelerate Capital and will extend that name to Castle in order to expand its footprint.

The California company acquired Civic Financial Services, which makes loans to residential real estate investors.

The company is exploring a range of options to diversify its balance sheet, but new CEO Thomas Cangemi says the best plan of attack is to merge with or acquire another institution.

United Wholesale Mortgage is the third nonbank lender to complete the process of going public since the wave of announcements started last year.

The acquisition brings the credit report provider into the commercial and residential appraisal technology space.

The bank agreed to acquire A Mortgage Boutique, which operates in six states.

The deal will add to SitusAMC’s tech suite, making the connection between loan originators and lenders more efficient.

A new path forward for digital banks and their customers.

Social Finance Inc. is planning for takeovers after agreeing to go public in a merger with a blank-check company that values the upstart at around $8.7 billion.

The deal will add wholesale production to Guaranteed Rate's retail business.

While the agreement with China Oceanwide still remains in place, there was no formal extension of the Dec. 31 deadline.

Here are some of the more significant transactions that took place in a highly unusual year for the real estate finance business.