Originations

Canadian mortgage bonds have attracted U.S. buyers in the past and the legal basis for these is stronger. But are home values there unsustainable?

Interest rates are likely to remain stable at least through January and the first quarter of next year.

The risk of income application fraud rose 13% year over year in the second quarter, according to CoreLogic's predictive scoring of fraud incidence in an estimated 2.4 million mortgage applications.

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The Senate Banking Committee has scheduled a hearing that will delve into the fundamentals of the private-label MBS market.

The refinancing boom for Federal Housing Administration lenders came to an end in July as loan production fell and purchase mortgage lending comprised over 60% of originations for the first time this year.

Strong investor appetite helped increase the nation’s outstanding commercial/multifamily mortgage debt by $24.5 billion in the second quarter.

The Federal Reserve System has released a written non-objection that gives TFS Financial Corp. the green light to resume its fourth stock repurchase program.

A DOJ complaint alleged that Southport Bank charged hundreds of African-American and Hispanic borrowers higher fees than white borrowers on wholesale mortgage loans.

Getting all of the financing pieces for affordable housing is difficult because nonprofit developers usually have to tap multiple sources of capital.

A former official at Bank of America Corp.’s Countrywide unit who filed a whistle-blower suit testified that in mid-2007, a unit of the lender created a business model that approved a home mortgage loan in 13 minutes.

The government-sponsored enterprises are leaving billions on the table by not going after deadbeat borrowers who may have the wherewithal to make good on their mortgages but failed to do so.

The Federal Housing Administration expects to have a $1.7 billion budget shortfall for FY 2013, which is entirely due to the FHA reverse mortgage program.

If the consumer pays a loan originator organization, the organization is allowed to pay a commission to the individual LO who originated the transaction.

A mortgage software provider recently launched a tool that unifies compliance tracking and rules application within a common management framework to monitor if a loan is delinquent.

We're hearing about the ability of a real estate broker to obtain a cash advance on an anticipated commission to be earned at closing.

The convergence between regulatory calls for machine-readable forms and technological advances are increasing the amount of electronic doc management used in origination and servicing.

Specialized Business Software, a provider of custom software solutions for mortgage, insurance and financial services companies, earlier this month released Docunym 2.2.

The index of pending home sales fell 1.6%, after a revised 1.4% decrease in July that was bigger than initially reported.

Iron Hound Management Co. recently completed the refinancing for two New York deals that was over $400 million.