Originations

A former mortgage broker who had worked for a business in Beaverton, Ore., faces more than four years of prison time.

Refinance application activity sank to its lowest level since June 2009, while the market share of refi apps is at a point not seen since April 2010.

JPMorgan Chase is easing mortgage lending standards in housing markets hard hit by the crash where prices are surging.

The candidate's ads made a personal connection with voters and created a primary-winning effort.

The impact is already depressing home values and freezing the market in certain communities.

Of the more than 650,000 first-lien mortgage applications submitted online last year, 35% came from someone 50 or older.

Bill McBride of Calculated Risk finds the August Las Vegas housing market trends are offering the best window so far into whether the residential real estate inventory has bottomed.

Starwood's pricing worked out to approximately $24.30 per share.

Even though the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 125 points, just nine Mortgage Industry Equity Composite members closed higher on Tuesday.

The HUD Inspector General and Department of Justice officials are in settlement talks with some the largest Federal Housing Administration lenders.

One poster is seeking an answer from the Mortgage Grapevine community regarding investment property refinance guidelines.

UC Funding has funded an acquisition bridge loan secured by a first mortgage on a 304-unit garden-style Class B apartment community in San Antonio.

Speculation is growing that the GSE regulator is considering a reduction in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s base loan limit to $400,000 from $417,000.

The Massachusetts attorney general said that Barclays will pay $36.1 million to settle allegations that it financed, purchased and securitized residential loans during the subprime mortgage meltdown.

Strategic Hotels & Resorts was able to get an amendment to cross-collateralized mortgage agreements on loans securing two luxury hotels.

Wells Fargo will invest $11.4 million to help accelerate the economic recovery through neighborhood improvement projects in 25 cities affected by the foreclosure crisis.

Bank of America is being removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the close of trading on Friday and being replaced by Goldman Sachs.

Progress Residential, a single-family rental company started by former Goldman Sachs Group partner Donald R. Mullen Jr., obtained a $400 million credit line from Deutsche Bank AG.

Usually, loan officers with a lot of unclosed loans in the pipeline—and therefore commissions at stake—are hesitant to make a move.

CoreLogic said about 2.5 million more residential properties returned to a state of positive equity during the second quarter.