Originations

Five states top a new LendingTree report that analyzes the financial health of prospective borrowers ranking each state based on a 100-point scale.

Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust has priced a public offering of 2.75 million shares of its common stock at $4.30 per share.

Toll Brothers reported higher home sales and higher pretax earnings for the third quarter ending in July 31.

Orrstown Bank has recovered $2.5 million it had been owed by the bankrupt Yorktown Financial, a company which had provided residential home construction financing.

As the housing market moves on the path towards recovery, mortgage fraud is a crime of economic opportunity in which scammers are still taking advantage of distressed borrowers.

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One economist has noted that rising mortgage rates have pushed some buyers into the market.

According to one economist, housing inventories are low and credit standards are tight and that is not going to change anytime soon.

The Mortgage Bankers Association reported a 4.6% decline in mortgage application volume on a seasonally adjusted basis for the week ended Aug. 16.

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Mortgage insurer MGIC Investment Corp.’s percentage gain was the largest at the close of the standard trading day when it was up 5.46% at $7.15 per share.

The default rate for first mortgages was 1.25% in July, up from last month’s low point of 1.23%, while second mortgage defaults “remained flat since last month at its historic low of 0.54%.”

Kroll Bond Ratings Agency said in a report to expect more of the aggressive growth the market has seen since the liquidity crisis.

Prudential is expanding in core real estate as the insurer uses the strategy to diversify retirement plans and draw in investors beyond the U.S.

From January 2012 to December 2012, there were 69,277 MLF SARs reported compared to 92,561 throughout the year before.

A poster on the Mortgage Grapevine is asking for what originators and borrowers have experienced using credit repair services.

Credit unions have grown increasing dependent on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the past five years as a source of liquidity and access to the secondary market.

With new outsourcers appearing every day, it is time to revisit the dos and don’ts of vendor selection and management.

Gains in the two desert cities Las Vegas and Phoenix are the biggest since the height of the real estate boom, just before their plunge to the bottom of the national housing collapse.