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Knowing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s roadmap can help companies avoid compliance deficiencies.

ING Real Estate Finance has agreed to sell 29 commercial real estate loans with an outstanding balance of $1.6 billion to Wells Fargo Bank NA.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said the current low pace of inflation wouldn’t ordinarily prompt the central bank to curtail stimulus.

Single-family housing starts fell 2% in July from the prior month as construction activity continues to lag expectations and the demand for new homes.

Estimates by Goldman Sachs Group researchers suggest more than half of all home purchases are done on a cash basis, or at least are financed to a far lesser degree than before the recent downturn.

The co-conspirators apparently have fled to Mexico.

Ellie Mae could still reward shareholders with a 26% gain after surging to a record last week.

The Mortgage Grapevine is discussing the news that the Obama administration exaggerated its mortgage fraud statistics.

The changes bring two pages of overlays down to just three items.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago is lining up new investors for its Mortgage Partnership Finance conduit program.

Homebuilder stocks like KB Home got a boost in the market on Thursday, bucking the prevailing trends.

The average rate for the 30-year fixed rate mortgage is expected to rise to 4.4% in the third quarter, but this is down from a July estimate of 4.5%.

Moody’s has added hotels to the real estate categories monitored by the agency’s national all-property Commercial Property Price Indices, which now also include the effect of distressed sales.

Barry Habib, chief market strategist for Residential Finance, explains the results from the latest National Association of Home Builders Housing Market Index, which was released at 59, stronger than expectations of 56.

The median size of newly constructed houses has crept steadily higher since the market crash.

Many workers serving summer vacationers in 207 U.S. metro areas struggle to find affordable housing.

Fitch Ratings has upgraded the issuer default rating of Stewart Information Services and has also upgraded the ratings on the nation’s second largest title underwriter, First American Financial.

Eligible homebuyers can apply for a $15,000 grant to purchase Cleveland-area homes as part of Wells Fargo's CityLIFT program.

CoreLogic does not expect any significant slowing in purchase mortgage originations.

Maryland’s biggest city saw foreclosures almost triple in July from a year earlier to 2,073.