Originations

Barely removed from years of cleaning up credit quality, lenders are conceding terms to borrowers on everything from the length of amortization to waiving cancellation fees.

MountainView Capital Holdings named Joseph Mevorah to head its expanding investment banking business.

Rising demand for new homes has driven a builder confidence index to its highest level since 2005.

The number of U.S. properties filing for foreclosure inched up 2% from the 78-month low in June, but were still down 32% compared to a year ago.

The average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage during the week ending Aug. 15 stayed right where it was the previous week at 4.4%.

Creating an educated consumer by providing interactive tools geared at people of all the differing experience levels.

One Grapevine poster commented on how well certain companies are doing after they have been effectively nationalized by the U.S. government.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 113 points on Wednesday and 13 of 17 Mortgage Industry Equity Composite members finished lower.

Mortgages, the largest component of household debt, fell $91 billion on a quarterly basis and now stand at $7.84 trillion.

Oaktree Capital Management increased its stake in MGIC Investment Corp. while Perry Corp. lowered a holding in the mortgage insurer.

Quality Mortgage Services is offering a tool mortgage banks can use to comply with a new Fannie Mae requirement.

Most recently, he served as an executive vice president for Solutionstar, a subsidiary of Nationstar.

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FirstREX has hired Don Shewmaker as the new director of operations and Jim McGuire as sales director.

The Appraisal Institute said just 9% of residential appraisers will add full-time trainees in the next one to two years.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is working on a qualified mortgage rule to prevent any disruption to the VA home loan guarantee program.

Discontinued operations include the former Home Loan Center Inc. business sold to Discover in June 2012.

Freddie Mac has priced its new 0.875% three-year Reference Notes security due on Oct. 14, 2016 at 99.985 to yield 0.88%.

Commercial mortgage-backed securities market metrics when it comes to new issuance are stable compared to the previous quarter, but are worse than those seen a year ago.