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Most Mortgage Industry Equity Composite members saw lower volume in their stock traded on Tuesday as the market waits for news from the Fed.

Veros has updated its appraisal risk scoring tool, VeroSCORE, to focus on the complexity of appraisal assignment.

The Mortgage Bankers Association’s commercial and multifamily loan origination index for 2Q13 is 167.

Confidence among U.S. consumers declined more than forecast in July after reaching a five-year high a month earlier as Americans grew more pessimistic about the outlook for the economy and employment.

Barry Habib, chief market strategist for Residential Finance, provides statistics on the Case-Shiller Home Price Index as well as figures from CoreLogic's latest foreclosure report.

A few companies took a different path choosing to involve their employees by sharing all related business information and asking: What can we do together to cut costs and survive through the crisis period?

Scott Robinson’s one-year term will begin at the beginning of 2014, followed by one-year terms each as president-elect, president and immediate past president.

Nationstar Mortgage Holdings was sued for failing to complete a $150 million sale of residential mortgage loans it offered at auction.

A poster on the Mortgage Grapevine is asking if the government is really considering creating HARP 3.0.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a former California mortgage broker earlier this month at his home for a violation of bank fraud.

Besides retail, EverBank will still purchase loans through the correspondent channel.

Stonegate Mortgage Corp. has opened a new branch in Brandon, Fla.

The U.S. homeownership rate, which soared to a record high 69.2% in 2004, is back where it was two decades ago, before the housing bubble inflated and ripped more than 7 million Americans from their homes.

Located at 4857 Broadway in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan, this 38,000-square-foot concrete and steel residential and retail building is the first of its kind built in New York City. Photo: Courtesy of GLUCK+.

The Tax Foundation's economic model finds that after the effects of wiping out the mortgage deduction are fully phased in, the economy would shrink by $254 billion.

The national foreclosure inventory continues to fall as fewer foreclosures were completed in the month of June.

The latest reading of the S&P Case-Shiller house price index shows rising prices in Dallas and Denver surpassed their pre-financial crisis peaks set in June 2007 and August 2006.

Due process is an integral piece of each failed transaction.

Most Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks were down and activity muted as investors wait for the Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week.

Median sales prices in Georgia are 35% higher at the midway point of 2013 compared to a year ago.