Originations

Excessive construction lending by banks and thrifts during the housing boom led to many failures and losses to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Bribing the loan officer was part of a scheme that contributed to the bank’s failure.

Participants at the National Mortgage News roundtable in New York see a few years of healthy activity left for the distressed mortgage market despite the slowdown in foreclosures and shadow inventory.

Unlike the previous transactions, the latest deal is backed by loans to borrowers that have missed payments in the last 12 months.

Housing bonds turned a hefty 80% gain for the first half even as the entire municipal bond market was showing a 12% decline.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has provided small banks and credit unions that operate in rural and underserved counties with certain exemptions from its mortgages rules.

Jones Lang LaSalle Property Income Trust has closed a $40 million revolving line of credit from Bank of America.

Is the mortgage market robust enough to say no thanks to the Fed’s easing, which has kept rates at record lows for years.

Employment in the mortgage banking and brokerage sector edged down to 292,200 in May on a nonadjusted basis from 293,000 in April.

Municipal Mortgage & Equity has sold its fixed-rate performing multifamily bond portfolio to Merrill Lynch Portfolio Management Inc.

Keep reading and rereading anything to do with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Mortgage Grapevine poster Power Pig shared with the rest of the community a new way he has found to supplement his income.

Redwood Trust has issued another jumbo residential mortgage-backed securitization through Sequoia Trust that brings its total of deals done so far this year to nine.

Americans are finding it pays to go big when borrowing to buy a home.

The stock market closed early for Independence Day, with nine of the 17 Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks up.

There is more information on the Internet on “how to take advantage of great foreclosure deals” than how to contend with the threat of foreclosure.

We're hearing as this is a holiday week, it seems fitting that my blog post focus on a recent vacation.

Two cornerstones of the mortgage business will be penalized under the risk-based capital regime the federal banking agencies are adopting.

Trulia finds that nationally asking prices for homes rose 10.7% year-over-year in June.

The issuance of nonagency residential mortgage-backed securities so far in 2013 is approaching the $11 billion mark, according to Standard & Poor's.