Originations

California Realtors are raising objections to the Corker-Warner GSE reform bill because of the reduction in loan limits in high-cost areas.

The Dodd-Frank Act gave the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau the explicit authority to conduct examinations and take supervisory actions against large nonbanks.

Millions of homeowners are still delinquent on their mortgages or owe more than their homes are worth.

Educational efforts that focus on helping home seekers understand all of their housing options are not limited to the National Homeownership Month in June.

ResCap has already paid $1.13 billion to Ally to satisfy claims regarding the secured facilities the parent company provided to the mortgage lender.

During 2008 and 2009, a contractor who worked on several HPD construction projects paid Adorno $100,000 to obtain additional work from the city agency.

That was good news for Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks as 13 of the 17 members closed higher than they did on Tuesday.

Related Cos. has entered into a joint venture with Highbridge Principal Strategies to create a commercial real estate credit investment platform.

Mortgage Grapevine poster Loansumdove is in a quandary over the annual percentage rate.

We're hearing that summer has finally arrived here on the plains. So what now?

A campaign among the branches of Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. has raised over $50,000 for The One Fund, which supports the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.

I had a chance to sponsor a hole at our local Realtor golf tournament.

In an effort to simplify its mortgage process and improve compliance, BOK Financial has chosen DocuTech’s mortgage loan document software.

The credit union lobby on Tuesday was measured in its comments about the proposed privatization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, even as it seeks to carve out secondary market protections for credit unions.

New findings reiterate the need for expanded access to financial coaching services that result in greater overall economic stability for low- to moderate-income families and the country at large.

Fidelity National Financial has gotten the lenders representing nearly three-quarters of its $800 million credit facility to agree to an amendment and extension of the line to help pay for the acquisition of Lender Processing Services.

In this segment of a roundtable discussion from the 2013 Mortgage Bankers Association’s National Fraud Issues Conference, the panelists explain how a closing agent is now doing a vendors job verifying the information that is submitted on a loan application.

While overall application volume decreased by 3% from the prior week on a seasonally adjusted basis for the week ended June 21, purchase applications were up, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

Some lenders are still operating under the old “fix it later” mentality.

After including new issuance the so-called serious delinquency rate is at 8.2%.