Originations

DBRS found in a commercial mortgage-backed securities investor survey that the majority of respondents expect their holdings to increase over the next 12 months despite some concerns about loosening underwriting standards in the sector.

The Orion Financial Group has introduced i3, a proprietary mortgage document imaging and storage services software for small to medium-sized investors.

A father and son were sentenced in Newark, N.J., federal court for running a fraudulent foreclosure rescue company that obtained $4.4 million in mortgage loans.

Data indicate atypical economic conditions at the local and national level will lead to atypical new delinquency rates that are bound to slow down the housing market recovery during the rest of 2013.

EPR Properties has priced a $275 million debt offering at an interest rate of 5.250%. The senior notes are due in 2023.

Many American Indian reservations are mortgage deserts, with lenders avoiding them like the plague because of difficulties over land status, persistent poverty, and lack of lending infrastructure.

Gladstone Commercial Corp., McLean, Va., has hired Gladstone Securities LLC to be its non-exclusive agent to assist in arranging mortgage financing for its properties.

Home prices in Texas have recovered from the housing downturn as they are now 7% above the pre-recession peak recorded in the fourth quarter of 2007.

For the most part, qualified mortgage/Ability-to-Repay guidelines should provide a level of compliance certainty. But are they still too severe?

The amendment provides certain exceptions to this Dodd-Frank requirement that loan originator compensation be included in the total permissible points and fees for both Qualified Mortgages and high-cost loans.

Homeowners are “under paper” and unable to close on a home sale or refi transaction because a mortgage satisfaction has never been recorded in the public records.

A Mortgage Grapevine post is titled “Brokers are going to rule once again!,” where a poster says that with mini-correspondent and jumbo lending programs, the Wall St. conduits will need loans.

Stock prices rise as investors regain confidence over the Federal Reserve bond buying program ending.

A report from Fannie Mae said while the nation’s economy may be growing, it hasn’t reached its full potential yet due to fiscal headwinds.

Griggs will provide customers of the Fargo, N.D.-based financial institution with tools and information to be able to navigate the ever-changing mortgage landscape.

The median price paid for a home in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area in May was $519,000, up 1.8% from $510,000 in April and up 29.8% from $400,000 in May 2012.

Standard and Poor’s finds some legislative and other uncertainties in the municipal housing sector, but the company expects ratings in it to remain fairly stable through at least the next 12 months.

A trio of real estate investment trusts have separately entered into different kinds of debt transactions, and Wells Fargo is providing the financing in two of them.

Thinking about my own father and about my role as a father to my three children.

Ask any of us in real estate-related businesses to describe the perfect closing experience and you’ll likely get minor variations on this theme.