Originations

The Center for American Progress appointed former Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., as senior fellow for economic policy.

Triad said a Chapter 11 filing will provide it with the opportunity to pursue strategic alternatives to liquidating the company.

Stonegate Mortgage Corp. is launching a fixed-rate jumbo loan product line through its retail offices and more than 700 approved third-party originators in 32 states.

The biggest year-over-year home price increase occurred in six years as values rose 12.1% nationwide in April.

In this day and age of increased government enforcement of mortgage company marketing practices, as well as the risk of civil litigation, having an accurate portrayal of what was on your website at any given time can be difference between winning and losing a legal case.

We are now in what apparently appears to be our first sustained significant increase in rates in quite a while.

Of the 17 Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks, nine were down for the day and eight were up.

In the first-ever Homes.com Rebound Report, the top 100 real estate market which has made the greatest recovery from the bust as of March is San Antonio.

Fairholme Capital Management owns $2.4 billion in preferred stock of the two government-sponsored enterprises.

Wells Fargo chief financial officer Tim Sloan said he doesn’t foresee a new housing bubble even as home prices rise at more than 10% annually.

A Connecticut real estate attorney and licensed mortgage broker was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a Fairfield County mortgage fraud scheme.

Resolutions that had been contributing to lower late-pays previously dropped sharply during the month.

Mortgage Grapevine poster Dambra1 apparently has not read the compliance blog posted each week on OriginationNews.com from attorney Herman Thordsen.

Mortgage modifications led to more than $1 billion of unexpected retroactive losses across 170 U.S. residential mortgage-backed securities, which are credit negative for these deals.

We're hearing lenders are under increasing pressure to make sure nonpublic, personal information about their customers does not find its way into the public realm.

Zais Financial Corp. has closed on a $150 million committed financing facility which it will use to purchase whole residential loans.

Fitch Ratings said the nation’s title insurance underwriters strongly capitalized as of the end of 2012.

Industry-driven solutions based on some of the most pressing issues facing real estate valuation today are crucial to the mortgage marketplace today as it adopts to the post-crisis reality.

One loan driver is anecdotal evidence shared by a number of credit unions that are booking mortgages with low loan-to-value and short duration.

The next few months will see significant changes in the mortgage loan market and those changes will impact the credit unions that write those loans.