Originations

Approximately 57% of all commercial mortgage-backed securities reaching their balloon date in March paid off as scheduled.

For the past several days, fans of the Mortgage Grapevine were unable to get their fix of industry news, loan scenarios, politics, general gossip and other stuff as the board had to be taken out of service.

New cures outpaced new notices of default at Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. by 3,268 loans.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency has assigned preliminary ratings to a $260 million large loan commercial mortgage-backed securities deal secured by a Florida mall.

We're hearing about Section 184 loans, designed to promote homeownership for American Indian and Alaska Native families.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking an enforcement action against four private mortgage insurance companies for allegedly paying kickbacks to lenders for business referrals.

NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. has priced a preferred stock offering which will raise $175 million for the company.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. defeated most of a lawsuit brought by Dexia SA over about $1.6 billion in mortgage-backed securities it bought before the financial crisis.

The average rate for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage in Freddie Mac’s weekly survey dropped three basis points to 3.54% during the week ending April 4.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas has signed up for the Mortgage Partnership Finance Xtra program.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency has assigned preliminary ratings to UBS-BB 2013-C6, a $1.3 billion commercial mortgage-backed securities conduit transaction.

Mislabeling by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has exaggerated the number of consumer complaints the bureau received regarding mortgage brokers.

With the April 15 tax filing deadline less than two weeks away, Amy Tierce has a couple of things any self-employed person needs to be aware of.

California’s housing counselors find the nation’s largest banks already are failing to comply with the National Mortgage Settlement and the state’s Homeowners Bill of Rights.

Only two of the 17 stocks tracked by the Mortgage Industry Equity Composite index survived the investor selloff during Wednesday.

MBIA Insurance Corp. received a favorable ruling from the New York Appellate Court, First Department, against Bank of America Corp. and Countrywide Home Loans.

CoreLogic said in its monthly Home Price Index that home values escalated by 10.2% in February compared to a year ago.

We're hearing it’s time to figure out exactly how originators should get paid for consumer direct lending.

Ocwen Financial has completed its purchase of the reverse mortgage lender Liberty Home Equity Solutions from Genworth Financial.

The Obama administration wants to give Federal Housing Administration lenders more breathing room so they can feel confident about lending to a wide range of borrowers without being sued by the government.