Originations

A New Jersey investor has pledged $8million to develop a prominent site in Harlem.

The stock market pulled back on Friday and the turn was felt in the Mortgage Industry Equity Composite.

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Lance Capital has closed a 20-year transaction regarding The BankNote Building in the Bronx.

Canadian existing home sales fell in February from the previous month on drops in Vancouver and Toronto.

Mortgage Grapevine regular Sfranny lives near a property which has been vacant for 19 months.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau appears to be moving towards finalizing a restrictive points and fees cap under the qualified mortgage rule.

A distressed $410 million loan on One & Two Prudential Plaza is facing an appraisal-related downgrade that implies additional losses.

A joint survey conducted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Census Bureau found that approximately 20% of American households live in multifamily rental buildings.

Redfin said Phoenix had 540 of what it has defined as flash sales, a home going into contract 24 hours or less after listing.

California new and existing home and condominium sales in February declined 0.5% from January and fell 3.1% when compared with February 2012.

Fannie Mae priced its third multifamily DUS REMIC for 2013, a $904.3 million deal that is the first of its kind to include 10-year pools with seven years of yield maintenance.

Rates and eligibility information for Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp.’s private mortgage insurance products are now available via LoanSifter.

New loan officer compensation laws that exclude payments to originators of 10 or fewer loans over a 12 month period are causing some confusion.

Paul Tomko has chutzpah for committing mortgage fraud while working as an FBI informant.

Housing experts are warning legislators about the unintended consequences of a narrow qualified residential mortgage definition.

Once the refinancing binge is over, Federal Reserve Board officials are hoping lenders will make credit more available to first-time homebuyers.

Re/Max is seeing encouraging signs in its February sales data, including more move-up buyers entering the market.

RE_LoanDR posted on the Mortgage Grapevine looking to place a high loan-to-value ratio borrower with 625 credit score loan to be secured by a newly constructed home.

Small mortgage bankers should not think their organizations are not of interest to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because of their size.