Originations

PrimeLending this week hired industry veteran Eric Declercq as senior vice president and regional manager for the New York metro area.

Community banks might scale back their role in residential mortgages if changes are not made to Basel III.

Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan explains why 2012 is the "Year of the Political Economy."

Optimum reveals all the secrets behind a marketing campaign.

Lender seeks to ease minds of buyers worried about declining home vales.

Platinum Data and SharperLending have entered into a technology alliance providing access to certain product on the collateral valuation side of the transaction.

Eight people involved in a nearly a two-year mortgage fraud scheme that caused losses of over $30 million were charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and money laundering.

Fitch Ratings says a sign for a potential commercial real estate rebound is that fewer troubled conduit loans are now in special servicing.

Home equity loan installment balances rose 0.3% in August, representing the first increase since November 2007.

Who knows more about housing and mortgages? Obama or Romney?

Moody's tells Genworth Financial that it should sell its troubled U.S. mortgage insurance division.

Every one should have a specialty in the mortgage origination business and here are some to consider looking into.

A study by Insidesales.com finds the quicker the loan officer calls the customer back, the more likely they will do business.

Thanks to more GSE G-fee hikes, in time we may see more firms play in the jumbo MBS space. But don't hold your breath.

The private mortgage insurance industry continues to gain strength in new policies written with reporting firms saying they wrote $11.3 billion of coverage in August.

Regulators are starting to see the effects of a $25 billion national mortgage servicing settlement with an increase in new loan modification trial-period plans.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's expanded the definition of origination could have a profound impact on nonproducing branch managers.

Flagstar Bancorp, a top ten ranked player in residential finance, is going the reverse stock split route.

At national banks the percentage of mortgages that were current or performing was 88.7% at the end of the quarter, compared with 88.1% a year earlier.

Grand Bank has agreed to sell its wholesale mortgage banking division, ICON Residential.