Originations

Increased sales of lower-priced newly built homes was not enough to counter a decline in mortgage application volume for the segment in August, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Sept. 14.

New Penn Financial has launched a condo loan program that features more flexible property restrictions than what's allowed under Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guidelines.

Mortgage origination volume continues to decline as homebuyers receiving loans bring more money to the closing table.

Stearns Lending is buying large equity stakes in smaller mortgage banking companies as it looks to grow its retail loan production business.

Mortgage applications decreased 1.8% from one week earlier as refinance submissions fell to their lowest in nearly 18 years, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Sept. 7.

Mortgage applications decreased 0.1% from one week earlier, dropping for the seventh time in eight weeks even with scant movement in interest rates, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Aug. 31.

With spring homebuying in bloom, the second quarter brought profits to independent mortgage bankers after going negative for the second time ever, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

After their first increase in six weeks, mortgage applications declined despite lower interest rates, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Racial and ethnic discrimination in mortgage lending may be misrepresented by "flawed" denial metrics that suggest a larger gap between the denial rates of racial groups than what actually exists, according to the Urban Institute.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Aug. 24.

A deceleration in mortgage balances ends CIBC's three-year streak of outpacing Canada's other large lenders on mortgage growth. Royal Bank of Canada said this week that mortgage balances were 5.9% higher than a year earlier.

Mortgage applications increased 4.2% from one week earlier, rising for the first time in over a month, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Better consumer credit quality helped push the serious mortgage delinquency rate to its lowest level since the Great Recession, but originations remain low due to tighter underwriting standards and eroding homebuyer affordability, according to TransUnion.

Mortgages originated to finance apartments and other income-producing properties managed to generate an overall year-to-year increase in the first half, even though there are declines in some parts of the market.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development took the very rare step of filing a secretary-initiated fair housing complaint — only three were made in the last two fiscal years — against Facebook.