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Daniel Mudd ended a five-year fight with the U.S. government Monday after the former head of Fannie Mae agreed to pay $100,000 to settle allegations that he misled investors about the mortgage backer’s exposure to subprime loans during the run-up to the financial crisis.

Reynolds and Reynolds subsidiary International Document Services has added a fulfillment dashboard to its idsDoc mortgage document preparation system.

First Community Mortgage is taking somewhat of an unusual approach with its latest branding campaign.

The market for existing home sales moved closer to its full potential in July, according to First American Financial Corp.

Nationwide, new home construction isn't keeping up with rising prices and demand. But in certain areas of the Southwest and Southeast, builders are bucking this trend, creating housing supply that is more flexible to market fluctuations.

Donald Trump had heard all the chatter, the idle talk about how the U.S. housing market was overheating and trouble was looming. He was unfazed. It was the spring of 2006 and he was pushing a new mortgage business, Trump Mortgage LLC.

The Federal Housing Administration should look to private mortgage insurance companies as a model for how to standardize the claim review process.

Clara, a new online mortgage lender, has launched with $27 million in equity financing.

The first commercial mortgage-backed security to comply with "skin in the game" requirements was extremely well received. Market participants credit the way the large banks sponsoring the deal retained the risk – a strategy unavailable to nonbank lenders.

It's time to move past the fear that digital mortgages will make loan officers obsolete.