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RealtyUSA has merged with Pittsburgh-based Howard Hanna Real Estate Services.

Alterra Home Loans in Las Vegas has secured an expansion capital and equity investment commitment from private equity partnership Panorama Point Partners.

Mortgage applications for new home purchases dropped slightly in June, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Rates for the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage held steady this week, remaining near their all-time record low, according to Freddie Mac.

JPMorgan Chase reported a 5% increase year-over-year in its second-quarter mortgage banking revenue even though its loan origination volume fell by 15%.

In a move to reduce the strain on its small staff and improve service, a credit union in Wyoming now lets its members pay their mortgages and other loans simply by sending a text message.

United Wholesale Mortgage has begun offering a conventional 1% down payment program to mortgage brokers.

The debate over a Republican bill to overhaul the Dodd-Frank Act is increasingly focused on two widely different philosophies about capital regulation, which were both on display at a hearing Tuesday.

At the end of 2015, there were at least 48 bills pending before Congress that sought to change, defund, or otherwise weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. None of them passed.

Now that privately insured credit unions finally can join the Federal Home Loan Bank System, will more federally insured state charters consider converting to private insurance?

Mortgage applications increased 7.2% from one week earlier as the lowest rates in three years have brought consumers in to refinance, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

LoanScoreCard has rolled out a new nonagency pricing and decisioning technology for the wholesale and correspondent channels.

Wells Fargo is marketing its second commercial mortgage securitization in two months, this time with a focus on smaller-market retail, hotel and office properties.

Nonbanks continue to expand their share of lending volumes as depositories keep scaling back their business in the residential mortgage space.

Walter Investment Management Corp. subsidiary Ditech Financial has relaunched a wholesale lending channel.

While many depositories do just enough mortgage lending to low- to moderate-income borrowers to meet statutory requirements, The Federal Savings Bank has made it a backbone for growth.

Citigroup's next commercial mortgage securitization has heavy exposure to split loans that serve as collateral for a number of other transactions.

The management team at Bank of the Ozarks knows it has a dependency on commercial real estate. But they assert that sound underwriting, and efforts to diversify, are what really matters when assessing risk.

Mortgage credit availability dropped for the fourth consecutive month in June, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported.

Although the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau doesn't mandate doing so, lenders' best chance to stay compliant with future data initiatives and regulatory changes is to implement standards set by the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization.