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Navy Federal Credit Union closed over $1 billion worth of mortgages in March, and $2.5 billion year-to-date.

The shift in market composition is fueling concerns that if defaults rise, the Federal Housing Administration would have a harder time making lenders eat the losses on poorly underwritten loans.

Freddie Mac's next STACR offering will offer investors exposure to actual losses on residential mortgages, something the mortgage giant says investors have been asking for.

Clayton Homes, the manufactured-housing business owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., uses aggressive sales and lending practices that traps some borrowers in homes that are difficult to resell, the Seattle Times reported.

ReverseVision has created an operations team within its company to improve its capacity management about a month after its RV Express system's last reported outage.

Managers need to position their team of loan originators to capitalize on getting the business that's out there right now.

The mortgage and title industries are creating training programs to teach those in the home sales process this is not just a swapping out of two forms for new ones.

John W. Allison is always on the hunt for non-dilutive deals that will boost his Arkansas company's earnings. That has largely led to deals for Florida banks, but Home just agreed to buy nearly $300 million in nationwide commercial real estate credits and recruited a team to open a loan production office in New York.

The red pens have come out as members of the real estate industry start to critique the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new mortgage shopping toolkit less than a day after its release.

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The chance to earn higher compensation and the ability to offer more mortgage products is causing a growing number of loan officers to go out on their own.

All areas identified by the CFPB in its supervisory report have particular relevance to the mortgage industry, and lenders should review their compliance with the large-scale subject matter areas that the CFPB is committed to enforcing.

Solar panels are popping up on houses everywhere. How do they impact mortgage financing?

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending April 3.

Mortgage rates largely stayed put amidst mixed housing data as the March jobs report looms.

Home prices notched up slightly in January as housing markets in certain parts of the country continued to see impressive gains, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

Pretax profits fell by 28.4 basis points in the fourth quarter for independent mortgage bankers due to rising operating expenses, according to accounting firm Richey May's quarterly trend report.

Compliance software provider QuestSoft found that nearly one in five lenders is considering switching their loan origination systems this year.

Wells Fargo's quality-control procedures will play a key role in a closely watched mortgage-fraud case that could go to trial this summer. Federal prosecutors are using the bank's internal reports to allege its executives knew about deficient loans.

FirstKey Lending is securitizing $241 million of fixed-rate loans it made to landlords for the purchase of buy-to-rent, single-family homes, according to a presale from Kroll Bond Ratings Agency.