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Chicago's Federal Home Loan Bank has given Forward Community Investments, a Wisconsin nonprofit, a loan to support the organization's community development endeavors.

Approximately two-thirds of foreign homebuyers during 2014 paid cash for their property.

Zillow Inc.'s quarterly revenue topped estimates and the online real estate marketplace said it anticipates its acquisition of Trulia Inc. will close as early as Tuesday.

One of the culprits in the building and bursting of the nation's housing bubble, the low-down-payment mortgage, is back in favor and readily available at a lender near you.

The Metro Orlando housing market experienced its seasonal cooling-down period in January, with prices and sales down from the previous month.

Leading economic indicators are favorable for a continued improvement in both the economy as a whole and the housing industry, and many midtier lenders will find their companies operating at a disadvantage when compared to larger firms that are approved to sell their production directly to the industry's largest investors.

Users of Ellie Mae's self-hosted loan origination system will soon have to make a choice: migrate to the software-as-a-service version of Encompass or switch technology providers altogether.

Confidence among homebuilders decreased in February to the lowest level in four months as winter weather prevented some prospective buyers from touring new developments.

With less than three weeks to go before new financial assessments for reverse mortgages became mandatory, the Federal Housing Administration announced Thursday that it will delay their effective date due to technical issues.

Essent Group closed out its first full year as a public company in the black, as increased premiums continued to fuel profitability.

Just three years ago, CEO David Nelms heralded the purchase of LendingTree Loans as a milestone in Discover's evolution from a strict credit-card company to a broad-based consumer lender. Now he is hinting that it might exit the mortgage business.

Lenders are seeing higher demand for homes but are expecting only modest growth in sales this year due to the limited housing stock.

For over a third of millennials, first comes home then comes marriage, according to a recent study.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Feb. 13.

Not as many pricey homes sold on Maui last month, which dinged the statistics for median prices in a report by the Realtors Association of Maui.

The number of new Orlando-area homes priced at $150,000 or less shrank to just 282 during the fourth quarter.

Buying a home in California became slightly more within reach in the last quarter of 2014 compared with the quarter prior, but affordability fell overall year-to-year.

Ellie Mae reported fourth-quarter earnings of $4.3 million, more than double that of the same period in 2013.

Emphasizing the good factors of TILA-RESPA is an important part of ensuring the project team is sending the right message throughout the company.

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