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The North Texas home market started the new year with another big jump in prices as median home sales prices rose 12% last month from a year ago.

Black and Hispanic Americans are twice as likely as white Americans to be denied a mortgage, according to a new report.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is raising concerns about the transparency and clarity of reverse mortgages based on more than a thousand complaints it received about the product.

Wilshire Bancorp in Los Angeles has agreed to buy Manhattan Bancorp's mortgage lending division.

When charging fees to borrowers with weaker credit histories, lenders should take great care to describe everything correctly and ensure such fees are not excessive.

It's a mortgage on top of a mortgage, and at least one lender is making these loans again through brokers.

The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority plans to sell $150 million of mortgage finance program bonds, starting with a retail order day on Monday.

The end of the refinance boom cost more nonbank mortgage lender jobs than originally estimated, though the revised figures make the subsequent hiring pickup appear more impressive.

Michigan builders are expecting an 8% increase this year in new home construction permits, good news for the industry but still far below pre-recession levels of activity.

As the New Jersey Supreme Court considers whether to intervene in the Christie administration's regulation of affordable housing, the case has brought into focus a debate over the need for such housing among low- and moderate-income residents.

After struggling for years to build a hotel plaza across from the new 49ers stadium, Joe Montana is teaming up with an experienced and wealthy developer that already has its sights set on Santa Clara.

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The Inland Empire is the key to the future of Southern California and the region's middle class, an economic and social commentator said.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Feb. 6.

New disclosure rules from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau don't go into effect until this summer, but lenders are already worried about compliance and fearing it may make the closing process far more difficult.

Lending standards loosened slightly in January, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

As New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio continues to ramp up his affordable housing plan, one of the main financial engines of the initiative has set out to match the challenge for a second year running.

One of the first housing-related items on the budget is continued support for industry regulation, in general, and the CFPB, in particular.

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RealtyTrac says that nearly 84% of all homes in Horry County, S.C., could qualify for one or more of seven down payment assistance programs that will help homebuyers in households with up to a $76,020 annual income to buy a home worth as much as $271,050.