Underwriting

Lower rates led to an increase in both purchase and refinance applications compared with the previous week. according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Summer usually ushers in prime homebuying season in Southern Nevada, but that could change drastically in 2017.

The Federal Housing Administration's gateway to homeownership could be widened if the Trump administration takes actions to reduce mortgage insurance premiums and clarify lender penalties under the False Claims Act.

Defects and misrepresentations on mortgage applications rose for the fifth consecutive month in April, with increases for both purchase and refinance loans.

Guild Mortgage is reaching out to millennials who often have higher debt-to-income ratios and lack down payments with a grant that allows them to put just 1% down.

Mortgage rates inched lower for the third consecutive week and set a new low for the year, according to Freddie Mac.

Application volume decreased 3.4% from one week earlier, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

On New York's Roosevelt Island, a sliver of land across the East River from Manhattan, real estate broker Ben Garama is trying to set a record — and make a statement.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has revived the idea of putting a question on the loan application asking consumers what language they want to communicate in.

Home values increased by 7.3% in April, the strongest rate of year-over-year appreciation in more than 10 years, according to Zillow.

Mortgage rates hit their lowest mark of the year, as they were affected by the stock market sell-off on May 17, according to Freddie Mac.

HLP has received a $20,000 grant award from the CBC Mortgage Agency, a government housing agency owned by a Native American tribe.

Homeowners insurance agencies are embedding their policy-underwriting technology into mortgage companies' origination and servicing systems in a bid to chase the same customers together.

Fannie Mae will give below-market-rate financing to multifamily borrowers who incorporate healthy design features in their newly constructed or rehabilitated buildings.

Bank of the West is using alternative data and the international expertise of its parent company to tap into the lucrative but difficult to underwrite market of middle- and upper-class immigrant mortgage borrowers.

A larger-than-forecast decline in new-home purchases in April from the strongest pace in almost a decade indicates a pause in demand in the midst of the busy spring selling season.

April sales of existing homes fell almost 11% in Wisconsin, a drop-off industry professionals say is the result of a short supply of houses on the market.

Privately held nonbank Movement Mortgage plans to add to the operational resources it has based at a new Norfolk, Va., facility it is leasing from the city.

Down payment standards should be relaxed to just 10% to spur homebuying among millennials, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said this week.

JPMorgan Chase is marketing another offering of bonds backed by a mix of conforming and jumbo residential mortgages, according to Moody's Investors Service.