Mortgages

The company plans to increase investments in its proprietary products as well as marketing initiatives with expectations of originations growth next year.

Value adjustments to Guild's MSRs totaled a loss of $145.8 million, the nonbanks third quarter earnings show.

Yields on both 10-year and 2-year Treasurys moved significantly higher after the Trump election victory and that's bad news for mortgage rates going forward.

Trump's return to the White House is reviving the prospect of preferred stockholders getting some money back after the U.S. took control of the agencies during the 2008 financial crisis to keep the housing market from collapsing.

Refinance applications fell by almost 50% in the past four weeks, part of a greater slide since the last Federal Reserve interest rate cut.

Loandepot rolled out Project North Star, an initiative designed to position the company as "the leading lending partner of choice for homeowners."

Over the next decade, the housing market will have excess demand of 25 million units even as the baby boomer generation ages and dies, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

The incentive, meant to ramp up activity in Rocket's broker channel, is valid from Nov. 5 to Nov. 17.

Low supply and production volumes, though, have left values competitive, with two segments in particular holding promise for favorable returns, a new report said.

The company formerly known as Ocwen improved results on several fronts even though a secondary market price change reduced origination profits in one channel.

Even as home equity withdrawals hit a two-year high, utilization rate remained less than half of normal, ICE Mortgage Technology said.

The joint venture with Smith Douglas Homes will expand Loandepot's market presence in states including Georgia, Alabama and Texas.

Flueid, which provides verification of title services, has raised $8.3 million of new capital, with lead investor LiveOak Ventures along with Gilbert's Detroit Venture Partners.

The median age of a first-time buyer reached a record of 38 — about a decade older than in the 1980s.

The Chicago-area lender, which at first was able to get the suit quashed, agreed to end the discrimination case by paying a $105,000 fine.

Remax, the real estate brokerage and mortgage broker franchisor of Motto Mortgage, rebounded from a year ago loss in a tough news cycle for both its businesses.

Economists cautioned that October's employment report may not provide a fully accurate representation of the economy due to recent hurricanes.

HomeStreet and FirstSun are working to devise a new formula after the Texas Department of Banking and the Federal Reserve declined to approve their merger application.

The five most expensive ZIP codes in the U.S. have an average median home price of more than $6 million.

Consumers are meanwhile filing objections to the near $1 billion in settlements from the nation's largest brokerages ahead of a November court approval.