Mortgages

Metro Denver's housing market looked like it had regained its footing in October after stumbling in September. But last month, home sales hit another icy patch, according to the Denver Metro Association of Realtors.

After more than three years of a strong seller's market, Staten Island's residential real estate is now favoring homebuyers, Realtors say.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Dec. 7.

Merchants has agreed to buy NattyMac, a company it has been in business with since 2014.

From flocking to Florida to abandoning Alaska, here’s a look at some key 2018 homebuyer migration patterns.

House flipping fell for the third consecutive quarter, following a pattern seen the last time mortgage rates spiked, according to Attom Data Solutions.

The CFPB ordered Village Capital & Investment in Henderson, Nev., to issue refunds and pay a penalty for allegedly misrepresenting the cost savings in a refi product.

The gap between supply and demand in the housing market is contributing to affordability constraints that are likely to limit homeownership long-term, according to Freddie Mac.

Mortgage rates dropped this past week as investors pulled money from the stock market over global trade worries and instead purchased bonds, according to Freddie Mac.

Mortgage credit available to consumers increased in November by 1.1% from the previous month as lenders offered more conventional products with expanded underwriting criteria, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

As home value appreciation slowed, gains in home equity for the third quarter fell to the lowest level in two years, according to CoreLogic's homeowner equity report.

Southern California's housing market weathered the slowest October in seven years, prompting a debate over where the market is headed.

The Colorado Springs single-family housing market is still going strong — just not quite as strong as last year.

Home prices are rising and first-time buyers now account for an increasing share of sales, factors that could lead to a surge in defaults during the next economic downturn.

Wire fraud is considered a consumer and title agent issue, but the millions of dollars it's diverting from home purchase transactions make it an issue mortgage lenders need to address, too.

Foreclosure activity is down nationwide from a year ago, but certain local housing markets are telling a different story.

The government-sponsored enterprises sold fewer nonperforming loans in the first half, but the drop-off in the number of sales year-to-year is less severe than it was in 2017 as a whole.

Reps. Lacy Clay and Emanuel Cleaver, both from Missouri, have shown interest in running the panel that could be a focal point in efforts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Growing home prices and climbing interest rates didn't stop millennials from buying houses in October, Ellie Mae said.

For the first time, Remax Holdings has sold a Motto Mortgage franchise to a real estate brokerage affiliated with a competing franchisor.