Mortgages

Historically, mortgage delinquencies in the month of April have risen 85% of the time, but April 2018 bucked that trend as they fell, according to Black Knight.

Home prices rose again in April for most of the Sacramento region's neighborhoods.

MountainView is brokering a $3.6 billion nonrecourse package of Fannie Mae mortgage servicing rights with a high refinance loan concentration.

The heart of the nation's tech sector, the astronomically expensive Santa Clara County, Calif., leads the state in residents looking to move out of town, a new report found.

Freedom Mortgage is being punished by a government-owned mortgage guarantor amid concerns that the Mount Laurel, N.J.-based company is helping to enable unnecessary refinances of veterans' loans.

Commercial mortgage bonds are getting stuffed with the lowest-quality loans since the financial crisis by one measure, according to Moody's Investors Service.

While all cities show signs of healthy mortgage competition nationwide, some areas have higher concentrations of lender activity but also face varying degrees of competitiveness based on loan type, according to LendingTree.

Movement Mortgage is laying off 100 employees nationwide as the lender founded by a former Carolina Panthers player braces for an industry slowdown.

Seasonal hiring gave employment among nonbank mortgage lenders and brokers a boost in April and partially reversed an earlier decline despite growing signs of consolidation in the industry.

Overcapacity in the mortgage industry led to more competitive pricing in the first quarter, said Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan.

Two South Korean financial firms have bought $100 million of debt on a New Jersey residential building that's part-owned by the family of Jared Kushner.

Once again there were too many buyers and too few available homes in Tampa Bay and a few other parts of Florida in April.

Gov. John Bel Edwards vetoed legislation that would have asserted state authority over local zoning efforts aimed at creating affordable housing in gentrifying neighborhoods.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending June 1.

Remax Holdings is focused on "what it does best" with its Motto Mortgage business and in facing off against Zillow's new home buying and selling initiative, a company executive said.

Citizens Bank's $511 million acquisition of Franklin American Mortgage will beef up the bank's servicing portfolio and diversify its origination business at a time when higher interest rates have put a damper on refinance volume.

The value of commercial-property deals rose 6.7% in the first quarter from a year earlier, but higher interest rates and softer demand will weigh on the market, Ten-X Commercial said.

Promontory MortgagePath fills management roles for bank relations, technology and outsourced services opportunities.

Former boxing champion Vinny Paz apparently won a reprieve on the auctioning of his Warwick house.

There are almost 7 million coastal homes facing more than $1.6 trillion in potential storm-surge reconstruction expenses this year, representing a 6.6% cost increase from last year's hurricane season.