Mortgages

A Jacksonville, Fla., family won't lose its house because of a foreclosure auction held the day Hurricane Irma blasted through town.

As a year of record-breaking home-price increases continues across the Seattle area, millennials and other first-time buyers are coming to grips with the reality that they simply can't save up quickly enough to match the rise in home costs.

Lenders could be responsible for water quality issues affecting borrowers and properties if the Federal Housing Administration follows through with its response to an inspector general's report.

Nondepository mortgage bankers and brokers increased their headcounts in August, but hurricane recovery efforts and other macro factors may stymie additional growth.

Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities issuers can aggregate their portfolio's exposure to areas hit by the three recent hurricanes to qualify for its disaster relief program.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Oct. 6.

The program to purchase and support affordable mortgages for New Yorkers will include an RBC unit and provisions for military veterans.

Select Portfolio Servicing grew its mortgage servicing rights portfolio by over 14% in the second quarter by targeting opportunities in the nonagency loan market.

Here's a look at 12 cities where the median home sales price is below $215,000, but the combination of housing costs, local wages and other market forces is making home purchasing power disappear in these once-cheapest places to live.

Home affordability improved in most markets in the third quarter compared to the previous, but was still worse off from a year ago, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Mortgage rates ticked up to their highest mark in six weeks, reflecting the 20-basis-point rise in the 10-year Treasury yield during September, according to Freddie Mac.

Home sales in Santa Fe, N.M., are on track for a breakthrough, trending toward only the third double-digit sales increase since 2001.

The Louisiana company also set aside funds to cover efforts to settle litigation tied to its mortgage business.

In the San Fernando Valley, outside Los Angeles, there are plans to level a nearly vacant mall and replace it with some 1,400 homes, boutique retail shops and a concert venue.

Incenter Mortgage Advisors is brokering on behalf of an unnamed mortgage banker an almost $10 billion mortgage servicing rights package that includes $870 million in loans with hurricane exposure.

At 1.56%, the delinquency rate on consumer loans remains well below historic averages, the American Bankers Association said Thursday.

A bankruptcy judge who spent 107 pages excoriating Bank of America Corp. over its "heartless" foreclosure on a California couple is not happy that the homeowners want him to erase his words.

Building off the success of policy changes in 2016, there are now even more ways for mortgage lenders to help student loan borrowers become homeowners.

Arlando Jacobs and Clarence Roland stole homes across Texas and two other states with the scribble of a pen, the FBI says.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Wednesday that it would give mortgage servicers more time to notify distressed borrowers who have asked not to be contacted about the collection of their debts.