Mortgages

Learn how the some of the industry's most successful loan originators get it done with these tricks of the trade from the 2017 Top Producers rankings' top 20 loan officers of the Northeast.

The JPMorgan Chase CEO was in rare form at the Milken Institute conference, speaking without a filter on a range of controversial topics.

In an echo of the rescue deals of 2007 and 2008, New Residential's CEO framed the transaction as something undertaken to benefit the entire industry.

No matter what form government-sponsored enterprise reform takes, Federal Housing Finance Agency officials are stressing that it should account for the fact that the GSEs' capital buffer will soon hit zero.

Mortgage Bankers Association President David Stevens is confident that housing finance reform will move forward under the Trump administration, but criticized calls to simply let the government-sponsored enterprises recapitalize and be returned to shareholders without additional reforms.

The landmark ruling remands the city of Miami's 2013 suit against Wells Fargo and Bank of America to the lower court.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a mixed decision on the reach of the main federal housing-discrimination law, telling a lower court to reconsider whether Miami can sue banks for lending practices the city said contributed to urban blight.

As a major force in the home buying economy, millennials are changing the game and Realtors are charged with keeping up.

A healthy economy and a shortage of housing inventory have helped drive single-family home sales for the month of March in Massachusetts to the highest it has been since before the recession a decade ago.

A group of fintech players and venture capital firms are investing $1 million in Patch Homes, a startup that lends money in return for a share of home equity.

Foreclosure activity continues to subside and most of the regulatory reforms created to protect distressed borrowers have been implemented. Yet mortgage servicers still haven't fully resolved the operational challenges facing their business.

Years after the worst of the housing crisis, states still dealing with high foreclosure activity are weighing laws to speed the process on vacant or abandoned properties.

President Trump has nominated Pam Patenaude, the president of the J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America's Families, to serve as HUD's No. 2.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending April 28.

National foreclosure activity is at an 11-year low, but some cities have yet to fully recover.

The Bay Area's housing supply may be low, but fierce competition among spring-season buyers continued to drive up home prices, which reached record highs in March in Santa Clara and Alameda counties.

Market rate developers would have to make 18% of rental units affordable to low- and moderate-income households under an ordinance the San Francisco Planning Commission approved.

Bayview Asset Management is marketing another $183 million of bonds backed by reperforming mortgages acquired last year from CitiFinancial Credit Co.

CoreLogic's first-quarter net income was down 54% from the prior year as lower mortgage origination volume reduced the need for some of its services.

The onslaught of regulatory actions against Ocwen may open the door for Nationstar to pick up a massive subservicing portfolio from the beleaguered servicer.