Mortgages

Nondepository mortgage companies cut 1,500 full-time employees from their payrolls in January, ending 10 consecutive months of job growth.

Republicans repeatedly claim that the Dodd-Frank Act has hurt consumers by raising costs and hampering credit availability. But the data doesn't back that up.

The number of underwater properties nationwide decreased once again in the fourth quarter, CoreLogic reported.

Freddie Mac is considering backing loans that finance single-family rental homes for the first time, mirroring a controversial transaction that Fannie Mae disclosed in January.

Attracting millennials and preparing for the rising rate environment are issues on the minds of mortgage executives where staffing is concerned.

First Financial Network is marketing $80 million in performing and nonperforming residential mortgage loans on behalf of the National Credit Union Administration.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending March 10.

In a setback for Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, an appeals court reversed a ruling against a Broward County mortgage company accused of defrauding hundreds of homeowners at the height of the housing crisis.

Two Memphis agencies heavily reliant on Department of Housing and Urban Development funding could face deep, far-reaching cuts if the Trump administration slices $6 billion from HUD's budget.

North Texas home sales were 5% higher in February, with the most houses sold ever in the second month of any year.

The 2017 countdown of the National Mortgage News Top Producers list continues by featuring the loan officers ranked 201-250.

The debt is costing taxpayers $4 billion a year, but rather than forgive it Republicans remain focused on creating a private flood insurance market.

Mortgage credit availability went up yet again in February amidst an expansion in access to government loans.

Freddie Mac is preparing a transaction that transfers credit risk on $640 million of super-conforming residential mortgages.

Mill City Holdings is returning to market with its fourth securitization of reperforming residential mortgages, this time with a sliver of home equity lines of credit added to the mix of collateral.

Most millennials who don't own a home plan to buy one in the next five years, but many of those would-be buyers may not be saving enough for their purchase.

More consumers are looking to buy a home than ever before. And while new home sales are indeed picking up — data from the U.S. Census Bureau showed January's new home sales rate was 5.6% higher than a year earlier — new home construction still remains well below its pre-recession peak.

The median sales price for a single-family house on Oahu climbed in February to the second-highest level ever at $755,000.

The Houston-area housing market saw gains for the fifth consecutive month in February as buyers closed on 4,933 single-family homes.

Mortgage interest rates increased 11 basis points over the previous week, reaching their highest level so far in 2017, according to Freddie Mac.