Mortgages

The Federal Housing Administration should look to private mortgage insurance companies as a model for how to standardize the claim review process.

Clara, a new online mortgage lender, has launched with $27 million in equity financing.

The president and founder of a now-defunct Massachusetts-based mortgage company was charged with defrauding Ginnie Mae to the tune of $3 million.

The first commercial mortgage-backed security to comply with "skin in the game" requirements was extremely well received. Market participants credit the way the large banks sponsoring the deal retained the risk – a strategy unavailable to nonbank lenders.

It's time to move past the fear that digital mortgages will make loan officers obsolete.

The U.K. government will redeem 3 billion pounds ($3.9 billion) of bonds backed by mortgages from rescued lender Bradford & Bingley, paving the way for a potential sale of the loans.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Aug. 19.

The share of homeowners who owe more than their house is worth remains above 10% nationwide, according to data from Zillow's second quarter Negative Equity Report.

Mortgage rates edged downward this week as the market anticipated Wednesday's release of the minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee's July meeting, Freddie Mac reported.

A monthly gain in refinance activity coupled with a decrease in rates last month, according to data from Ellie Mae. However, loan turnaround times as a whole remained static.

United Bankshares in Charleston, W.Va., has agreed to buy Cardinal Financial in Tysons Corner, Va.

To money managers at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc., the laggards of the debt universe look pretty good right now.

The hole at the corner of 15th and L streets, in downtown Washington, is deep – and getting deeper.

Macy's decision to shutter another 100 of its department stores could impair some $3.64 billion of securitized commercial mortgages, according to Morningstar Credit Ratings.

A federal appeals court said an older version of a Nevada law that stripped lenders of their first deed of trust when a homeowners' association forecloses on a property is unconstitutional.

The impressive loan growth in the second quarter is surprising in an economy that grew by 1.2% in the second quarter and by only 0.8% in the first quarter.

Ditech Financial will lay off nearly 80 employees in Georgia as it closes an office in the Atlanta metropolitan area.

A former Deutsche Bank trader agreed to settle a U.S. regulator's allegations that he mis-marked loans tied to commercial-mortgage-backed securities to boost his profits.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's choice for its new head of supervision and enforcement — the No. 3 slot at the agency — is raising eyebrows because of his political background and relative inexperience compared with similar positions at other regulators.

Online lender LoanDepot has raised $150 million in term debt financing as part of its capital strategy.