Mortgages

Purchases of new single-family homes rose in June to the highest level in more than eight years, indicating a firm and resilient housing market.

EverBank Financial in Jacksonville, Fla., confirmed that it is in talks to sell itself.

Despite fears that increased compliance costs from new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rules could drive community lenders out of the mortgage business, a watchdog report found that smaller companies remain active.

Mountain states are leading the way as home prices edge closer to their 2006 peak, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

Democrats will adopt a party platform this week that omits most references to a need for continued post-housing crisis reforms, and instead focuses on expanding access to mortgage credit and support for industry regulation.

Regulators sought to limit improper contact between lenders and appraisers, but policies of the two mortgage giants encourage the kind of practices that contributed to the housing crisis.

First South Bank has purchased a mortgage servicing rights portfolio of 452 Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae loans.

Federal regulators warned mortgage servicers Monday that they will still expect them to offer loan modifications to distressed homeowners even after the Home Affordable Modification Program expires at yearend.

Waterstone Financial reported a 71% year-over-year jump in net income during the second quarter thanks to growth in its mortgage banking division.

Technology developed by SmartZip analyzes 2,000 variables about a housing market and its homeowners to help real estate agents and lenders identify consumers most likely to sell their house or need a new mortgage.

Welcome news for America's renters could be unhelpful for the Federal Reserve.

Multifamily family construction is reaching the point where some markets can't absorb the new supply of units.

Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase have found a home for the another portion of a $558 million mortgage on a San Francisco shopping mall that serves as collateral for a single-asset CMBS launched this week.

Borrowing conditions in the apartment market have improved in the second quarter as property owners benefit from the low-rate environment after the Brexit vote, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council.

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators Friday issued proposals outlining methodologies for establishing how thresholds for certain exemptions to Truth in Lending Requirements would be set.

Guaranteed Rate has begun offering 1% down payment mortgages through a new nationwide program.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending July 22.

Loan officers encounter a wide range of obstacles in the process of seeing a mortgage loan through to closing, but how many can spin silence into livestock?

The official platform of the Republican Party has softened language calling for the end of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, while continuing to demand reform of the government-sponsored enterprises.

D.R. Horton Inc., the largest U.S. homebuilder, reported an increase in fiscal third-quarter earnings as a limited number of existing properties on the market helped fuel demand for new houses.