Mortgages

Home prices rose 5.9% in April from a year earlier as job growth spurred competition for a limited number of listings.

The number of loan modification made in April dropped 4% from the previous month, according to the Hope Now alliance.

Brokers remain perplexed over how to strike a balance between helping borrowers shop for the best deal and maintaining compliance with the TILA-RESPA integrated disclosures. Specifically, how do brokers and wholesalers meet TRID's delivery deadline and accuracy requirements when a loan is resubmitted to a new lender?

Title agents reported an average increase in closing costs of $184 per transaction during the second quarter, according to a report from First American Financial Corp.

PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust is now offering sellers the option to have the company underwrite the whole loans it purchases.

The Federal Reserve warned that prices in the commercial real estate market may have run up too far too fast.

Bank of America's newest service allows consumers to track their loan status online.

Home Equity Conversion Mortgages can be a valuable retirement tool to older borrowers who qualify for the product, and lenders who shy from offering them are doing their clients a costly disservice.

Lennar Corp., the second-largest U.S. homebuilder, reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that beat analysts' estimates as the improving job market helped boost sales.

The decline in homeownership can be stopped, and even reversed, by taking action on credit access, better evangelizing for down payment programs and offering borrower counseling.

The current upcycle the housing market is in should continue for at least two more years, according to Fitch Ratings.

Commercial real estate prices may fall as much as 5% in the next 12 months amid tightened regulations, a wall of debt maturities and property sales by publicly traded landlords, Pacific Investment Management Co. said in a report Monday.

The mark of an excellent salesperson is the ability to progress even in challenging markets. Here's a look at the loan officers featured in the Top Producers Rankings who logged increases of more than 75% of their previous year's dollar volume of mortgage originations.

After four years of crammed open houses, heated competition and dizzying price gains that sent the median cost of a home to $1.2 million, San Francisco's real estate market is starting to lose steam.

Fannie Mae has released the details of its next sale of nonperforming loans, including the fourth "community impact" pool the government-sponsored enterprise has offered.

Optimal Blue will be acquired by private equity firm GTCR in a deal that makes Mortgagebot founder and tech veteran Scott Happ CEO of the Texas-based product and pricing engine software vendor.

U.S. prosecutors have abandoned their case against Angelo Mozilo, a pioneer of the risky subprime mortgages that fueled the financial crisis, after a two-year quest to bring a civil suit against him.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending June 17.

The market for existing-home sales is underperforming its potential by 2.8%, according to First American Financial Corp.'s Potential Home Sales model for May.

New-home construction was little changed in May, a sign the residential real estate industry will add little to economic growth in the second quarter.