Mortgages

New home purchase mortgage application volume increased month-over-month in February, as mild weather and low rates encouraged a busy start to the spring buying season, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

Home-price appreciation is a welcome development for households whose nest eggs were shattered by the residential real estate bust that began a decade ago.

PHH, which lost $145 million in 2015, has hired Credit Suisse and JPMorgan to help it review all of its options, including capital allocation, to maximize shareholder value.

Cities may be the top choice for millennials who rent apartments, but young homebuyers are moving in droves to the suburbs, where prices are lower and backyards are plentiful.

HomePlus Mortgage and Springleaf Financial Services were rated by LendingTree customers as the top lenders in their respective categories on the lead generation website's fourth-quarter survey.

Losses on commercial mortgages declined in February, with a Florida shopping center topping the list of the largest losses, according to Trepp.

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Zais Financial may shut down its business and liquidate its holdings if it can't a buyer or a merger partner.

Radian Group named an interim president for its Clayton Holdings unit after its previous president was terminated.

Mortgage applications ticked up slightly last week, as low refinance activity continued to offset gains in new purchase applications, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

First mortgage originations climbed in February as home equity loans declined, according to Equifax.

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Changes to mortgage disclosure rules implemented in October continue to frustrate community bankers and is just another example of the struggle to stay independent.

Genworth Mortgage Insurance Corp. plans to change its pricing structure for borrower-paid policies.

The national foreclosure inventory decreased 21.7% to about 456,000 in January, according to CoreLogic.

Servicers are taking a much-needed hard look at the full range of customer touch-points that they operate, and NMN's 10th annual Mortgage Servicing Conference promises to offer an engaging agenda of hottest trends and topics.

U.S. commercial real estate prices dropped in January for the first time since 2010, a sign of weakening demand by investors after a six-year rally that pushed values to records.

The former Freddie Mac chief executive who joined the board of PHH Corp. during a 2009 proxy fight will resign as a director later this year.

We're counting down the list of this year's 300 Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the next segment of the list!

Citigroup executives involved in the issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities at the center of the 2008 financial crisis will not be facing criminal charges for selling toxic bonds, U.S. authorities have determined.