Mortgages

B2R Holdings, the parent company of B2R Finance, which lends to landlords, has rebranded as Lending.com.

Resitrader has introduced an online marketplace for the exchange of loan data, documents and pricing information.

Single-family home market values nationwide are expected to rise 3.6% in the coming year, according to Veros Real Estate Solutions, which said this is one of the best forecasts in almost two years.

The issuance of U.S. prime jumbo residential mortgage-backed securities has already surpassed the 2014 total, according to Fitch Ratings.

Roostify has closed a Series A investment round led by Texas-based financial services company USAA, the San Francisco-based automated mortgage transaction platform company announced Thursday.

MGIC Investment Corp. had third-quarter net earnings of $823 million, largely driven by a $698 million reversal of its deferred tax asset valuation allowance.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau backed off some of its initial plans in its final rule requiring lenders to collect more data from mortgage borrowers, but industry representatives warned the agency had not gone far enough.

Average fixed mortgage rates perked up the week ending Oct. 15, but remained under the 4% level for the 12th consecutive week.

PNC Mortgage's chief executive and president Joseph C. Guyaux will retire in the spring of 2016, the Pittsburgh-based company announced Thursday. He will be replaced by treasurer and chief investment officer E. William Parsley III.

WASHINGTON — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule Thursday that requires lenders to collect more information from borrowers as part of mortgage disclosures.

Ditech Financial, a nonbank lender in Fort Washington, Pa., is the latest lender to bring back the piggyback mortgage by offering a closed-end home equity loan product.

A majority of consumers still think it’s a good financial decision to buy a home and most think they could sell their home for at least its initial purchase price, according to the National Association of Realtors.

The risk for mortgage fraud fell 8.9% at the end of the second quarter compared with a year earlier, according to CoreLogic.

The number of properties in foreclosure nationwide rose in the third quarter as the logjam in some judicial states has loosened, according to RealtyTrac.

Executives in the mortgage industry must "take a page from the real estate community" and be more active in Washington and their state capitals, said outgoing Mortgage Bankers Association Chairman Bill Cosgrove.

SunTrust Banks in Atlanta has promoted an executive to oversee its consumer banking and wealth management operations

Ellie Mae has agreed to purchase St. Louis-based Mortgage Returns, which provides customer-relationship management services.

Mortgage banking represented one weak spot in Wells Fargo's third-quarter results and company officials said that would likely be the case in the fourth quarter.

Altisource has set its sights on the real estate services market with two acquisitions that will dramatically grow its business in this area.

Bank of America originated $13.7 billion of first-mortgage loans and $3.1 billion of home equity loans during the third quarter, the company said in its quarterly earnings release.