Mortgages

Freddie Mac is auctioning $327 million of delinquent nonperforming loans.

Connected Investors has created a new centralized real estate investment funding portal that the Wilmington, N.C.-based company believes will simplify deals and relationships.

American Homes 4 Rent has completed its second single-family rental securitization of the year.

Freddie Mac's next bond with exposure to actual losses on mortgages only features loans with loan-to-value ratios of over 80%.

Refinancings as part of the total origination market rose slightly in August, according to Ellie Mae.

Ocwen Financial said it expects to report a loss in its current fiscal year, as it continues to cut costs amid an investigation of its practices.

Mortgage applications dropped 7% from the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the period ending Sept. 11.

Confidence among homebuilders rose in September to the highest level in almost a decade, signaling momentum in residential real estate will support growth in the second half of 2015.

LRES in Orange, Calif., and OSC in Kennesaw, Ga., have partnered to broaden their offerings of real estate services.

A survey from Wells Fargo and Gallup has found that investors continue to take advantage of low interest rates.

License numbers for loan officers, real estate agents and settlement agents will be required on one of the new TILA-RESPA integrated disclosure forms, raising questions about whether they could trigger investigations of possible illegal marketing services agreements.

FirstMerit Corp. has partnered with the Detroit Land Bank to create a down payment assistance program for Detroit homebuyers.

The percentage of residential properties with negative equity fell to the single digits in the second quarter, according to CoreLogic.

Wells Fargo has set a goal to originate $125 billion in residential mortgages to Hispanic borrowers by 2025.

Natural disasters and hidden property defects are about all lenders can count on to constitute a "changed circumstance" delay on the Loan Estimate — but prepare for a case-by-case evaluation, anyway.

The free market wouldn't plop down a trailer park just a few miles from downtown San Jose. At least not today, in a sharply spiking housing market that has made the metropolitan area one of the most expensive in the U.S.

Loan performance has improved since the housing crisis. But credit challenges persist, while higher housing costs combined with a plateau in wages have put increased strain on some borrowers' finances.

Blackstone Group's Invitation Homes, the largest owner of single-family rental houses in the U.S., hired Ernest Freedman from Apartment Investment & Management Co. to become its chief financial officer.

Exchange Bank in Santa Rosa, Calif., has hired the president of Sequoia Pacific Mortgage.

Brian Webster, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's mortgage originations program manager who has worked on a number of technology-related policy and research initiatives, is leaving the agency to join Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.