Mortgages

You'll need to earn more in San Francisco than throughout the rest of the country to afford a median-priced home.

The Real Estate Roundtable's quarterly Sentiment Index dipped slightly during the first quarter of 2015.

Lenders must carefully ensure that all potential motivations for advice, recommendations, and referrals are provided to borrowers, as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has positioned itself to utilize Unfair Deceptive or Abusive Acts Practices claims as an enforcement tool.

Although the new rules address many of the issues presented by non-borrowing spouses, one of the rules' principal shortcomings is that they do not sufficiently outline the rebalancing of principal that is often required to substitute these new borrowers.

Sales of previously owned homes fell more than expected in January as a tight supply forced up prices, showing the residential real estate market faces an uneven recovery.

New Residential Investment Corp., a U.S. real estate investment trust, agreed to buy Home Loan Servicing Solutions for about $1.3 billion.

Ocwen Financial has tentatively agreed to sell a mortgage-servicing portfolio on $9.8 billion of loans to Nationstar Mortgage Holdings, and Ocwen hinted that more deals may be in the offing.

A new program in California aims to help low- and moderate-income seniors with reverse mortgages on their homes to avoid foreclosure.

NMN is previewing the upcoming MBA Servicing Conference with a special package of preconvention content. Check out a roundup of links to the coverage.

NMI Holdings, the parent company of National Mortgage Insurance Corp., reported a net loss again in the fourth quarter as it saw growth in new insurance written.

Originators must be able to provide clients with what they want, how they want it and when they want it.

The number of new households being formed has finally recovered post-recession, according to a new study from the University of Southern California.

While the origination industry has begun to see the light at the end of tunnel, its headaches haven't subsided just yet, based on the results of a survey by recruiting firm Hammerhouse.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Feb. 20.

San Francisco's much-maligned Housing Authority is getting out of the management business.

Three more people from the Charlotte region have been sentenced as part of a sprawling mortgage and investment fraud investigation.

California has delivered less than half of $2 billion in federal aid to help victims of the housing crash.

Prospects have improved for homebuyers who were frozen out of the American dream by investors who plunked down cash to buy houses in distressed markets.

While many servicers are under pressure to sell of mortgage servicing rights, there's still a fair amount of interest in buying MSRs from other quarters of the market.

Sellers across Washington and California have a lot to smile about, as cities in these two states ranked among the strongest housing markets in January, according to Pro Teck Valuation Services.