Mortgages

Deval, a loan servicing company in Dallas, has received its Freddie Mac servicer approval.

Mortgage applications were higher during the last week of January as interest rates fell to lows last seen in May 2013.

JPMorgan plans to add $940 million to the growing pipeline of residential mortgage-backed securities.

Retirement Funding Solutions will begin issuing reverse mortgages, the division of Synergy One Lending said this week.

Studying borrowers' credit characteristics and tightening quality control are more important to how mortgages perform than the size of down payments.

Accurate data is critical in the mortgage business. Yet, we often forget exactly how much data goes into every loan file, and that the amount of data continues to grow every year.

The Federal Housing Administration's new foreclosure relief options for nonborrowing spouses of reverse mortgage customers will increase loan servicers' costs, and some question how many consumers they will actually help.

WinWater Home Mortgage is preparing another plain-vanilla private-label residential mortgage securitization.

During last year's fourth quarter, commercial and multifamily loan originations increased by 11% from the same time a year before, a new report by the Mortgage Bankers Association says.

Embrace Home Loans, a direct mortgage lender in Newport, R.I., has partnered with Rockland Trust, to process, underwrite and close loans for the Rockland, Mass.-based bank.

While many of the lenders and investment firms seeking to profit from higher-risk mortgages are working to revive the business of bundling such loans into bonds, Citadel, one of the biggest players, is in no rush to see that happen.

The sale of real estate owned properties generated greater returns than short sales in December, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

The level of success we achieve in life has much more to do with our tenacity than our talent.

Home prices were up 5% in December from a year earlier, according to CoreLogic.

When Seattle Mayor Ed Murray created a blue-ribbon panel on housing affordability in September, he used the word "urgency."

The Super Bowl is history, marking the start of a new high-stakes season: the spring real estate market. After what many industry insiders considered a disappointing 2014, hopes are high for 2015.

Home sales in Southern California's San Fernando Valley tanked in 2014, falling 7 percent from a year earlier to a record low in response to rising prices and scant inventory.

The Greenwich, Conn., Town Assessor's office booked paperwork for 40 residential real estate closings last month, with a median sale price of $1.3 million, down significantly from last January's median closing price of $2 million.

Standard & Poor's $1.5 billion settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, more than a dozen states and the biggest U.S. pension fund today will let the world's biggest rating company move beyond a bruising legal battle, at a steep cost.

President Obama's 2016 budget plan tackled a host of big picture items for mortgages, including Dodd-Frank reform, FHA lending and GSE reform.