Mortgages

Moody's Investors Service has revised the outlook for CommonWealth REIT's Baa3 senior unsecured rating to negative from stable.

Real Estate Services and Technology Report has updated its loan disposition calculation software with the new HAMP guidelines that expand and extend the program through the end of 2015.

A poster is curious why someone with a 700 FICO and 70% loan-to-value pays the same monthly mortgage insurance premium as a person with a 640 FICO and 90% LTV.

Commissioner Mathew Wambua will be stepping down from his current position as he is set to become the president of RHR Funding.

A panel including former bank regulator Sheila Bair cautioned that the Federal Reserve must take a clear and steady direction out of its "experimental" monetary policies so as not to further harm the economy.

A Florida title agent and former mortgage broker has been sentenced for her role in a reverse mortgage loan fraud scheme.

Fixed mortgage rates resumed an upward trajectory in Freddie Mac’s most recent weekly survey, with the average 30-year rate rising 18 basis points to 4.58% and the average 15-year rate rising 16 basis points to 3.6%.

Home prices rose 0.7% in June, according to a house price index based on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchase mortgage transactions.

Insight Wireless Group is marketing $177.5 million of securities backed by mortgages on cellular towers.

An update sent to the monitor of the national mortgage settlement by the five banks that participate in the agreement showing they dispersed $51.33 billion in consumer relief assistance through June 30 is under review.

Fannie Mae was able to extract an $11.6 billion mortgage-repurchase settlement from Bank of America this year because the bank needed Fannie's approval to sell billions of dollars in servicing rights.

The best states for good health and building real estate wealth are Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, North Carolina, California, Tennessee, Montana, Wyoming, Iowa and Arkansas.

The 2013 Top Tech-Savvy Lenders and Servicers commends mortgage companies that use technology to improve processes, provide exceptional customer service and increase business. Mortgage Technology is pleased to announce the mortgage companies named to this year's list.

Colony American Homes, a single-family rental company, is starting to lend to other landlords.

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition unveiled a new white paper that outlines two alternative proposals for integrating affordable housing into the larger mortgage finance reform debate.

RLJ Lodging Trust attained the 78-room Residence Inn Atlanta Midtown Historic through a foreclosure sale after the borrower defaulted on the loan in early 2013.

Jumbo loan investors are beginning to loosen a little on their underwriting guidelines.

Best practices will have big implications for the industry going forward.

We're hearing a lot about the upcoming NFL season, with the first real games right around the corner.

Examiners from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau discovered that some nonbank servicers don’t have effective compliance management systems to ensure they are following federal consumer protection laws.