Mortgages

All 17 Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks were down on a day the market was affected by a sell-off in gold and other commodities and later by explosions in Boston.

Higher numbers of short sales on securitized residential mortgage loans helped bring down first-quarter losses.

ClosingCorp has released a product designed to offer more accurate pricing for real estate services.

Origination News' discussion during the Regional Conference of Mortgage Bankers Associations delves into whether the switch to purchase will last and what sort of factors could hold back growth.

Residential mortgage banking revenue contributed to M&T Bank’s $68 million year-to-year increase in overall net income to $274 million in the first quarter.

While the Mortgage Grapevine is normally a site for industry insiders, every so often a consumer posts a question.

New Ernst & Young data indicate a major shift in the nonperforming loan market as investors from both sides of the Atlantic eye European assets.

The Stratmor Group has launched MortgageSAT, a customer survey and analytics application that captures consumer feedback and allows lenders to measure and respond to borrower satisfaction.

Small and midsize builders are becoming more frustrated with the increasing costs of labor and materials along with a shortage of building lots and credit.

The Redfin Real-Time Home Price Tracker shows that prices increased 15% on a year-over-year basis in March in the 19 markets that it tracks.

Through this partnership, lenders and AMCs will now have an all-in-one solution that helps them manage workflow, ensure compliance and mitigate risk in the appraisal review process.

Mortgage Builder is seeing a large spike in the number of people utilizing their work groups talking about key industry issues.

CoesterVMS has launched a self-serve online platform that allows lenders to verify compliance with all third-party regulations set forth by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau every time an appraisal is completed.

Consumers historically have not made decisions in the same way investors do when it comes to mortgages, but that may be changing.

Rhode Island Supreme Court justices in a ruling held that naming Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems as mortgagee is consistent with Rhode Island law.

The top originators believe they are the owners of their occupation and they act accordingly.

The broker business is going to be growing over the next two-to-three years.

Median closing costs went up 0.4% between December 2012 and March of this year.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development introduced an expansion of Federal Housing Administration forbearance relief for borrowers affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Hudson City lost 5.47% in Friday trading, making it the worse performing Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stock.