Mortgages

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking an enforcement action against four private mortgage insurance companies for allegedly paying kickbacks to lenders for business referrals.

ProVest, a legal services firm that manages the delivery of documents for foreclosure proceedings, has expanded its operations in the Midwest region.

NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. has priced a preferred stock offering which will raise $175 million for the company.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. defeated most of a lawsuit brought by Dexia SA over about $1.6 billion in mortgage-backed securities it bought before the financial crisis.

The average rate for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage in Freddie Mac’s weekly survey dropped three basis points to 3.54% during the week ending April 4.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas has signed up for the Mortgage Partnership Finance Xtra program.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency has assigned preliminary ratings to UBS-BB 2013-C6, a $1.3 billion commercial mortgage-backed securities conduit transaction.

Mislabeling by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has exaggerated the number of consumer complaints the bureau received regarding mortgage brokers.

With the April 15 tax filing deadline less than two weeks away, Amy Tierce has a couple of things any self-employed person needs to be aware of.

California’s housing counselors find the nation’s largest banks already are failing to comply with the National Mortgage Settlement and the state’s Homeowners Bill of Rights.

Only two of the 17 stocks tracked by the Mortgage Industry Equity Composite index survived the investor selloff during Wednesday.

There is one provider of lender-placed insurance products which said the recent Federal Housing Finance Agency notice on the topic did not go far enough.

MBIA Insurance Corp. received a favorable ruling from the New York Appellate Court, First Department, against Bank of America Corp. and Countrywide Home Loans.

CoreLogic said in its monthly Home Price Index that home values escalated by 10.2% in February compared to a year ago.

We're hearing it’s time to figure out exactly how originators should get paid for consumer direct lending.

Ocwen Financial has completed its purchase of the reverse mortgage lender Liberty Home Equity Solutions from Genworth Financial.

The Obama administration wants to give Federal Housing Administration lenders more breathing room so they can feel confident about lending to a wide range of borrowers without being sued by the government.

Loans securing commercial mortgage-backed securities finished 2012 at their lowest levels of new defaults since 2008.

360 Mortgage Group is offering a product designed for borrowers who qualify for less than 20% mortgage downpayment loans.

The deal, K-712, has an estimated size of $1.4 billion.