Mortgages

Pending home sales in California were up nearly 9% in February over January, but when compared with February 2012, they were down 8%.

A push is on in Congress to reinstate a program that allowed small businesses to refinance commercial mortgages using government-backed funds.

DocMagic has maintained a nearly perfect uptime record for the last four months, which included the company’s move to a new location and switch over to a new technology center.

A poster on the Mortgage Grapevine is looking for a source to fund a cash-out refinance in Maryland.

Lender Processing Services said in its “first look” report that the U.S. loan delinquency now stands at 6.80%.

Most commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquencies peaked at 10.34% in the middle of 2012 and fallen since then, but the 2007 vintage's remain high with an average delinquency rate of 14.6% over the past 12 months, according to Trepp.

VA Loan Captain is providing lender support for Re/Max's Veterans First Program.

One factor fueling DocuTech's growth is the changes to the regulatory and compliance landscape that lenders are grappling with, said CEO Scott Stucky.

Currently Indecomm holds licenses in 32 states under the Secure and Fair Enforcement of Mortgage Licensing Act.

Moody’s Investors Service said it would not give any classes of JPMorgan’s new jumbo securitization its top rating due to weaknesses in its structure.

Just about everyone deserves a second chance when it comes to challenges faced in life.

The banking crisis in Cyprus and European market volatility had a bump in the road effect on the performance of securitized commercial mortgage loans.

The appellate court reversed and allowed the plaintiff to sue JPMorgan Chase for fraud and breach of written contract.

There are these times in the rate/economy curve when those who run mortgage businesses have some serious decisions to make.

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While most people might think of an open house as an event hosted by a Realtor, $106-million HomeTown Credit Union turned the tables a bit and welcomed real estate professionals into two of its branches with open houses of its own.

A report from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods reviewing mortgage banking results for 4Q12 notes that while things were generally positive, concerns about the sustainability of the current environment have increased.

Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc. is in settlement talks with an investor group that sued the mortgage servicer over auctions of home loans backing securities.

CUNA Mutual has filed claims over $72 million of troubled MBS it bought from RBS Securities that were rated by S&P.

People who worked in the financial industry on the eve of the mortgage meltdown may themselves have believed in the seeming inevitability of rising home prices.