Mortgages

A jump in the mortgage industry employment rate is one of the signs indicating more recruiting will take place due to the recovery.

Morningstar released a presale report on another Goldman Sachs single-asset commercial mortgage-backed securities deal.

Single-family housing starts edged up by 0.5% in February and have been relatively flat since December.

During the fourth quarter of 2012, CoreLogic said approximately 200,000 homeowners returned to a state of positive equity.

Two Harbors Investment Corp. has priced a public offering of 50 million shares of its common stock at an offering price of $13.46 per share.

Christopher Hurn, CEO of SBA 504 lender Mercantile Capital, has written a book to give advice to business owners.

Eastern Union Funding is creating a credit quality division with the aim of enhancing its relationships with its funding sources and its borrowers.

All but four Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks were losers on Monday as the market reacted to uncertainty in Europe.

Prommis Holdings, which provides processing services for defaults and foreclosures in the residential mortgage industry, sought bankruptcy protection from creditors.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency has assigned preliminary investment grade ratings to another single-borrower commercial mortgage-backed securities transaction.

Hallmark Home Mortgage has formally launched USA Wholesale Lending.

A poster on the Mortgage Grapevine is asking for help from fellow community members.

We're hearing MERS is far from done spending time and money defending its right to serve as the official record of who owns mortgages and servicing rights.

In the eyes of the attorneys general from nine states principal writedowns on federally insured mortgage loans are the Achilles’ heel of the housing and overall economic recovery.

The U.S. residential mortgage-backed securities sector continued to account for the majority of downgrades in Fitch’s 2012 global structured finance rating and impairment activity report.

New vendor management requirements place increased scrutiny on how banks and nonbanks are managing third-party risk, while it is clear that the regulators and government agencies expect more oversight.

Housing forecasters remain optimistic that property values will continue to increase over the next several years and exceed pre-bubble rates by 2017.

Due to their access to capital, the big national builders are getting lots of orders and they are scooping up building lots.

A group of 42 independent appraisal companies have unified their operations under the name Valbridge Property Advisors.

Orion FCU is putting potential buyers into foreclosed homes as part of an innovative rent-to-own initiative.