Mortgages

A poster to the Mortgage Grapevine is looking for a new home for a loan that has received an approved from Freddie Mac’s Loan Prospector.

LoanSafeMods.com is offering a new tool designed to facilitate decision making for borrowers looking at foreclosure alternative options.

Originations of FHA single-family loans totaled $23.6 billion in January, compared to $20 billion in the prior month.

Republic Mortgage Home Loans has developed a mobile app exclusively for its borrowers.

As the housing crisis winds down a shortage of mortgage banking executive talent that had been building up for a decade is reaching its peak.

GSE seller/servicers completed nearly 1.1 million Home Affordable Refinance Program refinancings in 2012, compared to 438,200 in the year prior.

Default attorneys discussed why foreclosure delays are so problematic in not only judicial states, but nonjudicial states, too

There is a major problem first-time homebuyers are currently battling: giant student loan debt.

Ed Gerding, senior fraud and risk strategist at CoreLogic, said short sale fraud is popular today due to the unprecedented levels of shadow inventory, high volume of overall distressed real estate inventory and relatively low property values.

Wilbur Ross has served as a board observer since Ocwen bought Homeward Residential Holdings from WL Ross & Co.

Bank of America cut about 5% of staff in its appraisal unit last month as the firm rid itself of delinquent mortgages.

When does a warehouse loan become a loan, and who owns it?

Home loan applications tracked by the Mortgage Bankers Association’s latest weekly Market Composite Index dropped by 4.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis.

Ginnie Mae MBS issuance totaled $38.7 billion in February, up 1% from January,

Bliss Sawyer been working on a new e-book and recently wrote up the chapter on social media.

Mortgage servicing market insiders are monitoring regulators with the same attention federal and state legislators are monitoring mortgage banks in general and mortgage servicers in particular. The impact of this dynamic is significant and ongoing.

A Dallas woman who represented herself as a real estate investor to run a scheme that defrauded residential mortgage lenders has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas said that $10 million in Affordable Housing Program grants are now available to support housing and community development for struggling borrowers and cities.

Redwood Trust is preparing its fourth private-label residential mortgage-backed securitization of the year.

Sales of single-family homes in Connecticut rose 14% to 1,519 during the first month of this year.