Mortgages

A GOP budget plan authored by Rep. Paul Ryan calls for the winding down of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and higher fees on FHA-insured loans.

Bank of Commerce Mortgage officially changed its name to Commerce Mortgage.

Several of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers, housing counseling nonprofits and insurance companies gathered in New Jersey to offer face-to-face assistance to New Jersey homeowners affected by Hurricane Sandy.

We're hearing online lenders’ reputations grow publicly with every failure, to paraphrase George Bernard Shaw.

The National Fair Housing Alliance and the Consumer Federation of America are adding to the chorus of supporters urging Congress to renominate Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for a second term.

An increasing number of wealthy Eastern European homebuyers are looking for crisis-induced U.S. real estate opportunities.

Boston’s real estate market is seeing a boom in construction as developers financed with cheap debt seek to profit from a growing workforce of educated young adults.

A post on the Mortgage Grapevine from Txrelittttter discusses a situation this mortgage broker had with a client.

Carrington Mortgage Services launched a new program that offers brokers and borrowers shorter processing times to close a loan.

The Georgia Department of Banking and Finance reached an agreement with a broker who violated the state’s Residential Mortgage Act.

Industry groups are urging the House and Senate appropriators to include $5 billion in additional commitment authority for the FHA multifamily and health care programs to prevent a possible shutdown of those loan programs.

Late last month, Joseph A. Smith Jr., the independent monitor of the national mortgage settlement, issued his third progress report.

Ally Bank has reached an agreement to sell a portfolio of more than $85 billion in agency mortgage servicing rights to Ocwen Financial Corp. for roughly $585 million.

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Rob Irby believes living up to what he tells his clients is the difference maker for his success as an originator.

The private mortgage insurers, Radian Group and MGIC Investment Corp., finished Monday as the biggest gainers among Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks.

The nation’s title insurance underwriters, dominated by four national players but also including approximately 30 regional companies, as a whole are appropriately capitalized.

It is a sign of both the tough economy and the changing regulatory environment for mortgage servicers that they are upgrading the technologies they use to manage mortgage defaults.

VantageScore Solutions has reconstructed its credit scoring model both to aid lender implementation and consumer understanding.

Real estate information provider DataQuick has introduced a new set of portfolio analytics.