Mortgages

Borrowers in 900 communities in 48 states will continue to have access to Rural Housing Service-backed single-family loans for at least another six months.

Mortgage REIT Redwood Trust is ready to hit the market with yet another new jumbo deal.

Probably more than 200 people per week are being indicted and/or convicted nationwide for mortgage fraud.

The 2012 Top Tech-Savvy Lenders and Servicers have voted and Mortgage Technology is pleased to announce the finalists for the first-ever Lenders’ Choice Award.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., whose $22 billion purchase of Archstone Inc. at the height of the property boom helped sink the bank, is now trying to sell the apartment owner at another peak.

Retail Properties of America said its shareholders should reject a mini-tender offer from Lapis Investment Business Trust to purchase up to 100,000 shares from each class of the company’s common stock for $8.25 per share.

Freddie Mac’s latest rate survey bears out earlier accounts this week showing long-term mortgage rates have dropped notably in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s third round of quantitative easing.

In the nearly four months since its launch, Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital has originated $421 million in commercial real estate loans.

The first official report from the Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight isn't due until a year after the settlement was finalized, or April 2013.

Nationstar Mortgage priced yet another offering of senior notes—this one for $100 million.

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A reading on pending home sales fell in August but activity remains robust.

Residential Capital Corp. will be auctioned off to the highest bidder in less than a month but the process of choosing a winning bidder could stretch out to five days.

Flagstar Bancorp must stand trial over charges it breached contracts for financial guaranty insurance on roughly $1 billion in residential mortgage-backed securities it issued during the run-up to the financial crisis.

Since Wells Fargo threw in the towel on wholesale this summer, rumors have surfaced that the megabank might also quit or curtail its correspondent purchases.

California Gov. Jerry Brown this week signed three new laws that are part of the Homeowner Bill of Rights aimed at increasing prosecutions for mortgage-related crimes.

A new player in the origination market has originated $100 million in loans that are not eligible for sale to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or coverage under FHA. Who is it?

Sales of new single-family homes declined 0.3% in August from the month prior to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 373,000 units, even though mortgage rates fell to new lows.

The Federal Reserve's latest mortgage bond purchases so far are helping profit margins at lenders more than homebuyers and property owners looking to refinance.

Consumer advocates filed a discrimination complaint this week alleging that Bank of America violated fair-housing laws by failing to appropriately maintain and market foreclosed properties in minority neighborhoods.