Mortgages

Interactive Mortgage Advisors is offering two small bulk mortgage servicing rights packages, one backed by loans in Pennsylvania, the other in Nevada.

The total amount of commercial real estate debt declined by 0.4% in the second quarter compared with the first.

How to value a loan officer in 2013? Answer: by their relationships with Realtors and home builders.

How to value a residential loan officer in 2013? Answer: their relationships with Realtors and home builders.

Old Republic International Corp. has filed a corrective plan for Republic Mortgage Insurance Co. with the North Carolina Department of Insurance.

National Mortgage News has now completed three dozen years of publication and is proceeding into its fourth dozen.

According to Lender Processing Services, there are over 3.4 million properties 30 or more days past due but not in foreclosure.

The Romney campaign finally weighs in on how to fix the housing market.

Mortgage bankers originated roughly $44.2 billion of jumbo loans in the second quarter, a handsome 82% increase from the same period a year ago.

Ellie Mae COO Jonathan Corr discusses his outlook for mortgage loan origination system vendors. 

It sounds like a novel idea: set up a mutual fund, load it up with residential loans bought at a discount in the secondary market, and sell shares to a yield-hungry public looking for a better return than the 0.50% that most money market accounts are paying.

Both are great on generalities, but low on specifics.

Second quarter new insurance written strong, but legacy business remains an overhang.

Mortgage bankers are worried that the GSEs might be ushering in a ‘score card’ rating on all their customers tied to net worth, loan quality and more.

Arlington Asset Investment Corp., a Virginia-based real estate investment trust that buys residential mortgage-backed securities, priced a public offering of 3 million shares of common at $24.80 per share.

Initial demand shifted toward the long bond in the pricing of Fannie Mae’s latest multifamily delegated underwriting and servicing REMIC deal.

The government-sponsored enterprises have made several recent changes to their underwriting guidelines, potentially expanding the customer base on refi products.

A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposal would provide larger institutions with an incentive for loan officers that smaller community lenders could never match.

FNC Inc. has received a patent for its appraisal score, a move that makes the product the first patented appraisal tool.

Was Berkshire Hathaway faking an interest in Residential Capital Corporation?