Practice and client management

Colony American Finance has been rebranded as Corvest American Lender in the wake of equity and asset acquisitions by funds affiliated with Fortress Investment Group.

From Indianapolis to Nashville, here's a look at the 15 hottest residential real estate markets of summer 2017.

New compliance challenges and competition make real estate alliances harder to secure. But they're essential for lenders to maximize market share. (Part three in a four-part series on the mortgage industry's response to the housing inventory shortage.)

A builder promises to offer that rarest of products in Palm Beach County's real estate market — new single-family homes priced at less than $300,000.

The inventory crunch caused the time a property lists until it goes into contract to reach a new low in June, at 36 days, according to Redfin.

New and used auto lending broke records, while HELOCs and second mortgages reached levels not seen since 2012.

Financial firms say the database is unreliable and would like to see it removed from public view. But the industry would also lose access to competitive insights that can be gleaned from the massive trove of consumer complaints.

Mounting compliance risks and an evolving landscape for how consumers shop for homes and mortgages have some lenders re-examining whether they still need co-marketing arrangements with real estate brokerages.

Real estate site Zillow is launching a $1 million competition among data scientists to improve its "Zestimate" home valuations, but said the crowdsourcing initiative is unrelated to recent lawsuits filed in Chicago against the company.

Here's a look at the top cities where out-of-town house hunters are looking to buy. Mortgage lenders can capitalize on these trends with targeted marketing and specialized customer service to cater to these consumers.

Bank of the West is using alternative data and the international expertise of its parent company to tap into the lucrative but difficult to underwrite market of middle- and upper-class immigrant mortgage borrowers.

First Savings Financial in Indiana and Dime Community in New York are keen on making more SBA loans as a way to diversify revenue and generate fees through loan sales.

The median time it took a home listed for sale to go into contract was 40 days in April, the fastest since Redfin started tracking this data in 2010.

The majority of mortgage lenders don't expect to use chatbots to communicate with clients anytime soon, the results of a Fannie Mae survey said.

The time needed to close a mortgage improved nine days since the start of the year as the market has shifted to doing more purchase loans.

The German bank posted two consecutive years of losses partly because of misconduct fines tied to the Libor and other scandals.

Stilwell Group, an activist investor, is alleging that HopFed chief John Peck bought two properties from the then-chairman of the Kentucky company's compensation committee and that the deals were a conflict of interest.

Cities in the South are more affordable for first-time homebuyers because of less competition and lower prices, according to Zillow.

JPMorgan Chase will give its Sapphire credit card customers 100,000 rewards points for closing home-purchase loans with the bank.

While consumers pay for mortgage insurance policies, carriers like Arch MI are forging new relationships with real estate agents and strengthening lender partnerships to reach the growing segment of millennial and low-to-moderate-income homebuyers.