Home prices in 20 U.S. cities appreciated at a faster pace in the year ended in January, indicating the residential real estate market continues to firm.

If lenders can't get the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to back off its Aug. 1 integrated mortgage disclosures deadline, they're at least hoping to get some leniency while they adjust to the new process.

The Federal Housing Administration will require single family home mortgage appraisals to be submitted through an online electronic delivery portal starting on June 27, 2016, the agency announced.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending March 27.

The rate of Hispanic homeownership fell in 2014 to its lowest level since 1999, according to data by the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals.

Mortgage rates declined for a second week, sending costs for 30-year loans to their lowest in more than a month as the busiest homebuying season gets under way.

It's was anything but a winter wonderland for the housing market, according to a report by Freddie Mac.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may delay the Aug. 1 implementation deadline for new mortgage disclosure forms if vendors aren't ready, said CFPB Deputy Director Steven Antonakes.

Mortgage application volume elevated in the week ending March 20 as interest rates reached lows not seen since the beginning of the year.

In a reflection of the recovering housing market, consumer demand for home equity lines of credit is surging, according to the Consumer Banker Association's Home Equity Lending Committee.

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Home prices increased less than economists estimated in January as traditional buyers took the place of investors, leading to smaller gains.

Changes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's consumer complaint system could give lenders lots to gripe about if they don't prepare accordingly and be proactive, mortgage industry consulting firm STRATMOR Group said March 23.

The percentage of mortgage loans refinancing as part of the overall origination market continued to grow in February following January's blockbuster month, according to data released Wednesday by Ellie Mae.

Today's college students are the mortgage borrowers of the future. They'll expect mobile interactions with lenders, but engaging them with the technology can be trickier than building the perfect bracket.

From interest rate movements to new disclosures and vendor management challenges, the recent Regional Conference of Mortgage Bankers Associations touched on myriad hot-button topics the mortgage industry faces this year.

An outage that crippled the Internal Revenue Service's ability to process 4506-T forms for nearly two weeks has been resolved, but the capacity constraints in the tax transcript service are an ongoing challenge for the mortgage industry.

Right now policy makers, industry participants and advocates are no doubt discussing how to remedy the housing industry's problems. Their discussions are based on assumptions that might not be correct.

The number of borrowers who owe more on their mortgage than the value of their home continued to improve last year, according to CoreLogic.

Housing starts slumped in February by the most in four years as bad winter weather in parts of the U.S. prevented builders from initiating new projects.