Lenders increased their origination of home equity lines of credit, or HELOCs, by 21% in the 12 months ending in June.

Mortgage rates fell to the lowest level in a month after the International Monetary Fund's cut to its global-growth outlook drove investors to the safety of the U.S. government bonds that guide borrowing costs.

Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act-Truth in Lending Act reform effective next summer requires significant operational changes, but if lenders prepare now, it shouldn’t be as scary as a zombie apocalypse.

Mortgage application volume increased last week behind a surge in refinance and purchase activity.

Mortech has introduced a platform that enables mortgage lenders to create a customized website for their personal brand and business.

United Housing Services America has released the latest version of its mortgage pre-funding and post-closing quality control software.

The institutionalization of peer lending is pulling banks into more competitive bidding for loans as originators expand into newer and untested asset classes, such as online real estate loans.

Consumer confidence in the housing market rebounded in Fannie Mae's latest national consumer attitudes survey.

Interthinx has partnered with Collateral Analytics to launch an automated appraisal, collateral evaluation and mortgage origination compliance risk assessment tool.

B of A mortgage strategists are concerned these underserved borrowers will keep housing market activity at "anemic levels."

Home prices increased 6.4% in August compared to a year earlier, according to data from CoreLogic.

DocMagic, a document provider for the mortgage industry, said that it has launched a version of its service through Liquid Logics' cloud-based loan origination system.

Mortgage delinquencies increased in August compared to the previous month, according to data released Monday by Black Knight.

Every successful lender is familiar with those periods when an operations staff that had previously been working feverishly on a big pipeline of loans is suddenly faced with much less work.

Hiring in the mortgage industry slowed in August, as small lenders added just a few hundred workers to their payrolls, but still managed to increase their headcount for the fourth month in a row.

Mortgage credit availability remained unchanged in September, according to data released Thursday by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Mortgage rates dipped slightly for the week ending Oct. 2 despite strong GDP data, according to a weekly report from Freddie Mac.

Too many lenders simply gather their mortgage application data for their annual HMDA report and send it to their regulators without realizing its value, according to David Moffat, president and chief executive of Mortgage TrueView.

AllRegs has begun publishing FHA single-family policies on its publishing platform.

Mortgage applications dropped for the second straight week due to a slight decline in home refinancings.