Black Knight Financial Services is seeking a buyer for PCLender, one of its three loan origination systems, three years after acquiring it.

Mortgage rates increased as the improving job market bolstered speculation that the Federal Reserve will keep scaling back its stimulus.

Mortgage applications fell last week as fewer consumers purchased properties and refinanced their homes.

Tree.com, the parent of LendingTree, increased fourth-quarter revenue by more than half from a year earlier, a feat the company credited to strategy changes and new products.

Hope LoanPort has started new collaborative partnerships with several national organizations to collectively provide foreclosure-related fraud prevention assistance to homeowners.

Fannie Mae researchers attribute the sharp turn in perceptions to winter blues.

Zaio Corp., a Canadian company that tracks property values in the U.S., is in talks to acquire Axis Appraisal Management Solutions.

FICO plans to release a new broad-based scoring model this summer that helps lenders analyze a consumer's credit risk with greater accuracy.

These companies have cut 21,500 employees since last summer.

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Mortgage rates for 30-year loans fell for the first time in four weeks, decreasing borrowing costs for homebuyers as the recovery in prices stretched into 2014.

Mortgage applications rose 9.4% from a week earlier, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's survey for the week ending Feb. 28.

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New Year's resolutions are beginning to fade and the reality of the shrinking origination market has settled in for most residential mortgage lenders.

Hovnanian Enterprises reported a wider loss for its fiscal first quarter as inclement weather extended construction times and sales demand slowed.

Wipro Gallagher Solutions announced its NetOxygen loan origination system has added an integration with mortgage technology developer Optimal Blue's product and pricing engine.

Brian Scott Cohen of Wells Fargo's Brooklyn, N.Y. office is now the provisional leader in Origination News' 2013 Top 200 loan officer survey.

Woodward Asset Capital has started a real estate brokerage brand catering specifically to property sellers, including banks and mortgage servicers unloading foreclosed homes.

Loan modifications continued their dominance as the primary method for foreclosure prevention in 2013, both through government-driven and proprietary servicer programs.