There are many conversations that take place during the mortgage process, and a lot of them are conversations between players in the industry.

A trend of fewer homeowners refinancing their mortgages as interest rates climb is helping to curb sales of home-loan bonds without government backing.

The pace of home construction declined more than forecast in January, indicating an unusually harsh winter probably played a role in slowing projects.

Platinum Data Solutions has completed an initial round of accuracy testing on the 18 automated valuation models that it resells to lenders and servicers.

Thousands of lenders post oceans of data each year to meet Home Mortgage Disclosure Act obligations. There may be more reporting requirements coming. Will the value of the new transparency outweigh the added compliance burden to lenders?

Confidence among homebuilders plunged in February by the most on record as bad weather limited prospective buyer traffic and depressed sales.

Ben Anderson is the early leader among survey respondents, with volume of $201 million in 2013.

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The mortgage tech vendor is trying to maintain profits by signing and upgrading customers. The headwinds it faces reflect broader industrywide challenges: lower origination volume and new compliance requirements.

The mortgage industry has always been an adrenaline junkie, getting its thrills by riding the highest roller coaster it can find and hoping the landing will be soft this time. What if you could smooth out the highs and the lows?

Mortgage software firm Ellie Mae posted higher year-over-year revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2013, but reported a dip in net income as operating expenses rose.

A New York startup vows to reduce risk and bring transparency and regulatory oversight to a much-hyped investment class.

The MBA builder survey points to a strong start for the spring selling season.

Luxury-apartment owners in New York are listing a record amount of properties for sale, testing the upper limits of what buyers are willing to pay even as median prices remain off their peak set almost six years ago.

Institutional investors have bought as many as 200,000 U.S. properties in the last two years, taking advantage of real estate prices that fell as much as a third from the 2006 peak, and rising demand for rentals among Americans who lost their houses in the foreclosure crisis.

Mortgage rates for 30-year loans increased for the first time in six weeks as the two-year-old housing recovery showed signs of slowing.

The Green Lender Award acknowledges a lender that uses technology to promote sustainable and environmentally conscious business practices in the mortgage industry. Learn about this year's finalists and see who won the 2013 MT Award.

Mortgage applications fell 2% for the week ended Feb. 7, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The single-family mortgage delinquency rate has been declining for eight straight quarters and it ended 2013 at the lowest level since 2008.

Centralized databases inside the loan origination system provide an efficient way to comply with the Qualified Mortgage requirements and more efficiently use loan information from origination to servicing and securitization.