The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.57% for the week ending Sept. 5, up from 4.51% the previous week.

With interest rates rising and refinances tanking, a lot of lenders are searching for a bigger share of the home purchase market.

ISGN is working to increase the functionality of its loan origination system, the new chief executive said.

Barry Habib, chief market strategist for Residential Finance, examines the Mortgage Bankers Association Purchase Applications index as well as the July CoreLogic home price report.

Genworth Financial has added two new executives to the management team at its U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiary.

Australian billionaire James Packer bought 9.4% of Zillow Inc., becoming the second-biggest shareholder in the U.S. real estate website.

The premium buyers are paying for newly constructed houses is abnormally high.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that total refinancings by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac seller/servicers fell 8.8% from the first quarter to 1.28 million in the second quarter.

The August delinquency rate for U.S. commercial real estate loans in CMBS dropped for the third straight month.

Fraudsters are looking for easy targets, because once a technology scam is detected the banking industry will quickly take action to thwart future instances by patching up network defenses.

In today’s multifaceted lending environment lenders need to use sophisticated loan servicing systems that support multiple business channels and adapt to ever-changing industry rules and regulations.

Economists at Wells Fargo Securities are sticking with their theory that extremely wet weather in the South is responsible for the recent slowdown in new home construction and sales.

The Eleventh Federal Home Loan District Cost of Funds Index was virtually flat in July compared with June at 0.954%.

Commitments to purchase new mortgages fell 16% from June to $62.4 billion in July—the lowest level since April 2012.

Nationally, house prices jumped 1.8% in July from the prior month, according to the CoreLogic house price index.

Pricing engines have moved from a tool to help sell loans to a “compliance-ready tool” for use by originators.

Today, borrowers can close loans whenever and wherever their schedule permits, thanks to mobile notaries.

Census Bureau data shows that builders started 19,000 single-family attached houses in the quarter, up from 18,000 for the April-May-June period in 2012.

For the second quarter of 2013, total title insurance premiums written were $3.34 billion, compared with $2.77 billion in 2Q12.

U.S. residential properties sold at an estimated annualized pace of 5.5 million in July, which is up 11% from last year.