For those who do use social media, they have to decide where they are going to get the best return on their efforts.

I was pleased to hear from many readers who read my column last week about trying to reboot their businesses in the midst of rapid market change.

Regulators have begun a push to significantly limit, and in some cases completely eliminate, the use of automated valuation tools in property valuation efforts.

Single-family housing starts in June came in at a seasonally adjusted rate of 591,000, about 0.8% below the revised May figure of 596,000.

Overall, revenue for Bank of America increased 3% on yearly basis from $22.2 billion in 2012 to $22.9 billion in 2Q13.

The market share of refinance applications fell to their lowest percentage since April 2011, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

Mortgage Master also revealed other figures showing its average production per loan officer during the first half was $16 million.

You need to be able to deal with an unexpected temporary shutdown of operations.

Zillow Mortgage Marketplace said the 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell 15 basis points from a week earlier and is currently 4.26%.

The latest monthly numbers released by Hope Now servicer alliance show 74,000 modifications completed under both the Home Affordable Modification Program.

The median list price of a home for sale increased 0.45% in June from May and by 5.27% over June 2012.

The long-anticipated collapse in mortgage applications, finally a reality, stands to take a bite out of bank earnings in the second quarter and beyond.

The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index rose six points in July to 57.

Rentsys Recovery Services, a provider of disaster recovery solutions for community banks, credit unions and other enterprises, acquired EverGreen Data Continuity.

LoanLogics has developed an automated module to detect the cause of reconciliation errors between MERS data and servicing system data that can improve origination.

With this acquisition, Accenture hopes to become the largest end-to-end provider of mortgage services in the U.S.

The real news in JPMorgan Chase's second-quarter report was the weak outlook that it provided for traditional banking.

ISGN CEO Ritesh Idnani explains how outsourcing fits into mortgage lending and servicing operations.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told investors last week that rising interest rates could trigger a dramatic reduction in the bank’s mortgage profits.

A new online wholesale trading platform was launched by SecondaryWire designed to accommodate the sale of brokers’ and correspondents’ loans to investors.