Residential sales and construction activity increased at a moderate to strong pace in all 12 Federal Reserve Bank districts since the last Beige Book was issued in early April.

Inherent market risks are not stopping real estate owners from choosing to operate as niche real estate investment trusts, according to Fitch Ratings.

Fannie Mae’s SMDU is a technology platform that provides servicers with real-time decisions on mortgage loan modifications and other solutions for homeowners with payment challenges.

Massachusetts foreclosure activity through April remained at levels dramatically lower than those recorded last year.

Envoy Mortgage, currently engaged in enhancing and restructuring its mortgage banking capabilities, is choosing in-house servicing over subservicing.

Process efficiency is name of the game in a mortgage environment where originators will be looking at every dime spent versus received

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Bayview Loan Servicing is expanding customer assistance services through a partnership with MortgageKeeper Referral Services that adds financial counseling to the menu.

Auction.com Research said the volume of hotel deals are on a healthy post-recession pace due to moderate growth in the job market and an improved gross domestic product.

The chief executive of First American Financial Corp. said rival Fidelity National Financial’s deal to acquire Lender Processing Services was a good transaction for those companies and a neutral to slightly positive one for his firm.

Steve Campbell will be responsible for overseeing all of ProVest’s technological responsibilities, including managing technology infrastructure planning and deployment.

The biggest year-over-year home price increase occurred in six years as values rose 12.1% nationwide in April.

In this day and age of increased government enforcement of mortgage company marketing practices, as well as the risk of civil litigation, having an accurate portrayal of what was on your website at any given time can be difference between winning and losing a legal case.

DocMagic said that Equifax has approved the company as an eSign provider for electronic IRS 4506-T requests from its clients.

Industry-driven solutions based on some of the most pressing issues facing real estate valuation today are crucial to the mortgage marketplace today as it adopts to the post-crisis reality.

One loan driver is anecdotal evidence shared by a number of credit unions that are booking mortgages with low loan-to-value and short duration.

The next few months will see significant changes in the mortgage loan market and those changes will impact the credit unions that write those loans.

The Eleventh Federal Home Loan District Cost of Funds Index gained 0.3 basis points in April.

While there is no shortage of technology available today, partnering with the wrong solution provider could spell disaster for an institution, and potentially jeopardize future business processes.

Old Republic Title and the regional underwriters as a group continued to grab market share away from the other three national underwriters.