More than 85% of Redfin’s real estate agents said now is a good time for homeowners to sell, up from 82% in the first quarter, but only 46% said it was a good time to buy, down from 57%.

When Wolters Kluwer asked bankers recently which regulatory concerns keep them up at night, 46% said "regulatory reform"—referring to new rules stemming from the Dodd-Frank Act and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The recent jump in mortgage rates has not impacted foot traffic at KB Home’s showrooms and it is not discouraging buyers.

The National Association of Realtors leading indicator of future home sales jumped 6.7% in May to the highest level since 2006.

The prices of loans supporting commercial mortgage backed securities decreased 60 basis points between the end of April and the end of May

Mortgages serviced by large national and federal savings banks supervised by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency performed better in the first quarter than a year earlier.

The average for the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage jumped 53 basis points this week to its highest level in almost two years.

In an effort to simplify its mortgage process and improve compliance, BOK Financial has chosen DocuTech’s mortgage loan document software.

Mortgage purchases by Freddie Mac slipped in May for the second month in a row as refinancing activity continued to decline.

In this segment of a roundtable discussion from the 2013 Mortgage Bankers Association’s National Fraud Issues Conference, the panelists explain how a closing agent is now doing a vendors job verifying the information that is submitted on a loan application.

Some lenders are still operating under the old “fix it later” mentality.

The Miami Beach home of Centrust’s former chairman David Paul was sold for $30 million.

The Mortgage Bankers Association has teamed up with AllRegs to create an index that measures the supply of mortgage credit at the outer boundaries of the spectrum.

Both delinquency and foreclosure rates hit new post-housing crisis lows through the end of May, according to Lender Processing Services.

Demand for valuation analytics lead LoanLogics and Platinum Data Solutions into a partnership that links loan performance reporting to collateral valuation technology.

New home sales rose in May for the third straight month as sales in the previous two months were revised upward.

According to the Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index, U.S. house price appreciation through April rose 0.7% on a seasonally-adjusted basis from the previous month.

As of April 2013 the highest monthly gains in home prices occurred, according to the S&P Case-Schiller home price indices.

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Homes.com adds all top 100 markets have a year-over-year price increase as well.