April home values reached similar levels from nearly nine years ago, according to the latest Zillow real estate market report.

Laggards in adopting compliance technology can take a long time to get up to speed.

When it comes to appraisals, different lenders have different needs, depending on lending strategies, business models and areas served.

Real Integrated Technology has released version 2.0 of its Commercial Site Inspector.

Compliance Connections, which allows mortgage loan servicers and municipalities to communicate immediately when code issues arise, has surpassed processing 20,000 violations.

Plenty of financial firms are underprepared or haven’t adequately tested their recovery plans.

A panel of 49 economic forecasters expects housing starts will hit 1 million this year and 1.18 million in 2014 as home prices continue to rise.

Credit unions are showing a healthy 5.2% annual growth in lending, but the overall loan-to-share ratio, 57.1%, remains at its lowest point since 1994.

ISGN Corp. appointed former Xerox executive Nancy Alley as its chief product officer.

The qualified mortgage rule is a special carve-out to the ability to repay requirement.

Home sales probably rose in April to the highest level in more than three years, extending gains in residential real estate that are giving the U.S. expansion a lift.

The state of e-mortgages is now poised to take a quantum leap forward.

San Francisco is considered to be the least affordable market in the nation for housing.

New compliance requirements don’t typically inspire the most innovative technology enhancements in the mortgage industry. But the upcoming overhaul of borrower disclosure forms has created an opportunity to re-engineer the way lenders and title companies execute mortgage closings, according to Document Systems Inc. CEO Dominic Iannitti.

In the past two years, 85% of Hispanics were engaged in online banking, compared to 74% of all U.S. households.

LendingQB has put the guidelines from four of the six private mortgage insurers onto its loan origination system’s automated underwriting engine.

With regulatory reform, the secondary mortgage market as well as the primary one will have heightened liability when it comes to loans.

As a result of the new qualified mortgage rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, nearly half (44%) of credit unions in a survey indicated they will cease originations of non-qualified mortgages, while another 44% will reduce originations.

The National Association of Realtors is projecting that existing home sales will rise 16% from 2012 to 5 million this year.

When it comes to counseling consumers on their financial health, home buying or home retention, an effective client management system can help with that process that takes place following an initial counseling session.