We're hearing that a funny thing happened on the way to a radiant world of paperless lending: a lot of people decided they liked using paper.

Three industry groups are urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to extend the implementation period for the QM and other mortgage rules by at least six months.

The Stratmor Group has launched MortgageSAT, a customer survey and analytics application that captures consumer feedback and allows lenders to measure and respond to borrower satisfaction.

Lenders are not deploying mobile technology because doing so would magnify inefficiency and increase risk in their operations, to paraphrase Bill Gates.

The Redfin Real-Time Home Price Tracker shows that prices increased 15% on a year-over-year basis in March in the 19 markets that it tracks.

The release of the Consumer Financial Bureau’s federal consumer financial complaints database is little more than the regulator stroking its ego.

Through this partnership, lenders and AMCs will now have an all-in-one solution that helps them manage workflow, ensure compliance and mitigate risk in the appraisal review process.

Mortgage Builder is seeing a large spike in the number of people utilizing their work groups talking about key industry issues.

CoesterVMS has launched a self-serve online platform that allows lenders to verify compliance with all third-party regulations set forth by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau every time an appraisal is completed.

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Rhode Island Supreme Court justices in a ruling held that naming Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems as mortgagee is consistent with Rhode Island law.

Median closing costs went up 0.4% between December 2012 and March of this year.

With the average time for lenders to repossess a housing unit up to a record 477 days nationwide, the fewest properties were foreclosed upon during the first quarter of 2013 in nearly six years.

The Benedict Group has added Web access to its loan servicing software to help clients manage their financial transactions.

I love the MBA tech show. This year it is at a hotel that was refinanced by a plumbers’ trade group. Let’s keep the cracks to a minimum, please.

Today’s homebuyers are spending a higher percentage of their income on a property than they did during the pre-boom period.

Applications for conventional purchase mortgages reached their highest point since October 2009.

According to the Lender Processing Services Mortgage Monitor report, approximately 500,000 loans cured in February alone.

For the eighth straight quarter, overall median sales price in Miami-Dade County has gone up year-over-year.

The return to a purchase market will not be easy for many lenders.