The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency reported a significant reduction in the number of foreclosure starts in the fourth quarter by the major banks it supervises.

The National Association of Realtors leading indicator of future existing home sales stalled in February.

Mortgage applications during the week ending March 22 met expectations that they would reverse the previous week’s drop, rising 7.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis and 8% on an unadjusted basis.

Freddie Mac purchased nearly $43 billion in mortgage loans and securities in February, down fractionally from January.

The National Association of Realtors’ venture capital fund Tuesday named six participating real estate technology start-ups it will be working with.

QuestSoft has made updates to its Compliance Eagle platform so the platform is in compliance with the upcoming Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule changes.

Shadow inventory figures continue to fall from their peak highs three years ago.

Average home prices through January increased on a monthly and yearly basis, according to the S&P/Case-Schiller home price index.

DocMagic has maintained a nearly perfect uptime record for the last four months, which included the company’s move to a new location and switch over to a new technology center.

Lender Processing Services said in its “first look” report that the U.S. loan delinquency now stands at 6.80%.

One factor fueling DocuTech's growth is the changes to the regulatory and compliance landscape that lenders are grappling with, said CEO Scott Stucky.

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A report from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods reviewing mortgage banking results for 4Q12 notes that while things were generally positive, concerns about the sustainability of the current environment have increased.

SharperLending LLC has partnered with Equifax to provide its lenders and resellers with a mortgage fraud identification and prevention tool that helps them track a borrower’s credit activity.

Veros believes the five markets which will see the most improvement are: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana; San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont; Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale; San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif.; and Midland, Texas.

House prices rose 0.3% in January from the prior month, according to Lender Processing Services.

The Regional Conference of Mortgage Bankers Associations 2013 was held at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City March 11 through 14. There were some 1,625 attendees total for both the commercial and residential portions of the show.

MGIC Investment Corp. remains the Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stock with the most shares changing hands.

Outsourcing firm Indecomm Global Services has launched new foreclosure assignment services for use in the creation, execution, recording and tracking of foreclosure assignments as well as the verification of the title on the property.