Life company commercial mortgage investments had a return of 7.48% for all of 2012, including 1.85% in the fourth quarter, according to the LifeComps Commercial Mortgage Loan Index.

Melanie Feliciano, the chief legal officer at DocMagic, spoke on a panel with Roger Fendelman of Interthinx about vendor management and technology changes resulting from the Dodd-Frank rules.

Just three of the 17 Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks finished trading on Thursday ahead of their Wednesday close, as investors continue to worry about the situation in Cyprus.

Home sales in Florida are up over 10% in February compared with the same month in 2012, Florida Realtors reported.

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Wells Fargo was the top originator for commercial mortgage-backed securities and loans sold to other investors.

Sales of previously owned homes rose 0.8% in February from the prior month as single-family sales were flat and condominium sales jumped 9%.

The seasonally adjusted HPI published by the Federal Housing Finance Agency Thursday morning shows that prices rose 0.6% in January after a 0.5% increase in December.

Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac closed at $1.08 per share on Wednesday, continuing a spectacular run-up in recent days.

There was $11.4 billion of premiums written last year by the nation’s title insurance underwriters, up from $9.5 billion one year prior.

Mortgage market participants are typically taking a three step approach to new regulation, according to an Accenture executive.

The average FICO dropped from 749 in January 2013 to 745 in February 2013, the lowest point since May 2012.

The level of home equity held by America’s senior citizens is now at the highest level since the second quarter of 2009, a beneficiary of the recovery in the housing market.

Consumer credit quality remains healthy through the end of February as all rate categories tracked by S&P/Experian decreased on an annual basis.

Collateralized mortgage obligation issuance so far this year has been stronger than last, but volume levels are still shy of what it was in 2011.

Several industry solution providers have led the pack in advancing the quality and availability of mortgage data, analytics and compliance.

Single-family housing starts edged up by 0.5% in February and have been relatively flat since December.

During the fourth quarter of 2012, CoreLogic said approximately 200,000 homeowners returned to a state of positive equity.

All but four Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks were losers on Monday as the market reacted to uncertainty in Europe.

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