As the upcoming spring and summer seasons approach where home buying is known to ramp up, Realtors are curious whether they will have success selling distressed properties this year.

Our industry is a complex system and there are a lot of pipes carrying a lot of information.

Xerox has restructured its signature lending platform to facilitate data exchanges between lenders, servicers, investors and third parties.

From smartphones and tablets to social networking, technology infiltrated the way we live so immensely it is hard to imagine not having them constantly at our fingertips.

The more regulators look into borrower complaints as an indicator of servicing quality, the more servicers are bound to expand borrower-related datasets and behavioral analytics to minimize loan default risk.

We're hearing despite all the progress the mortgage industry has made in going paperless, it's perhaps more than a little ironic that the most important event in the mortgage process is still largely a paper-driven affair.

DocMagic has launched BorrowerMobile, an application that allows tablets or smartphones to be used for consumer-lender communication.

Single-family starts fell to a 619,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate in March from a 650,000 rate in February.

The default rate on first mortgage loans improved seven basis points between February and March, with second mortgages improving by two basis points.

The number of U.S. jurisdictions that are electronically recording land and mortgage documents saw a major increase in the past 11 months jumping to 900 counties.

Kroll Factual Data said it saw a 1.6% average decrease nationwide regarding possible fraud in applications it processed in 4Q12 when compared with 3Q12.

Mortgage banking revenue fell 16% in the first quarter at U.S. Bancorp, compared to the prior quarter.

Ongoing efforts to modernize Federal Housing Administration technology will pave the way for property valuations and electronic mortgages.

The demand for homeownership has always been a primary indicator of the state of the national economy.

ClosingCorp has released a product designed to offer more accurate pricing for real estate services.

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.