Due to their access to capital, the big national builders are getting lots of orders and they are scooping up building lots.

Langley FCU has signed with Mortgage Cadence to implement the company’s Symphony platform to support the credit union’s rapidly expanding mortgage program.

We're hearing that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be selling assets out of their mortgage investment portfolios this year.

Canadian existing home sales fell in February from the previous month on drops in Vancouver and Toronto.

Redfin said Phoenix had 540 of what it has defined as flash sales, a home going into contract 24 hours or less after listing.

California new and existing home and condominium sales in February declined 0.5% from January and fell 3.1% when compared with February 2012.

Fannie Mae priced its third multifamily DUS REMIC for 2013, a $904.3 million deal that is the first of its kind to include 10-year pools with seven years of yield maintenance.

Rates and eligibility information for Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp.’s private mortgage insurance products are now available via LoanSifter.

Re/Max is seeing encouraging signs in its February sales data, including more move-up buyers entering the market.

Despite a modest increase in foreclosure filings on a monthly basis as of February, one housing industry analyst sees relief for the national foreclosure crisis through the end of this year and into 2014.

LoanSafeMods.com is offering a new tool designed to facilitate decision making for borrowers looking at foreclosure alternative options.

Republic Mortgage Home Loans has developed a mobile app exclusively for its borrowers.

Lending Processing Services is adding former Treasury secretary John Snow to its board.

Bliss Sawyer been working on a new e-book and recently wrote up the chapter on social media.

Mortgage servicing market insiders are monitoring regulators with the same attention federal and state legislators are monitoring mortgage banks in general and mortgage servicers in particular. The impact of this dynamic is significant and ongoing.

Sales of single-family homes in Connecticut rose 14% to 1,519 during the first month of this year.

We're hearing online lenders’ reputations grow publicly with every failure, to paraphrase George Bernard Shaw.

Boston’s real estate market is seeing a boom in construction as developers financed with cheap debt seek to profit from a growing workforce of educated young adults.

It is a sign of both the tough economy and the changing regulatory environment for mortgage servicers that they are upgrading the technologies they use to manage mortgage defaults.