Post-closing document management has taken on new importance in the mortgage industry, particularly in light of record foreclosure volume, the robo-signing scandal and subsequent regulations and scrutiny.

New-home sales jumped nearly 16% in January to a level not seen since the summer of 2008.

Home prices rose on a quarterly and yearly basis through the end of December 2012, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s seasonally adjusted purchase-only house price index.

FDIC-insured institutions originated $765.4 billion in single-family loans in 2012, up nearly 50% from the year prior.

House prices reversed course in 2012 after falling 4.1% the year prior, according to the S&P Case-Shiller 20-city house price index.

Since 2007 when the volume of delinquent mortgage loans increased to unprecedented levels, while surprised and unprepared, servicers started to reinvent their business and adjust to the new reality.

We're hearing in the last few years, private equity, hedge funds and Wall Street types have eyed the distressed housing market for buying opportunities.

Electronic signatures can help mortgage originators increase their sales, move things quicker through the process and as a result get better prices for their loans from investors.

Lenders will handle an estimated 1.5 million maturing lines of credit per year in the next several years.

Benedict Group Inc. has added a series of automated data bridges between its loan servicing software and the CRE loan origination and asset management software of The Rockport Group.

Fitch has issued expected ratings ranging from an investment grade AAA to a speculative grade B on 13 classes of JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust 2013-C10.

Even though the housing market continues to see increases in home values throughout the country, one firm is reluctant whether the nation is in a real recovery.

The purchase of a California home became less affordable in the fourth quarter of 2012 as inventory challenges drove prices higher in the state.

A new national survey revealed that rental demand will be more stable in the future for single-family homes rather than multifamily properties.

House prices rose 5.8% in 2012 after edging up 0.1% from November to December, according to Lender Processing Services.

A single-asset commercial mortgage-backed securities deal collateralized by a $900 million first-mortgage loan on a Times Square area property in New York is underway.

We're hearing that a new housing reform proposal developed by a private bipartisan commission will be very kind to the FHA mortgage insurance program.

Canadian housing starts will slow to an annual pace of 190,300 units this year, from 214,827 last year.

Fox Chase Bancorp hired Thomas Petro as president and chief executive in mid-2005 with a mission to turn around a mutual thrift that was fighting to survive.

January Home prices are up 6.2% from a year ago, the largest annual gain since 2006.