The National Association of Realtors’ leading indicator of future existing-home sales fell 4.3% in December after a four-month updraft.

On Think Big Work Small today, our exuberant analysts report the Federal Reserve is starting play a supervisory role in social media.

The Federal Reserve purchased $14.1 billion of agency mortgage-backed securities over the past week.

New home sales fell 7.3% in December after hitting a two-and-a-half-year high in November.

Purchases of mortgage loans and MBS by Freddie Mac plummeted 46% in December after a huge spike in November.

Secondary market platform Tradeweb released numbers showing to-be-announced mortgage-backed securities trading reached a record high of $24 trillion in 2012.

Clayton Holdings is responding to the growing volume of MSR transactions generated by recent regulatory changes.

Recent settlements between lenders and regulators over alleged foreclosure abuses and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new servicing rules may do little to lift the cloud of litigation risk hanging over lenders.

Solidifi said that its parent company, Real Matters, appointed Robert Courteau to its board of directors.

The Release of the Year Award recognizes a new software, platform, alliance or initiative that’s expected to have the broadest future impact on the mortgage industry. Learn about this year's finalists and see who won the 2012 MT Award.

The No. 2 home lender will market the government's Home Affordable Refinancing Program to hundreds of thousands of customers acquired from MetLife. To speed closings, it's licensing Quicken Loans' technology.

Ernst Publishing has embraced the open source technology movement.

Global DMS has integrated its valuation management software with LendingQB’s loan origination system.

A multimillion-dollar investment by DocMagic to build a new state-of-the-art technology center to enhance its security protocols has been completed.

For the week ended Jan. 18, total application volume was up 7%, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

House prices rose in November for the 10th straight month.

Despite the residential delinquency rate rising in December, the foreclosure presale inventory fell.

Compass Analytics has released a new product that comprises the company’s mortgage analytics suite.

Over seven in ten commercial mortgages originated through a conduit which came due in 2012 and were still outstanding as of July 2011 paid off as scheduled.

Axios Valuation Solutions and its parent company eMortgage Logic said that Tony Pistilli has joined Axios as its new executive vice president and chief appraiser.