New loan applications increased by just over 6% for the week ending Dec. 7 with refinancings topping 84% of all new business, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The Dec. 18 online and live auction features six properties that offer central locations, easy access to major interstate and mass transit as well as great visibility for potential buyers.

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods expects the Home Affordable Refinance Program will continue boosting gain-on-sale margins for mortgage bankers.

The secret is out: jumbo lending is hot.

A relatively new government website known as SAM that FHA lenders must check before making a loan has been slowing the origination process since Thanksgiving, particularly for lenders doing multiple searches.

The mortgage market is responding to future uncertainty by restructuring their processes.

Mobile search patterns are not like those of desktop searchers.

Consumers National Bank is using a Web-based loan origination system from LendingQB to operate its mortgage lending business.

Real estate agents using RES.NET’s agent portal now have access to a tool that streamlines offer negotiation activities resulting in faster closings.

Hacktivists who claim responsibility for a series of cyberattacks on at least ten banks worldwide are vowing to reprise the electronic assaults on five of them in the coming days.

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Several megabanks—including Wells Fargo and Bank of America—have exited the reverse market over the past 18 months, leaving the business to an array of nonbanks and medium-size lenders.

Certain federal- and state-level regulatory measures are bound to affect how mortgage lender-servicers do business in the Northeast.

Tim Duncan, who was a key player in helping Elizabeth Warren form the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is launching a new mortgage company.

PennyMac is experiencing explosive growth in the correspondent channel.

Loan Value Group has begun to facilitate the delivery of government-funded principal reductions in an effort aimed at getting the relief to qualifying underwater borrowers in Arizona more quickly.

The correspondent channel accounted for 49% of Wells Fargo’s residential production in the third quarter.

There is a lot of attention focused on single-family homes by investors looking for a great cash flow with high appreciation potential over the next few years.

Consumers want things done quicker, while regulators want them done right; both will hold the originator responsible.

Patricia Rauch has joined appraisal technology provider Global DMS in the newly created position of chief operating officer.