Following a series of regulatory and legal challenges to force-placed insurance, the Securities and Exchange Commission asked Assurant, the leading specialty insurance carrier, to quantify the potential financial impact.

The software-based program can be customized to meet each servicers different workflows, thereby enhancing compliance, performance and borrower experience.

Applications to take out a residential mortgage fell 4.3% for the week ending Aug. 24 with refinancings weakening slightly.

Mortgage bankers issued $32 billion of Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities in July down almost 8% from June. Still, the market remains strong.

The REO market remains hot, and so are business process management solutions that enable servicers to gain control of processes.

The tamper-evident electronic mortgage seal gets put to the test.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported that banks and thrifts originated $186 billion of closed-end single-family loans in the second quarter through retail means, compared to $170 billion in the first.

The roots of the mortgage crisis stretch back to 1996 with the introduction of Freddie Mac’s Loan Prospector and Fannie Mae's Desktop Underwriter automated underwriting systems.

The Case-Shiller house price index rose 2.3% in both June and May on a nonseasonally adjusted basis and all 20 cities featured in the index posted month-over-month increases in both June and May.

The “real” homeownership rate has fallen to its lowest level in almost 50 years.

Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan explains the impact that housing is having on the U.S. economy.

The National Association of Realtors is forecasting that the vacancy rate on multifamily dwellings will fall to 4.2% this quarter compared to 5.6% a year ago as high demand outstrips supply.

Lender Processing Services and RentRange will offer rental property income data to mortgage servicers, investors and others who need it to make informed decisions about distressed housing assets.

Residential Capital Corp./GMAC Mortgage has hired Steve Hewins as vice president in charge of vendor strategy and governance.

Data integrity is the key to compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act.

Problems with the newly installed System for Award Management forced the General Services Administration to allow FHA lenders to use an old system to check the federal government’s “Excluded Parties List.”

Freddie Mac reported that it purchased $32.5 billion in loans from mortgage lenders in July, down from $44.1 billion in June.

MountainView Capital Holdings this week inked a deal to buy Clayton IPS, the independent pricing service division of Clayton Holdings.

Wells Fargo ranked first among all GNMA servicers in the second quarter with a 30% market share.

A better method of moving electronic files is available, even as the industry waits on 4506-T electronic authorizations.