An Oregon homeowner’s fight against Merscorp Holdings was revived after a state appellate court reversed a lower court’s decision to rule in favor of the owner of the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems before the case went to trial.

LOS providers who offer, and lenders who select, an EDM product that’s crafted and maintained by a team of skilled craftsmen, not a “Jack of all trades” won’t be disappointed; even after the check is cashed.

Mortgage Technology will commend the lenders and servicers that use technology to improve processes, provide exceptional customer service and increase business with its annual list of the Top Tech-Savvy Lenders and Servicers. The deadline for all nominations is 6 p.m. EDT Thursday, August 16, 2012.

FraudGuard and PredProtect have received assessments from SecureInfo that shows both of these tools have low security risk.

June statistics from the California Association of Realtors show home sales experienced solid gains annually and home prices reached their highest level since August 2010.

The Census Bureau reported that single-family starts rose to a 539,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate in June, up from a 515,000 rate in May.

While the basic mortgage jobs picture has been flat, there are variations within it. Mortgage banking firms have lost 6,000 jobs, while mortgage brokerages have gained 6,000 jobs.

With the bucket-load of regulations coming down the pike toward mandatory implementation in our industry, it’s time to track, measure and quantify experience while simultaneously speeding the process, complying with changing rules, and recovering the most dollars.

The economy is in the tank and thousands of people are out of work. In the U.S., given the slow recovery, the housing crisis continues.

Since the start of this year, house prices have risen 2.5% through April 30.

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Lenders Compliance Group is using Veros Real Estate Solutions' collateral integrity analysis product for prefunding and post-closing audits, early payment defaults, high default due diligence, as well as warehouse bank and portfolio reviews.

During a conference call one analyst suggested that Wells Fargo could originate $170 billion of single-family loans in the third quarter based on its conversion rate of applications-to-closed loans.

Merscorp Holdings will provide the state of Delaware’s Department of Justice Consumer Protection Unit a semi-annual report detailing results of its internal audits.

CoreLogic and FICO released the FICO Mortgage Score Powered by CoreLogic, a new offering that evaluates the traditional credit data from the national credit data repositories and the supplemental consumer credit data in the CoreLogic CoreScore.

Higher repurchase demands trimmed Wells Fargo’s take from its mortgage banking unit in the second quarter, but net profit gains from residential lending and loan sales rose a stunning 200% from the same period a year ago.

As California goes, so goes the nation? Let’s hope not, at least as to legislation that will make California the first state in the nation to codify provisions of the national mortgage settlement.

The delinquent loan inventory at Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. fell by less than 1,000 loans during June, as there were 154,973 loans in the inventory at the start of the month and MGIC received 11,200 new notices of delinquency in June.

Foreclosure activity fell 8% in the second quarter from a year ago due to a decline in bank repossessions, according to RealtyTrac’s midyear foreclosure market report.

The credit-score company VantageScore Solutions, which beat an antitrust lawsuit last year, is taking precautions to avoid repeating the experience.