Technology

The Metro Orlando housing market experienced its seasonal cooling-down period in January, with prices and sales down from the previous month.

Users of Ellie Mae's self-hosted loan origination system will soon have to make a choice: migrate to the software-as-a-service version of Encompass or switch technology providers altogether.

Confidence among homebuilders decreased in February to the lowest level in four months as winter weather prevented some prospective buyers from touring new developments.

With less than three weeks to go before new financial assessments for reverse mortgages became mandatory, the Federal Housing Administration announced Thursday that it will delay their effective date due to technical issues.

Just three years ago, CEO David Nelms heralded the purchase of LendingTree Loans as a milestone in Discover's evolution from a strict credit-card company to a broad-based consumer lender. Now he is hinting that it might exit the mortgage business.

For over a third of millennials, first comes home then comes marriage, according to a recent study.

Buying a home in California became slightly more within reach in the last quarter of 2014 compared with the quarter prior, but affordability fell overall year-to-year.

Amid a growing investor appetite for risk, efforts to standardize private-label securities are key to helping ensure the market's healthy return.

Ellie Mae reported fourth-quarter earnings of $4.3 million, more than double that of the same period in 2013.

Applications for new-home purchases increased by nearly a third in January compared to the month prior, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.