Technology

Every successful lender is familiar with those periods when an operations staff that had previously been working feverishly on a big pipeline of loans is suddenly faced with much less work.

Hiring in the mortgage industry slowed in August, as small lenders added just a few hundred workers to their payrolls, but still managed to increase their headcount for the fourth month in a row.

Mortgage credit availability remained unchanged in September, according to data released Thursday by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Mortgage rates dipped slightly for the week ending Oct. 2 despite strong GDP data, according to a weekly report from Freddie Mac.

Too many lenders simply gather their mortgage application data for their annual HMDA report and send it to their regulators without realizing its value, according to David Moffat, president and chief executive of Mortgage TrueView.

AllRegs has begun publishing FHA single-family policies on its publishing platform.

Mortgage applications dropped for the second straight week due to a slight decline in home refinancings.

The risk of property valuation fraud may be on the rise, according to a report released Tuesday by Interthinx.

Commercial real estate lender Walker & Dunlop has agreed to acquire Johnson Capital's loan origination and servicing platform.

Hispanic borrowers have been shut out of the two-year housing recovery more than other groups in California, denying them the chance to rebuild wealth through homeownership.