Technology

Mortgages serviced by large national and federal savings banks supervised by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency performed better in the first quarter than a year earlier.

The average for the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage jumped 53 basis points this week to its highest level in almost two years.

In an effort to simplify its mortgage process and improve compliance, BOK Financial has chosen DocuTech’s mortgage loan document software.

Mortgage purchases by Freddie Mac slipped in May for the second month in a row as refinancing activity continued to decline.

In this segment of a roundtable discussion from the 2013 Mortgage Bankers Association’s National Fraud Issues Conference, the panelists explain how a closing agent is now doing a vendors job verifying the information that is submitted on a loan application.

Some lenders are still operating under the old “fix it later” mentality.

The Miami Beach home of Centrust’s former chairman David Paul was sold for $30 million.

The Mortgage Bankers Association has teamed up with AllRegs to create an index that measures the supply of mortgage credit at the outer boundaries of the spectrum.

Both delinquency and foreclosure rates hit new post-housing crisis lows through the end of May, according to Lender Processing Services.

Demand for valuation analytics lead LoanLogics and Platinum Data Solutions into a partnership that links loan performance reporting to collateral valuation technology.