Technology

MortgageKeeper Referral Services has added resources to aid homeowners in case of natural disaster.

New home sales rose 1.5% in March after a 7.6% decline in the prior month.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have begun the preliminary work to update the required data points and format that lenders submit to the GSEs’ respective automated underwriting systems.

House prices rose in February by 0.7% from the prior month, according to a house price index based on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchase mortgage transactions.

The California Association of Realtors reported that the share of REO and short sales fell to 29% of sales in March from 33% in February.

Single-family home sales in Florida increased 9% in March over the same month last year while pending sales increased 23%.

Mortgage data is more valuable when delivered through the cloud because several people can use the data at the same time.

ISGN Corp. and TruPoint Partners have partnered to develop a “mock audit” to help lenders prepare for a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau examination.

Moody's Investors Service, Kroll and Fitch have assigned their respective top expected/preliminary ratings to four classes of residential mortgage-backed securities issued by Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-6.

Sales of previously owned homes slipped 0.6% in March from February as the supply of homes on the market edged up for the second month in the row.