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Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac closed at $1.08 per share on Wednesday, continuing a spectacular run-up in recent days.

There was $11.4 billion of premiums written last year by the nation’s title insurance underwriters, up from $9.5 billion one year prior.

Mortgage market participants are typically taking a three step approach to new regulation, according to an Accenture executive.

The average FICO dropped from 749 in January 2013 to 745 in February 2013, the lowest point since May 2012.

The level of home equity held by America’s senior citizens is now at the highest level since the second quarter of 2009, a beneficiary of the recovery in the housing market.

Consumer credit quality remains healthy through the end of February as all rate categories tracked by S&P/Experian decreased on an annual basis.

Collateralized mortgage obligation issuance so far this year has been stronger than last, but volume levels are still shy of what it was in 2011.

Several industry solution providers have led the pack in advancing the quality and availability of mortgage data, analytics and compliance.

Single-family housing starts edged up by 0.5% in February and have been relatively flat since December.

During the fourth quarter of 2012, CoreLogic said approximately 200,000 homeowners returned to a state of positive equity.