Technology

Financial institutions that limit their social media strategies to Twitter and Facebook are also limiting their potential.

Delinquency rates on home equity lines of credit edged up in the first quarter compared to the quarter prior.

DebtX priced 55,510 commercial real estate loans with an aggregate principal balance of nearly $766 billion that were collateral for securitizations in May.

American icon Dick Clark died recently at the age of 82. He is best known for hosting the television show “American Bandstand” as far back as the 1950s to three decades at the helm of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” all the way up to this past Dec. 31. But what many people don’t know is that Clark also created and hosted several TV game shows and owned a chain of restaurants.

KossREsource.com, an online information portal for the commercial real estate industry, has gone live. Among the features of the site is an extensive database of debt and equity financing alternatives which is user driven.

Lender Processing Services will acquire mortgage origination technology developer LendingSpace in a deal expected to close later this month.

Closed-escrow home sales in the Las Vegas-Paradise metro area in May jumped 6.1% to 4,829 from the month before, representing a 5.7% increase for the month on a year-to-year basis and a high not seen during that month in six years.

If you think there couldn't possibly be yet another new requirement facing servicers, think again.

The crisis in mortgage lending and the anger that followed the robo-signing scandal has become a crisis of paper.

Some friends and I recently decided to do a "staycation" in Scottsdale, Ariz. The experience was horrendous, but they taught me several valuable lessons about our industry.