Technology

Mortgage application volume was higher than the week before as both refinance and purchase activity increased.

Essent Group Ltd., the mortgage-insurer backed by George Soros and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., is beating older rivals in the stock market as the U.S. plans to tighten regulation of the industry.

Online real estate marketplace Auction.com has appointed Mindy Heppberger as chief legal officer.

HomeUnion named Jamie Sipila as its senior director of product management.

Mortgage bankers reported a sharp increase in quarterly profits at the end of June, according to data released Tuesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Despite overall foreclosure inventory falling in July, foreclosure starts were up for the third consecutive month, according to a "first look" report from Black Knight Financial Services.

New rules are illuminating a once-shadowy market where servicers can be quick to modify loans and may have few qualms about principal reduction. Discounts or equity make such flexibility possible.

Investors are moving their focus into California's less expensive, more rural areas, according to a California Association of Realtors survey.

A drop in homeownership among the native-born population, coupled with a pickup in the pace of homeownership gains among those who immigrated to the U.S. have narrowed the homeownership gap between the two demographics during the last decade, according to Fannie Mae research.

Altisource, a mortgage data company in Luxembourg, has opened a new technology campus in Bangalore, India.