Technology

Life insurers have gotten burned in commercial lending before, but spectacular credit performance is reinforcing their persistent love of the niche.

Prices for single-family homes rose in 73% of cities in the fourth quarter, fewer than in the previous three months, as surging values in the past two years started to reduce affordability.

Thousands of eligible GSE borrowers could benefit from the federal refinancing program, the Urban Institute estimates.

Banks are looking at a regulatory plan to dramatically expand the data collected on mortgages as a potential ally in their battle to ease separate rules that they say will curb access to credit.

The success of your mortgage origination business may very well depend on making changes to certain components of your operation.

Prepayment speeds fell to 12.4% from 13.7% on a consecutive-quarter basis, according to Sterne Agee analysts, who have raised their fiscal year 2015 estimate for Home Loan Servicing Solutions.

Residential builders boost hiring in January, which could be a good sign for housing market.

The bureau wants to expand data collection to detect troublesome trends and effectiveness of QM rule.

Freddie Mac plans this year to start regularly issuing the credit-linked notes it began using as a form of risk-sharing last year.

Acquiring the mortgage analytics vendor Interthinx would give First American more products and services to match its rival title insurer Fidelity National — and former subsidiary CoreLogic, spun off in 2010.