Technology

Higher interest rates—up to 5.4% by the end of the year—will take some affordability out of the market.

Frank Danna shows how valuations executives have had to rely on technology and shrewd quality control measures to keep up with upward pressure on appraisal prices.

With the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's QM regulation implementation date looming large, credit unions are gearing up to make sure all of their related software and operating systems ducks are in a row.

Home value data reported by Pro Teck Valuation Services confirm that state regulation will continue to negatively affect property values and the housing recovery.

Job gains during the refinancing boom have evaporated.

Consumers who refinanced their mortgages over the last year or so still saw stacks of paper on the closing table. Now, an unlikely agent of change may help push paperless adoption: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The Transforming Valuations Award recognizes a technology advancement in the appraisal, broker price opinion or automated valuation sectors. Learn about this year's finalists and see who won the 2013 MT Award.

With its ancient technology updated, the agency now is developing a scorecard to spot troubled mortgage-backed securities servicers.

The economy is likely holding back sales activity.

Prices have recovered since the financial crisis and they are now in positive territory again, CoreLogic says.