Technology

A panel of 49 economic forecasters expects housing starts will hit 1 million this year and 1.18 million in 2014 as home prices continue to rise.

Credit unions are showing a healthy 5.2% annual growth in lending, but the overall loan-to-share ratio, 57.1%, remains at its lowest point since 1994.

ISGN Corp. appointed former Xerox executive Nancy Alley as its chief product officer.

The qualified mortgage rule is a special carve-out to the ability to repay requirement.

Home sales probably rose in April to the highest level in more than three years, extending gains in residential real estate that are giving the U.S. expansion a lift.

The state of e-mortgages is now poised to take a quantum leap forward.

San Francisco is considered to be the least affordable market in the nation for housing.

New compliance requirements don’t typically inspire the most innovative technology enhancements in the mortgage industry. But the upcoming overhaul of borrower disclosure forms has created an opportunity to re-engineer the way lenders and title companies execute mortgage closings, according to Document Systems Inc. CEO Dominic Iannitti.

In the past two years, 85% of Hispanics were engaged in online banking, compared to 74% of all U.S. households.

LendingQB has put the guidelines from four of the six private mortgage insurers onto its loan origination system’s automated underwriting engine.