Technology

It is a matter of preparing and motivating loan officers, both retail and wholesale.

National Mortgage Insurance Corp. has started issuing commitments, becoming the sixth active private mortgage insurer in operation.

Good communication is all about the sender and the recipient agreeing that they exchanged information and what that information was.

There was virtually no change in the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted Market Composite Index, Refinance Index or seasonally adjusted Purchase Index for the week ended April 19.

Late additions and data gathering issues have added a few names to our list.

MortgageKeeper Referral Services has added resources to aid homeowners in case of natural disaster.

New home sales rose 1.5% in March after a 7.6% decline in the prior month.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have begun the preliminary work to update the required data points and format that lenders submit to the GSEs’ respective automated underwriting systems.

House prices rose in February by 0.7% from the prior month, according to a house price index based on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchase mortgage transactions.

The California Association of Realtors reported that the share of REO and short sales fell to 29% of sales in March from 33% in February.