Wed, May 9 2012, 2:07 PM
TransUnion said on Tuesday that its National Mortgage Loan Delinquency Rate hit the lowest level in the first quarter of 2012 that it has seen since...
Tue, May 8 2012, 11:02 AM
Mortgage investment Corporation (MGIC) said today that its principal subsidiary, Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation wrote $1.7 billion in new pr...
Tue, May 8 2012, 10:28 AM
House prices reflected in CoreLogic's March Home Price Index which was released today increased on a month-over-month basis for the first time in ne...
Tue, May 8 2012, 10:11 AM
Bank of America is taking the first steps toward fulfilling its obligations under the settlement agreement reached several months again among servic...
Tue, May 8 2012, 9:18 AM
Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) President and CEO David H. Stevens, speaking at the Association's 2012 National Secondary Market Conference & Expo,...
Tue, May 8 2012, 5:00 PM
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shawn Donovan testified before a hearing of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs o...
Mon, May 7 2012, 11:18 AM
Total loan modifications for the first quarter of 2012 fell 31% from the same quarter in 2011 to 207k, though serious delinquencies fell by 7% accordi...
Mon, May 7 2012, 9:57 AM
Fannie Mae today released its National Housing Survey for the month of April. Respondents were slightly more optimistic about the direction of home p...
Mon, May 7 2012, 4:19 PM
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said Monday that it now looks as though the Treasury Department could recoup the total value of the assista...
Mon, May 7 2012, 1:41 PM
Members of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises were told details Monday of the Federal H...
Mon, May 7 2012, 1:33 PM
The number of housing markets on included in the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index was essentially unchan...
Fri, May 4 2012, 10:56 AM
A paper just published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is bound to generate a lot of comment both inside and outside of the mortgage industry....
Fri, May 4 2012, 6:02 PM
The Administration's Housing Scorecard for April claims progress on both home sales and mortgage delinquencies "but continued fragility overall." D...
Thu, May 3 2012, 9:31 AM
Freddie Mac has reported net income for the first quarter of 2012 of $577 million and comprehensive income of $1.79 billion. The financial report, re...
Wed, May 2 2012, 9:42 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey reported this morning that applications for home purchase mortgages inc...
Wed, May 2 2012, 2:25 PM
The March Mortgage Monitor Report from Lender Processing Services (LPS) showed a slight uptick in several measures of foreclosure activity , but over...
Tue, May 1 2012, 11:13 AM
Most measures of foreclosure activity in March remained at February levels but showed significant improvement from one year earlier according to t...
Tue, May 1 2012, 9:30 AM
Another top executive at Freddie Mac has announced his intention to leave the company. Anthony Renzi , the company's executive vice president of Si...
Tue, May 1 2012, 8:05 AM
Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC) has settled a suit with the Department of Justice arising out of a claim that it discriminated against...
Tue, May 1 2012, 4:55 PM
Two Democratic members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform fired another salvo in their continuing battle with Federal Housing F...
Mon, Apr 30 2012, 12:49 PM
The RPX Monthly Housing Market Report says that both home sales and home prices increased strongly in the month ended February 16. The RPX Composite ...
Mon, Apr 30 2012, 6:15 PM
Respondents to the April Federal Reserve Senior Lending Officers Survey were asked a series of special questions about residential mortgage lending...
Mon, Apr 30 2012, 1:28 PM
Vacancy rates for both owner-occupied and rental properties dropped to new recent lows in the first quarter of 2012 according to data released by the...
Thu, Apr 26 2012, 10:52 AM
The National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB) Remodeling Market Index (RMI) decreased one point in the first quarter of 2012 to 48 from an upwar...
Thu, Apr 26 2012, 10:15 AM
Pending home sales rose in March to 101.4 on the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index released this morning. This is a 4...
Thu, Apr 26 2012, 8:11 AM
The frequent reports on foreclosure activity issued by RealtyTrac usually focus on national and state level statistics but a report issued this mornin...
Wed, Apr 25 2012, 10:34 AM
According to Freddie Mac's Monthly Volume Summary for March, the corporations' total mortgage portfolio decreased at an annualized rate of 2.9 per...
Wed, Apr 25 2012, 9:06 AM
Lender Processing Services (LPS) has released an advanced look at data from its March Mortgage Monitor Report due out on May 1. The report provide...
Wed, Apr 25 2012, 9:03 AM
Mortgage interest rates declined to the lowest levels in the history of the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Surve...
Wed, Apr 25 2012, 3:48 PM
Fannie Mae issued guidelines to its servicers today improve the timing and methods of handling pre-foreclosure sales, more commonly known as short ...
Tue, Apr 24 2012, 12:48 PM
New home sales fell sharply in March, dropping to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 328,000, down 7.1 percent from the February's numbers. Howe...
Tue, Apr 24 2012, 12:16 PM
Two major home price indices released this morning indicate that, while home prices are improving the changes are slow and relative . The Federal Ho...
Mon, Apr 23 2012, 10:18 AM
A Virginia real estate developer has pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, making false statements, and conspiracy to commit bank fraud in...
Mon, Apr 23 2012, 5:31 PM
MGIC Investment Corporation reported its First Quarter 2012 financial results this morning in which it said its net losses for the quarter totaled $1...
Thu, Apr 19 2012, 11:39 AM
Existing home sales decreased in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.48 million units, 2.6 percent below the February pace which was adju...
Thu, Apr 19 2012, 5:12 PM
"A change is afoot when it comes to short sales ," RealtyTrac said on Thursday, releasing new data which indicate, based on January's numbers, that...
Thu, Apr 19 2012, 1:55 PM
After two years of bouncing around a bottom, remodeling activity is expected to pick up later this year, according to the Leading Indicator of Remo...
Wed, Apr 18 2012, 11:31 AM
Consumer credit defaults, with the exception of credit cards, fell in March for the third consecutive month S&P and Experian said on Monday. The nati...
Wed, Apr 18 2012, 11:12 AM
The second edition of a new report looking in depth at the mortgage origination market was released today by Ellie Mae. The report for March review...
Wed, Apr 18 2012, 11:05 AM
Alejandro Curbelo, aka Alex Curbelo, a loan officer for Great Country Mortgage Bankers in Miami, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to complicity in a mortgag...
Wed, Apr 18 2012, 10:01 AM
The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) a forward looking index of construction activity, finished March in positive territory for the fifth consecuti...
Wed, Apr 18 2012, 8:47 AM
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been directed by their conservator to streamline procedures for foreclosure alternatives including short sales, deed...
Wed, Apr 18 2012, 8:31 AM
The volume of mortgage refinancing soared during the week ended April 13 according to data released this morning by the Mortgage Bankers Association...
Wed, Apr 18 2012, 4:17 PM
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has released its Principles for Sound Residential Mortgage Underwriting Practices . FSB is an international bo...
Wed, Apr 18 2012, 3:33 PM
A so-called Homeowner Bill of Rights has been introduced to the California State Assembly in the form of seven bills centered primarily on the imp...
Wed, Apr 18 2012, 3:26 PM
A key official of the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) was sworn into office on Wednesday. Maurice Jones assumed the second high...
Tue, Apr 17 2012, 10:44 AM
The U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reported this morning that permits for privately owned housing construct...
Mon, Apr 16 2012, 10:58 AM
Home builders shifted direction this month reversing the growing optimism they had been exhibiting since last fall. The National Association of Hom...
Mon, Apr 16 2012, 10:16 AM
As has been indicated in reports from the Joint Center on Housing and the National Association of Home Builders, home remodeling is emerging as a br...
Mon, Apr 16 2012, 4:39 PM
Three mortgage originators and a title agent have been permanently barred from conducting business with the federal government after they pled guilty ...
