New Home Sales Fell 9.2% In January
New home sales were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of about 494,000 units as of January - a decrease of 9.2% compared with...
MBA: Mortgage Application Volume Fell 4.3%
After adjusting to account for the President's Day holiday, mortgage application volume decreased 4.3% during the week ended Feb. 19, according to the Mortgage...
loanDepot Introduces Product And Consumer Experience Team
Non-bank mortgage lender loanDepot Inc. has launched its consumer experience and product development team with the addition of Tim Von Kaenel as chief product...
Flagstar Bank Hires Executives To Lead Home Lending Channel
Don Bleuenstein and Jens Lovell have joined Flagstar Bancorp Inc. as sales director of the home lending eastern U.S. division and sales director of...
HomeUnion: Best And Worst U.S. Markets For SFR Investments
HomeUnion, an online real estate investment management firm, has released a ranking of the most and least favorable single-family rental (SFR) markets measured by...
National Mortgage Lender Brings New Hire To Austin Office
Adam Bennett has joined national mortgage lender New Penn Financial as a branch manager in the company's Austin, Texas, office.
As branch manager, Bennett will...
NAR: Existing-Home Sales In January Highest In Six Months
Existing-home sales, including single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, were at an adjusted annual rate of 5.47 million in January - a slight increase...
Platinum Home Mortgage Adds Lender To Correspondent Lending Group
Justin Bustamante has joined Platinum Home Mortgage Corp. as an account executive in the company's correspondent lending group.
In this position, Bustamante will assist the...
WFG Promotes Janell Downing To Senior Vice President, Agency Manager For Midwest
Janell Downing, an industry veteran with over three decades of title experience, has been appointed senior vice president and agency manager for the Midwest...
Freddie Mac: Mortgage Rates Held Steady This Week
Fixed mortgage rates remained more or less flat during the week ended Feb. 18, according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey.
The average rate...
RealtyTrac: TRID Dragged Down Fourth-Quarter Mortgage Originations
Although 2015 wasn’t a bad year for mortgage originations in comparison with 2014 - total volume increased 1% for the year - it could...
Ellie Mae Hires Former ClosingCorp SVP As Vice President Of Partner Development
Bob Hart, the former senior vice president (SVP) of business development for ClosingCorp, has joined Ellie Mae as its new vice president of partner...
Ellie Mae: Average Number Of Days To Close Increased Again In January
... and it appears that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rules are mostly to blame.
DocMagic’s Compliance Guarantee To Protect Lenders From TRID Violations
DocMagic Inc., a provider of loan document preparation, compliance, e-sign and e-delivery solutions to the mortgage industry, reports that it is developing an extensive...
Housing Starts Fell 3.8% In January
Builder confidence falls as economic uncertainty abounds.
MBA: Mortgage Application Volume Increased 9.3%
After increasing 9.3% the previous week, mortgage application volume increased 8.2% on an adjusted basis during the week ended Feb. 12, according to the...
Veros Adds ‘Preview’ Feature To PATHWAY For EAD Portal Submissions
In order to help Federal Housing Administration (FHA) lenders conduct their appraisal quality control checks earlier in the loan endorsement process, Veros Real Estate...
Early Warning Now Does Mortgage Loans
Fraud prevention solutions provider Early Warning has added automated verification of assets and income for home loans to its existing verification platform.
That means mortgage...
Survey: Most Homeowners Open To Using HELOCS For Home Improvements
A survey recently conducted by mortgage lender TD Bank reveals that nearly 60% of U.S. homeowners would use a home equity line of credit...
ValuAmerica Appoints Michael Ehms VP Of Business Development
Michael Ehms has joined ValuAmerica, a national title agency, appraisal management company and technology provider, as vice president of business development.
In this position, Ehms...