Appraisal professional Mike Ford: “We’re not permitted to consider the race of the residents, their sexual orientation, their age or their gender.”

Not racial bias, but geographical incompetence is the reason appraisers mar home valuations, according to agents interviewed by IMF.

Incenter Mortgage Advisors is known mostly as a servicing broker and whole loan trader, but through an affiliate it wants to help nonbank mortgage firms tap the student loan market. Will it fly?

Rohit Chopra’s nomination is in a holding pattern. Meanwhile, the CFPB is losing two high-profile enforcement attorneys and the DFPI its commissioner.

The real estate finance company completed its merger with Anworth and reported strong first-quarter results on Freddie Mac business.

No purchase price was revealed. It marks at least the second known correspondent sale of the spring/summer season...

Roughly 14.1% of borrowers who applied for an FHA-insured purchase loan were turned down last year, compared to 12.4% in 2019.

The renewed emphasis on the correspondent channel was widespread, with nearly every lender in the group increasing originations on a sequential basis.

EnerBank — a subsidiary of CMS Energy — has funded $11.6 billion in home improvement projects since 2002 and currently boasts loan balances of $2.8 billion.

A slowdown in refinance activity was responsible for the May swoon.