Is pre-approval truly the first step in loan origination? The folks at Churchill Mortgage do not think so. There is a common misconception about “pre-approval” and its importance in the lending process, says Matt Clarke, Churchill’s chief financial officer and chief operating officer. He views pre-approval as nothing more than taking a mortgage loan application and approving it for underwriting. …

Knock.com, a fledgling online real estate service, has announced a novel way of buying and selling homes based on a “trade in.”

It’s been a few months since hurricanes Irma and Harvey pounded coastal areas of the U.S. mainland, but the storms are continuing to wreak havoc on many affected homeowners. The latest data from Black Knight, in Jacksonville, finds that 90-day delinquencies have jumped due to the hurricanes’ impact.

Among residential servicers, Ditech ranked 11th at yearend, according to figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance.

Among servicers, Ditech ranked 11th at Dec. 31, according to figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance.

Despite declining volume and the rollercoaster of hedge accounting, most banks turned in positive results on their mortgage-banking activities in 2017, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of fourth-quarter earnings reports from publicly-held companies.

Retail mortgage-origination platforms tend to generate lower-risk mortgages than other channels, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of home loans delivered into Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities.

The $3.42 trillion of servicing held by nonbanks was up 20.7 percent from December 2016…

Over the past two years, PHH has sold off large chunks of its MSR portfolio, while remaining as the subservicer of record…

The ruling is a huge win for the mortgage industry, said former CFPB attorney Benjamin Olson, now a partner at the Buckley Sandler law firm…