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The housing regulator has been mum on details about its reshuffling, but Secretary Scott Turner has emphasized mission-critical functions would persist. View the full article

Regulators should approve the deal because post-merger, the servicing market remains fragmented and the mortgage origination business is even more dispersed. View the full article

Publicly traded lenders, including UWM, Rocket Mortgage and Guild Mortgage, saw personnel expenses increase significantly throughout last year. View the full article

The measure applies to mortgages closed in the months prior to the Southern California wildfires, which are now experiencing early-stage distress. View the full article

In all, 42% of sales in the borough were financed, a larger share than in many recent quarters in the cash-heavy Manhattan market. View the full article

Purchase applications reached their highest level since January despite the average 30-year fixed rate falling by just 1 basis point last week. View the full article

An Internal Revenue Service division that helps authorize the release of tax transcripts used in lending through form 4506-C is tied to core functions. View the full article

Offices, apartment buildings and retail locations in Los Angeles face a tangle of difficulties as the smoke clears from January's wildfires. High on the list is inadequate insurance, a common problem in California. View the full article

A Colorado regulator earlier this year revoked the license of the appraiser responsible for the 2021 evaluation at the center of the government's suit. View the full article

The average American must earn almost $117,000 a year in order to afford a median priced property as prices keep rising, a Bankrate analysis found. View the full article

Baby boomers made up the largest share of home purchasers in 2024, as the percentage of millennial buyers declined, the National Association of Realtors found. View the full article

Pacific Residential Mortgage discovered the ransomware incident just weeks after the successful completion of its merger with an Ohio-based lender. View the full article

The deal is composed of 11,547 seasoned performing and reperforming loans that are first and second lien. Loan servicing includes a 180-day chargeoff feature. View the full article

Judges ruled that Atlantic Trust and District Lending continuing to send loans to UWM after the controversial amendment equates to accepting the ultimatum. View the full article

The global asset manager wanted access to the smaller company's residential mortgage credit strategies, which will become available to a larger investor base. View the full article

This transaction, following Rocket's purchase of Redfin, could be the start of the creation of large players to compete with the likes of Zillow. View the full article

The deal was highly vetted with regulators following the publicly traded company's failure to obtain approval in a past agreement, an executive said. View the full article

Slow repair cycle times, widespread premium increases and the volume of catastrophic events all contribute to dissatisfaction, according to the U.S. Property Claims Satisfaction Study from J.D. Power. View the full article

Former Capital One Multifamily executive Grace Huebscher departed recently and the Federal Housing Finance Agency appointed a replacement amid broader reform. View the full article

The deal, expected to close by the end of 2025, will place Mr. Cooper CEO Jay Bray as president and CEO of Rocket Mortgage. View the full article

Amir Syed, mortgage coach and social media powerhouse, worked at Lower for a little over a year helping to build out and nurture the mortgage lender's origination team. View the full article

The top five banks had a combined loan volume of more than $1 trillion held in portfolio at the end of Q4 2024. View the full article