Housing affordability rose close 1 percentage point up to 74.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to the NAHB's Housing Opportunity Index.

The servicers involved in last year's settlement have provided assistance in the amount of $45.83 billion to 550,000 homeowners, according to the Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight.

Both leading economic indicators and lagging economic indicators for the U.S. economy rose in January, according to the Conference Board.

Lenders One Mortgage Cooperative, a national alliance of mortgage bankers, lenders, and suppliers, announced Tuesday its members will benefit from access to Motivity Solutions' Movation technology at a discounted rate.

There are nearly 400 mandatory inclusionary housing policies designed to low-priced housing within market-rate developments.

Capital Square Management announced last week the introduction of a new venture, Capital Square Real Estate Advisors, LLC, a new investment firm for high net worth investors.

Gibraltar Capital and Asset Management, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Horsham, Pennsylvania-based Toll Brothers, Inc., recently acquired four new loan portfolios totaling more than $33 million.

While the revised Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP), commonly referred to as HARP 2.0, has allowed far more homeowners to refinance than the original version, there remains a large group of eligible homeowners who have yet to take advantage of the program.

Citing changes in regulatory reform due to Dodd-Frank as the driving factor, Edward Jones Mortgage, based in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, will close its doors permanently in April. The office has been writing residential mortgages since 1998 and ceased writing them in January.

One real estate consulting firm has noticed a substantial divide between housing starts and completions and points to labor as the major factor.