Parkside Lending, LLC, recently announced it will now go to 95 percent LTV without mortgage insurance on its expanded Jumbo program. The company designed the new Jumbo offering to help creditworthy borrowers with a down payment or equity as low as 5 percent fit into a traditional Jumbo loan.

First American Financial Corp., recently announced that its DataTree property research solution is the first to offer a comprehensive collection of residential building characteristic data for Orange County, California properties.

The majority of metro housing markets are showing signs of health, which will make for sustainable growth in the near-term, according to Nationwide's Health of Housing Markets Report.

Lenders across the U.S. appear to be offering borrowers a second chance at obtaining a mortgage by originating more subprime mortgages for borrowers with credit scores under 620.

As more consumers catch up on their mortgage payments, employment progresses, and home prices rebound, the housing market continues to improve and exhibit more stability.

Mortgage loans declined from 8.7 million to 6.0 million, or by 31 percent in 2014 compared to the previous year, mostly due to a drop in refinancing.

Ambiguity and/or delays in the loan modification process were a frequent subject of the monthly complaints report and mortgage credit access will be expanded to rural areas.

First-time buyers comprised 56.9 percent of primary owner-occupied home purchase mortgages with a government guarantee in August 2015, up from the 54.5 percent share last August, the American Enterprise Institute reported in their First-Time Buyer Mortgage Share Index.

As the job market continues to improve and buyers move in on a limited supply of homes, home prices increased in July, the Federal Housing Finance Agency reported Tuesday.

Housing market home values are leveling off, but there are still a few markets that are struggling to escape recession times, according to Zillow's August Real Estate Market Report.