StreetLinks Lender Solutions, a unit of Assurant Mortgage Solutions, recently hired Charles Szabo as VP of Operations and Quality Control. StreetLinks also appointed Samir Agarwal as Director of Vendor Administration.

Assurant Field Asset Services, a unit of Assurant Mortgage Solutions, appointed Warner Mizell as VP of Supply Chain Operations.

Mortgage rates and applications had been on a continuous trend of low rates and high applications, but they have now changed course and are heading in an opposite direction.

Tailored credit report and score counseling services are an effective way to reach consumers and improve their credit score, which can ultimately help them obtain a mortgage.

For awhile, loan defects had settled down in the mortgage industry, but they appear to be making their way back into the market due to heightened risk from government loans.

What can be done to close the economic gaps between races and reform the housing finance system in America? Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League and former the Mayor of New Orleans may have an answer.

Affordable monthly mortgage payments, positive home values, and competition are attracting first-time homebuyers to these 10 markets.

Even though the housing sector has shown further improvement, the Federal Open Market Committee dodged another rate increase this month like many in the industry predicted.

Pending home sales returned with a vengeance in March to the highest reading since May 2015, despite inventory deficiencies and rising home prices.

Young homeowners face many barriers of entry in the housing market, but these young buyers are using an alternate source of funding to get a mortgage loan.