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Bottom-tier housing prices are escalating at rates competitive with top-tier properties, and in some cases surpassing them greatly.

The cases revolve around accusations stemming from 2012 that Ocwen lied to the FHA about its compliance with HAMP rules, as well as FHA insurance programs.

The U.K. voted 52 percent to 48 percent to leave the European Union‒‒the much anticipated, but also much feared “Brexit”‒‒in a move that has had immediate effects on global and American markets.

The nation's 33 largest bank holding companies were tested for their ability to lend under severely adverse economic scenarios that include an increase of 5 percentage points in the unemployment rate.

Compared with a decade ago, single-family home-purchase originations have been cut in half. But the denial rate is way down, too.

The pace of new home sales dropped off in May, but that may have been expected due to April's large jump.

What do near-historic low mortgage interest rates mean for the mortgage industry?

Title agents are significantly more optimistic in Q2 than last quarter about the volume of both purchase and refinance transactions in the year ahead, according to a recent survey.

A group of 26 stakeholders in the housing industry has written a letter to FHFA Director Mel Watt asking him to either reduce or eliminate loan-level price adjustments (LLPAs) and guarantee fees charged by the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The Bureau reported violations due to deficient technology and process breakdowns as a result of numerous examinations of mortgage servicers since the CFPB’s new servicing rules went into effect in January 2014.