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Stonegate Mortgage Corp., a publicly traded mortgage company focused on originating, financing, and servicing U.S. residential mortgage loans, recently added three new executives to their team.

Negative equity is down to 13.1 percent nationwide, but is still a nagging problem choking real growth and limiting new inventory, according to a new report by Zillow.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray called attention to the mortgage industry, particularly lenders, in a speech on Wednesday, where he highlighted some of the progress and pitfalls that the housing market faces.

Lenders One Interim CEO Dan Goldman sat down with MReport to explain why lenders are so optimistic in the housing market today and what they can do to reach untapped borrowers and grow their origination business.

Commentary is an ongoing series on theMReport.com that focuses on opinions, ideas, and insights from experts across mortgage banking. Paul Anastos, President of Mortgage Master, explains the evolution that the housing market has gone through over the last few decades and how lending has changed for the better.

Stock market and Treasury yield volatility continued last week and so did the downward trend of mortgage rates, which opened up more opportunities for refinancing, but mortgage applicants did not take advantage of theses savings.

Radian Group Inc. announced Wednesday that it has appointed Jeff Tennyson to serve as interim president of Clayton Holdings LLC, the company's principal mortgage and real estate services subsidiary.

Many in the mortgage industry are beginning to question how much longer will rates remain low. See what economists are predicting the Fed do this month at their monetary policy meeting. 

For some time there have been questions surrounding how servicers can protect the lien rights of their investors with regard to the lien position of Homeowner Association properties, but there are ways to avoid this conflict.

Genworth Mortgage Insurance, a subsidiary of Genworth Financial, Inc., recently announced that it has standardized and simplified its Borrower Paid Mortgage Insurance (BPMI) premium structure.