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Mortgage application volume continues to seesaw week to week throughout November--this time falling, according to data from the MBA.

Following a rocky October, mortgage applications picked up for the week ending November 9, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey. The survey's Market Composite Index increased 12.6 percent from the previous week. In a commentary, Capital Economics property economist Paul Diggle said "the balance of evidence increasingly suggests that mortgage-dependent buyers are starting to make more of a contribution to the housing recovery."

Origination volumes for commercial and multifamily mortgages declined from Q2 and year-over-year, according to data from the MBA.

The implementation of the Basel III capital rules may be postponed beyond the start of 2013, according to a joint statement released by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the FDIC, and the Federal Reserve. The announcement follows a comment period during which many trade organizations and institutions expressed apprehension about the new requirements.

Mortgage applications continued to decline in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's data.

Mortgage applications fell 12 percent for the week ending October 19, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association.

By clarifying the qualified residential mortgage (QRM) and QM (qualified mortgage) rules, regulators could attract private investors back into the mortgage market, Michael Held, president of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, told the audience at the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Annual Conference and Expo in Chicago Monday.

Mortgage origination is doing even better in 2012 than the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) had anticipated.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) swore in Debra Still, E.J. Burke, and Bill Cosgrove as chairs at the association's 99th Annual Convention & Expo in Chicago, MBA announced Monday.

Government agencies have restructured for better risk protection and to position themselves to climb out of the mortgage and housing crisis of 2006-2009.